Meeting Participants


AMC Young Investigator and Poster Awards

Congratulations to our 'Young Investigator Award' winners


  • Adrian Aretta
  • Francesca Boscolo Sesillo
  • Constanza Cortes
  • Michael Stec


We also congratulate the winners of this years poster awards


  • Sherin Hashem
  • Cherie Alissa Lynch
  • David Sala Cano
  • Patrick Magrath
  • Eric Carruth
  • Ayla Sessions


List of Participants

This years AMC meeting had over 100 registered participants. You can find more information and a final list of participants in the meeting agenda.
Here are some quick information on our attendees:

Where are they from?


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city

Most of our attendees are located in the following states: California, Arizona and Texas.
Although the majority of registered participants hails from San Diego-based organizations (e.g. UC San Diego, SDSU or the Sanford Burnham Prebys Discovery Institute) and biotech-companies, almost a third joins us from outside of San Diego, most notably from Tucson, Arizona and the Bay Area (San Francisco).


academic vs. industry


One of the goals of this meeting is to connect young researchers to biotech companies. We are happy that this years participation from local and national startups and biotech firms is the highest we've ever had.



List of participants


Name

Institute/Company

Emily Abbotte UC Irvine
Gaurav Agrawal UC San Diego
Sonia Albini Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Angels Almenar UC San Diego
Leonela Amoasii UT Southwestern
Adrian Arrieta San Diego State University
Paul August Icagen
Indroneal Banerjee Abbvie
Monica Bennett Genea Biocells
Matthew Bills University of Arizona
Erik Blackwood San Diego State University Heart Institute
Jordan Blondelle UC San Diego
Rolf Bodmer Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Julius Bogomolovas UC San Diego
Francesca Boscolo Sesillo Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Abby Buchwalter Salk Institute
Katelyn Busse Genea Biocells
James Caldwell San Diego State University Research Foundation
Juliane Campos Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ~ Heart Institute
Sara Carbajo The Scripps Research Institute
Eric Carruth UC San Diego
Alessandra Castaldi UC San Diego
Chao Chen UC San Diego
Ike Chinyere University of Arizona
Yoshitake Cho UC San Diego
Miensheng Chu University of Arizona
Mert Colpan University of Arizona
Brett Colson University of Arizona
Riccardo Contu StemoniX
Constanza Cortes UC San Diego
Andrew D'Lugos Arizona State University
Anabel de la Garza GeneaBiocells
Patrick Desmond UC San Diego
Ramon Diaz Trelles Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Jone Lopez Erauskin Ludwig Institute
Alison Fanton Stemonix
Qingfen Gan Myokarida
Sole Gatto Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Michael Gibbons UC San Diego
David Gokhin Carling Communications
Charles Gray San Diego State University
Cassandra Happe UC San Diego
Sherin Hashem UC San Diego
Melissa Hernandez UC San Diego
Anthony Hessel Northern Arizona University
Michael Hicks UC Los Angeles
Ali Hussaini University of Arizona
Sadie Ingle MyoKardia
Vic Keschrumrus University of Arizona
Jilan Knoblauch VWR International
Shivani Lakkaraju UC San Diego
Stephan Lange UC San Diego
Tania Larrinaga University of Arizona
Tzu-Han Lin UC San Diego
Johan Lindqvist University of Arizona
Marissa Lopez-Pier University of Arizona
Cherie Alissa Lynch Arizona State University
Patrick Magrath UC Los Angeles
Heather Main Genea Biocells
Barbora Malecova Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Valeria Marrocco UC San Diego
Charles Martin Genea Biocells
Marcy Martin UC San Diego
Robert McKernan Genea Biocells
Mei Methawasin University of Arizona
Bradley Nelson UC San Diego
Stefanie Novak University of Arizona
Joanna Palade Arizona State University
Jason Pellman UC San Diego
Christopher Penton Icagen
Suzanne Peterson Genea Biocells
Cullen Pivaroff Genea Biocells
Jesse Placone UC San Diego
Amanda Rickard Genea Biocells
Barry Rothenberg Billups-Rothenberg
David Sala Cano Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Lauren Schultz University of Arizona
Gerburg Schwaerzer UC San Diego
Ayla Sessions UC San Diego
Wonjong Si StemoniX Inc.
Daniel Smith San Diego State University
Stephan Spangenberg Stemonix
Michael Stec Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Takeshi Suetomi UC San Diego
Argus Sun Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
Teri Suzuki Icagen
Kristoffer Svensson UC San Diego
Ivan Tomasic Myokardia Inc.
Jessica Ungerleider UC San Diego
Robbert van der Pijl University of Arizona
Sabine van Dijk University of Arizona
Jesus Villanueva Genea Biocells/SDSU
Geo Vogler Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Tian Wang UC San Diego
Xian Wei Cibiem, Inc
Melody Wilkinson Eppendorf
Ming Yu Myokardia
Michael Yu UC San Diego
Fabian Zanella StemoniX
Jianlin Zhang UC San Diego
Xiaoyu Zhang ACEA Biosciences Inc
Leyna Zhao ACEA Biosciences Inc