Lab Members

Jordan is a PhD postdoctoral fellow studying mechanisms through which Butyrophilin2A2 regulates pathogenic immune responses to promote long-term graft survival in mice.

Rashmi performs translational studies in heart transplant recipients focused on understanding the effects of anti-IL-6 receptor therapy on transplant outcomes.

Tiffany is taking off time from her busy clinical surgery rotations to advance her scientific research experience. She is performing studies in murine models and assessing the impact of the cGAS-STING pathway and the exonuclease TREX1 on heart transplant survival.

Pranali is an experienced translational PhD immunologist who oversees and helps to direct and interpret all projects in the Heeger Lab.

Ben is an experienced research specialist who also functions as the manager of the Heeger Lab.

Brianna is an enthusiastic research associate who performs translational experiments on samples obtained from subjects enrolled in our clinical trials.

Erin is an experienced research associate who performs translational studies on samples obtained from subjects enrolled in our clinical trials.

Cherry is a recent UCLA graduate (2025) and is assisting with RNAseq studies on samples obtained from subjects enrolled in our clinical trials.

Jacob assists with all aspects of murine and human studies performed in the lab including image analysis and quantification.

Pak oversees the bioinformatics in the Heeger Lab including analysis of RNAseq and spatial transcriptomics.