Team
Institute Leadership

Debiao Li, PhD
Director

Daniel S. Berman, MD
Medical Director
Faculty

Daniel Berman, MD

Anthony G. Christodoulou, PhD

Ivan Cokic, MD

Alessandro D'Agnolo, MD

Damini Dey, PhD

Zhaoyang Fan, PhD

John D. Friedman, MD

Wei Gao, PhD

Fei Han, PhD

Hui Han, PhD

Debiao Li, PhD

Ramachandran Murali, PhD

Kim-Lien Nguyen, MD

Touseef Ahmad Qureshi, PhD

Gadi Pelled, PhD

Piotr Slomka, PhD

Wafa Tawackoli, PhD

Janet Wei, MD, FACC

Yibin Xie, PhD

Hsin-Jung “Randy” Yang, PhD

Yi Zhang, PhD

Yifang (Jimmy) Zhou, PhD
Research Staff

Natalin Aroyan, MHA
Senior Administrative Assistant

Gloria Arrenquin, MBA
Program Manager

Linda Azab, BS
Research Associate I

Laura Chey, BS
Senior Administrative Assistant

Xiaoyu Da, MS
Research Associate, Molecular/Micro

Matthew Dausch
Research Associate I

Kelli DeJohn, BS
Research Admin Coordinator

Jimmy Fermin, R.T. (R)(N)(CT)(MR)ARRT CNMT, NMTCB(CT), NCT, PET
Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Laurel Gilabert
Clinical Research Associate I

Hsu-Lei Lee, PhD
Research Associate III

Irene Lee, BS, RT
MRI Technologist

Rhona Littman, CCRP
Regulatory Coordinator III

Meng Lu, BS
Research Associate I

Nipun Manral, MS
Clinical Research Data Specialist II

Yasmin Minai
Clinical Research Associate I

Mike Ngo
MRI Technologist

Caroline Park
Clinical Research Associate I

Aryabod Razipour, MD
Research Associate III

Fardad Serry, MS
Research Associate II

Laura Smith, RT, ARRT (PET) NMTCB
Chief MRI Technologist and Imaging Team Leader

Catherine Ubaldo-Prado, MSN-RN, MBA, PHN
Research Nurse III
Project Scientists & Postdocs

Sonja Fenske, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Andrew Lin, MBBS, BMedSci
Postdoctoral Researcher

Janelle Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Sankalp Tikoo, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist
Students & Interns

Tianle Cao, BS
Graduate Student

Karandeep Cheema, BS
Graduate Student

Haitao Chen, BS
Graduate Student

Zihao Chen
Graduate Student

Zengtian Deng
Graduate Student

Genesis Flores
Research Intern

Siobhan Glynn
Graduate Student

Pei Han, BS
Graduate Student

Saba Khan
Research Intern

Shihan Qiu
Graduate Student

Nadia Said
Research Intern

Haoran Sun
Graduate Student

Chaowei Wu
Graduate Student
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