People
Principal Investigators
Amar Nijagal, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
Surgical Director, UCSF Pediatric Liver Center

Academic Researchers
Claire Levy, PhD
Specialist
Mo Wu
Associate Specialist
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Julia Nilsson
Postdoctoral Fellows/Scholars
Research Associates
Blaine Rapp, BA
Staff Research Associate I
Deanndria Singleton
Staff Research Associates
Resident Rotation Researchers
Phoebe Miller
Surgery Resident Rotation Researcher
Grad Student Researchers
Jordan Norman
Graduate Student Researcher
Zinal Patel
Graduate Student Researcher
Collaborators
Adam Abate, PhD
Professor, Bioengineering
School of Pharmacy
Bruce Wang, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine
Alumni
Anas Alkhani, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Abdelkader Awad, BS
Staff Research Associate
Arianna Barajas
PUMAS Intern, Summer 2021
Suruthi Baskaran, MS
MS General Surgery
Research Volunteer
Allison Ciccarelli
Volunteer, Summer 2024 & 2025
Muskan Dadral
Volunteer
Rebeca De Paiva Froes Rocha, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Grace Guo
Volunteer, Summer 2021
Daniel B. Hoffman, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Residency Program, 2025
Ashwin Khandare, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Left for industry
Cathrine Korsholm BA
DARE Clinical Research Fellow
Mahati Kotamraju
Research Volunteer
Jamie Lin
Volunteer, Summer 2023
Sarah Mohamedaly, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Residency Program, 2024
Katya Polovina, BS
Research Associate II
Left for industry
Katherine Rosenberg, BA
Staff Research Associate
Left for Keck School of Medicine of USC, Class of 2025
Ryan Steinbach
Volunteer, Summer 2019