Principal Investigators

Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Systems
and Therapeutics & Taube/Koret
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Gladstone Institutes
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Physiology
University of California,
San Francisco

Daniel Finley, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Judith Frydman, PhD
Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Genetics and Biology
Stanford University

Jason Gestwicki, PhD
Professor
University of California, San Francisco

Jeffery Kelly, PhD
Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute

Richard I. Morimoto, PhD
Bill and Gayle Cook
Professor of Biology
Director, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University

Miguel Prado, PhD
Institute Investigator
Proteomics and Proteostasis group
Asturias, Spain
Health Research Institute of Asturias (ISPA)
Chief Scientific Officer

Eugenia Clerico, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Proteostasis Consortium
Team Leaders

Lisa Elia, PhD
Scientific Program Leader II
Gladstone Institutes/UCSF

Suzanne Elsasser, PhD
Research Associate in Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Dan Garza, PhD
Scientific Coordinator
Scripps Research Institute

Miguel Prado, PhD
Principal Investigator
ISPA Institute, Spain

Evan Powers, PhD
Principal Investigator
Scripps Research Institute

Reese Richardson
Graduate Student
Northwestern University

Alejandro Rodriguez Gama, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University

Thomas Stoeger, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University

Xiaojing Sui, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University
External Advisors

Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD
Professor Developmental and Molecular Biology
Robert and Renée Belfer Chair for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Co-director of the Einstein Institute for Aging Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

Kay Hofmann, PhD
Professor
Institute for Genetics
University of Cologne

Ralph (Randy) Nixon, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
NYU Langone Health

Alfred Vertegaal, PhD
Professor Cell Biology
Leiden University Medical Center
Principal Contributors

Juliana Abramovich
Research Technician
Stanford University

Naufa Amirani, BS
Bioinformatics Software Engineer II
Gladstone Institutes

Ranen Aviner, PhD
Research Scientist
Stanford University

Natália Barbosa, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Laura Bott, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University

Emma Carroll, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco

Ching-Chieh (Ian) Chou, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Beatrice Costa, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gladstone Institutes

Zohreh Faghihmonzavi, MS
Senior Research Associate
Gladstone Institutes

Sue Fox
Research Lab Manager
Northwestern University

Vivek Gobal Ramaswamy
Software Engineer III
Gladstone Institutes

Kevin Goncalves, BS
Graduate Student
Stanford University

Rebekah Gullberg, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Brian Hodge, PhD
Specialist
University of California, San Francisco

Austin Holub, MS
Research Engineer I
Gladstone Institutes

William Hou, MS
Graduate Student
The Scripps Research Institute

Julia Kaye, PhD
Scientific Program Leader III
Gladstone Institutes

Roy Kurtzbard
PhD Student (jointly)
University of Cambridge/Northwestern University

Sergio Labra, MS
Graduate Student
The Scripps Research Institute

Jae Ho Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Stella (Kyunga) Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Scripps Research Institute

Ting-Ting (Tina) Lee, PhD
Research Technician
Stanford University

Angel Madero, BS
Graduate Student
Stanford University

Daniel Maeso, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
ISPA Institute, Spain

Patricia Martinez Botía, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
ISPA Institute, Spain

Vincent Masto, BS
Graduate Student
Stanford University

Fabián Morales-Polanco, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Kwadwo Opoku-Nsiah, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Joao Paulo, PhD
Instructor
Harvard Medical School

Rebecca Phend, MS
Project Administrator, Sr.
Northwestern University

Sivan Pinto, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Derek Rhoades, PhD
Staff Scientist
The Scripps Research Institute

Kai Richter, PhD
Research Fellow in Cell Biology (INT)
Harvard Medical School

Bryan Ryder, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco

Piere Rodriguez Aliaga, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Ivana Serrano Lachapel, BS
Graduate Student
Stanford University

Kaushik Sridhar, MS
Research Engineer III
Gladstone Institutes

Ee Phie Tan, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
The Scripps Research Institute

Geng -Tiger- Tian, PhD
Research Associate in Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Thomas Volpe, PhD
Senior Research Associate
Northwestern University

Shijie Wang, PhD
Scientist
Gladstone Institutes

Qiang Xiao, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
The Scripps Research Institute

Leonard Yoon, BA
Graduate Student
The Scripps Research Institute

Anan Yu, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Northwestern University

Proteostasis Consortium Retreat- May 2022 at The Gladstone Institutes
Proteostasis Consortium Retreat- May 2022 at The Gladstone Institutes

Proteostasis Consortium Retreat- May 2023 at Northwestern University
Proteostasis Consortium Retreat- May 2023 at Northwestern University