Members

Butte lab members present and past

Principal Investigator

Manish Butte, MD, PhD

E. Richard Stiehm Endowed Chair, Professor, and Division Chief, Department of Pediatrics

Staff

Alexis Stephens, BS

Clinical Research Coordinator

Sara Meneses

Sara Juliana Meneses Pineda

SRA

Graduate Students

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Greg Whitehill, MD

Clinical Fellow, PhD student

Undergraduate students

Blen Ashebir photo

Blen Ashebir

Undergraduate student researcher

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Brooke Thornton

Undergraduate student researcher

Alumni

Matthew Miller

PhD program in Immunology (IMMP), graduated in 2024

Eta Atolia

Graduated from the UCLA MD/PhD Program (MSTP)

Samantha Jensen

PhD student in Genetics and Genomics

Hannah Jin

UCLA Undergraduate, class of 2025

Bella Machado

UCLA Undergraduate, Class of 2024

Mahdi Hasani, PhD

Project Scientist (collaboration with Song Li Lab)

Rohit Srinivas

UCLA Undergraduate student

Matthew Crowe

UCLA Undergraduate student (2021-23), now at Johns Hopkins

Michael Trump

Michael Trump

Scientific Research Associate I (2022-23), now at Duke University

Jennifer Aron, MD

Postdoctoral fellow, then Project Scientist (2018-22)

Terrie Ahn, MD

Clinical Fellow in Allergy & Immunology (2020-22)

Utku Acar, MD

Clinical Fellow in Allergy & Immunology (2020-22)

Humza Khan

Undergrad, Scientific Research Associate, Stanford MSTP program (MD, PhD)

Valentina Alonso

PhD Program in Immunology

Negin Majedi, PhD

PhD in Bioengineering & UCLA, Post-doctoral Fellow, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony Biosciences

Chanti Bun

Scientific Research Associate (2017-2021)

Christopher Luthers

Rotation Student Winter 2020-21, IMMP, Don Kohn's lab (UCLA)

Kevin Meng

Senior Scientist at BioNTech SE

Anviksha Srivastava

Scientific Research Associate

Andrew Kalra

UCLA Undergraduate student, Research Technician Johns Hopkins University

Naveed Zaman

UCLA Undergraduate student

Mana Sheykhsoltan

MD student

Emily Yang

1st year PhD program in IMMP

Ken Hu, PhD

Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Univ of Texas

Sara Kleinman, MD

Assistant Professor, Stanford Pediatrics, Allergy & Immunology

Irina Gurevich, PhD

Post-doctoral Fellow

Ilan Bocian

Summer High School intern 2017 and 2018

Ian Perrone

PhD program in IMMP (Rotation Student) 2017

Jeff Choi

Resident in Surgery, Stanford University

Bryan Xie

Scientist at 3T Biosciences

Marc A. Bruce, PhD

PhD in Immunology, 2009-2014, CEO and Co-Founder, Microvolution LLC

Andrew Wang, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow 2012-2014

Anuj Patel

Stanford 2016

Yoseph Semma

Medical Student

Kelvin Yang

Product Manager at Capital One

Julia McKechnie

Scientist, Immunology at Icosavax

James Harden

PhD program in Immunology

Amy Liu

Undergraduate researcher (2014-15), Summer Intern, SIMR (2013), 2014

Lynée Turek-Hankins

Undergraduate researcher 2015

Tim Thauland, PhD

Project Scientist

Rina Nagarajan

Scientific Research Associate

Adi de la Zerda, PhD

PhD in Materials Science & Engineering, 2017

Bhavani Sanagavarapu

Summer High School Student (SIMR 2014)

Jianwei Liu, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow, 2010-2012

Nicholas Bayless

PhD Rotation Student, Immunology, 2013

Thomas Keller

PhD Rotation Student, Immunology, 2013

Dara Strauss-Albee, PhD

PhD Rotation Student, 2012

Sarah Denny

PhD Rotation Student, 2012

Keegan Mendonca

Summer Intern 2012 (Lynbrook High School)

Ghezal (Omar) Beliakoff, MS

Lab Manager/Fashion Consultant, 2009-2011

Priyal Fadadu

Summer Intern, 2010, 2012

Rohit Dasgupta

Summer Intern, 2011 (Johns Hopkins)

Isaac Ghansah

Summer Intern, 2011 (Stanford)

Claudia Mariella Lavarreda Pearce

Summer Intern, 2010 (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Dan Garcia

Dan Garcia, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow, 2010-2011

Catherine Le

Undergraduate Student, 2009-2010

Kate Montgomery, PhD

Bioengineering Graduate Student, 2009