This is a list of previous members of the Miller Lab, their years in the lab and their current positions, showing that everybody eventually gets a job!

GRADUATE STUDENTS

1985-89 James Picado-Leonard (Ph.D. in Endocrinology, 1989; winner, 1987 Western Student Medical Research Comm. Award in Endocrinology; winner, 1989 E.E. Osgood Award for Predoctoral Research from the Western Section, AFCR; now Head, Program in Diabetes, Arena Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA)

1988-92 Chris C. D. Moore (Ph.D. in Endocrinology 1993, M.D. 1996, both at UCSF; Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle, WA)

1996-97 Tim C. Lee (Medical student: 1999 Medical Student Research Award from the Society for Pediatric Research; now Pediatrician with Camino Medical Group, Sunnyvale, CA)

2006-08 Larissa G. Gomes, MD (PhD in Endocrinology 2009, U. São Paulo, Brazil)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

1981-82 Seppo Leisti, M.D. (Executive Director, Orton Hospital and Foundation for the Disabled, Helsinki, Finland)

1982-86 Bon-chu Chung, Ph.D. (1985 Award for Postdoctoral Fellows, American Society for Human Genetics; Director General, Dept. of Life Sciences, National Science Council, and Distinguished Research Fellow (Professor), Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

1983-86 Karla J. Matteson, Ph.D. (Prof. Medical Genetics and Pathology, and Co-Director, Developmental Genetics Center, Univ. Tennessee; Executive Director, American Board of Medical Genetics)

1983-84 John E. Morin, Ph.D. (Staff Scientist, Wyeth Laboratories: Philadelphia, PA)

1985-86 Raimo Voutilainen, M.D. (Prof. and Chairman, Dept. of Pediatrics, U. of Kuopio, Finland)

1985-87 Bernard Silverman, M.D. (formerly Assoc. Prof. Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology, Northwestern U; now Medical Director, Alkermes Inc. Cambridge, MA)

1986-88 Yves Morel, M.D., Ph.D. (Fogarty Intl. Fellow; 1989 M. M. Grumbach Award for Excellence in Research; Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology, Univ. Lyon, France)

1987-91 Steven Brentano, Ph.D. (Amplification Research Team Director, GenProbe Inc., San Diego, CA)

1987-91 James Bristow, M.D. (1991 Pfizer Scholar; NIH K08 Clinical Investigator Award, now Professor Pediatrics, UCSF, and Senior Scientist, Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute and Dept. of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, CA)

1987-89 Sharyn Solish, M.D. (1989 David W. Smith Pediatric Trainee Award, Western Society for Pediatric Research; private practice)

1987-89 Yufei Shi, M.B. (Cheng Scholar, People's Republic of China; Senior Scientist (Assoc. Prof), Dept of Genetics, King Faisal University, Riyad, Saudi Arabia)

1987-91 Stephen E. Gitelman, M.D. (1990 David W. Smith Pediatric Trainee Award, Western Society for Pediatric Research; Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF)

1988-89 Yves Tremblay, Ph.D. (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Laval Univ., Quebec, Canada)

1988-90 Susan F. Townsend, M.D. (formerly Assoc. Prof. Pediatrics, Univ. of Colorado; now in private practice)

1989-92 Dong Lin, M.D., Ph.D., (formerly Asst. Adjunct Prof. Pediatrics, UCSF 1992-97, now in private practice)

1989-91 Jennifer Harikrishna, Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof. of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

1990-94 Dean Hum, Ph.D. (1993 M.M. Grumbach Award for Excellence in Research; formerly Assoc. Prof. Physiology, Laval Univ., Quebec, Canada 1994-99; now Chief Scientific Officer, Genfit Inc., Lille, France)

1990-92 Gbolagade O. Babalola, D.V.M., Ph.D., D.O. (private practice)

1990-92 Adam Ilicki, M.D. (formerly, Asst. Prof. Pediatrics, U. of Uppsala, Sweden, now in private practice)

1990-92 Grazyna D. Szklarz, Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia U.)

1991-93 Stephen M. Black, Ph.D. (Prof. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Georgia, Athens, GA)

1991-97 Henry Rodriquez, M.D. (NIH K08 Physician/Scientist Award; Assoc. Prof. Pediatrics, Indiana U. Indianapolis, IN)

1991-93 Carlos E. Fardella, M.D. (Fogarty International Fellow; 1993 Henry Christian Award, American Federation for Clinical Research; Professor of Medicine, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

1991-92 Bart Staels, Ph.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, Institute Pasteur, Lille, France)

1992-93 Linhua Zhang, Ph.D. (Cheng Scholar, People's Republic of China; Senior Molecular Biologist, VA Medical Center, Long Beach, CA and U. of California, Irvine)

1992-95 Meng Kian Tee, Ph.D. (Asst. Research Biochemist, Dept. of Pediatrics, UCSF)

1992-93 Axel A. Thomson, Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof., MRC Center for Reproductive Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

1993-96 Mart Speek, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia)

1993-96 Floyd Barry, M.D. (Private Practice, Waco, TX; Teaching Chief for Pediatrics, McLennan County Family Practice Residency Program, Waco, TX)

1994-95 Pedro Aza-Blanc, Ph.D. (Group Leader, Division of Genomics, Novartis Institute for Genomics Research, San Diego, CA)

1994-96 Guangren Zhang, Ph.D. (Scientist, Celera Genomics Corp. Rockville, MD)

1994-95 Yann Guiguen, Ph.D. (Staff Scientist, (Assoc. Prof.), INRA-SCRIBE, Rennes, France)

1994-95 Shuji Ohno, Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof. Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan)

1995-98 David Geller, M.D., Ph.D. (LWPES Pharmacia Fellowship; Assoc. Prof. Pediatrics, UCLA - Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA)

1995-98 Himangshu S. Bose, Ph.D. (NIH KOI Mentored Scientist Award; formerly Asst. Research Biochemist, UCSF Dept. of Pediatrics; now Assoc. Prof. of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University, Savannah, GA)

1995-96 Hong Shi, M.D., Ph.D. (private practice)

1995-99 Richard S. Auchus, M.D., Ph.D., (Howard Hughes Fellowship; NIH K08 Physician/Scientist Award; Professor of Medicine, U. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr., Dallas, TX)

1996-97 Glenn K. Fu, Ph.D. (Director, Genotyping Research, Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, CA)

1997-99 Jonathan T. Wang, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Applied Biosystems Inc., Foster City, CA)

1997-01 Sujeewa D. Wijesuriya, Ph.D. (2000 M.M. Grumbach Award for Excellence in Research; Sr. Scientist, Xoma Pharmaceuticals, Oakland, CA)

1997-99 Sandra M. Burridge, Ph.D. (Research Scientist, Roche Pharmaceuticals)

1997-01 Ningwu Huang, Ph.D. (NIH K01 Mentored Scientist Award, 2001; Senior Scientist, Presidio Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA)

1998-00 Chin-Jia Lin, M.D. (Asst. Prof. Molecular Pathology, U. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)

1998-01 Maengseok Song, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA)

1998-01 Mei-chuan Huang, Ph.D. (Asst. Research Immunologist, Dept. of Medicine, UCSF)

1998-01 John W.M. Martens, Ph.D. (Asst. Prof. Dept. of Endocrine Oncology, Erasmus U., Rotterdam, Netherlands)

1999-01 Weibke Arlt, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, U. of Birmingham, U.K.)

2000-05 Amit V. Pandey, Ph.D. (Asst. Prof., Biomedical Research, U. Berne, Switzerland)

2000-03 Andrea Dardis, Ph.D. (Laboratory Director, Metabolic Diseases Unit, Burlo Garofolo Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Trieste, Italy)

2001-04 Christa E. Flück, M.D. (Swiss National Research Foundation Fellow; 2005 ESPE Young Investigator Award; Assoc. Prof. Pediatrics, U. of Berne, Switzerland)

2002-04 Heidi Gassner, M.D. (Pediatric Endocrinology, Kaiser Permanente, Vallejo, CA)

2002-06 Xin Chen, Ph.D. (Post-doctoral fellow, Stanford U.)

2002-08 Qing Dong, M.D., Ph.D. (NIH K08 Physician Scientist Award 2003; formerly Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF, now in private practice)

2003-05 Dustin C. Yaworsky, Ph.D. (Senior Research Scientist, Agilent Technologies, Wilmington, DE)

2003-04 Bo Yang Baker, Ph.D. (Research Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, OH)

2004 Brian J. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D. (NIH K08 Physician/Scientist Award, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford U.)

2004-now Vishal Agrawal, Ph.D.

2005-06 Chan Jong Kim, M.D., Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof. Pediatrics, Chonnam National University School of Medicine, Gwangju, Korea)

2006, 07 Rachel R. Scott, M.D. (Asst. Prof. Pediatrics, Dalhousie U., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

2006-08 Larissa G. Gomes, M.D. (Staff Physician, Hospital Das Clinicas, U. São Paulo, Brazil)

2008-now Taninee Pitwijit Sahakitrungruang, M.D.

2008-now Yue-Hao Wang, Ph.D.

2009-now Duanpen Sandee, Ph.D.

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