Current and Recent Alumni
Current and Recent PhD Graduates
Rozeta Avetisyan, PhD
Trainee with Karen Reue
Lara Bideyan, PhD
Former trainee with Peter Tontonoz (2022)
Anthony Jones, PhD
Graduate trainee with Ajit Divakaruni
Jennifer Ngo, PhD
Graduate trainee with Orian Shirihai – postdoctoral fellow
Norma Sandoval, PhD
Trainee in the Correa Laboratory
Rising Fellows
Laura Cortes, PhD
Correa Laboratory
Kelsey Jarret, PhD
Tarling Laboratory
Kevin Qian, MD, PhD
Tontonoz Laboratory – MSTP Fellow
Matthew Romero, PhD
Hevener & Pyle Laboratories
Carrie Wiese, PhD
Reue Laboratory
Fellows to Faculty
Melissa Lechner, MD, PhD
Former Endocrine Fellow STAR (2018)
Tara TeSlaa, PhD
Former graduate trainee with Mike Teitell (2017)
Claudio Villanueva, PhD
Former postdoctoral trainee with Peter Tontonoz (2012)
Xia Yang, PhD
Former postdoctoral trainee with Jake Lusis (2006)
Zhenqi Zhou, PhD
Former postdoctoral trainee with Andrea Hevener (2018)
Featured UCLA STAR Program Alumni
Mark Goodarzi, MD, PhD
Director of Division of Endocrinology at Cedars-Sinai
Professor of Medicine & John Mazziotta Endowed Chair Director, UCLA women’s Cardiovascular Center