Our Team

Chavez Lab (May 2024)

Lukas Chavez, PhD

Associate Professor
Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program
NCI-designated Cancer Center
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
lchavez@sbpdiscovery.org

Associate Adjunct Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Genomics and Precision Medicine
UC San Diego

Director, Joseph Clayes III Research Center for Neuro-Oncology and Genomic Medicine
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM)
Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego
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Aleli Morse

Research Admin Assistant
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
amorse@sbpdiscovery.org

Owen Chapman, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
ochapman@sbpdiscovery.org

Jon Larson, PhD

Staff Research Scientist
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
jlarson@sbpdiscovery.org

Aurelia Lo

Research Associate
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
laurelia@sbpdiscovery.org

Rishaan Kenkre

Research Associate
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
rkenkre@sbpdiscovery.org

Jessica Wang

Graduate Student
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
jwang@sbpdiscovery.org

Emerald Adeyan

Graduate Student
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
eadeyan@sbpdiscovery.org

Chinmay Sharma

Rotating Graduate Student
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
c1sharma@ucsd.edu

Ashley Hui

Rotating Graduate Student
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
ahui@sbpdiscovery.org

Peter (Boqi) Wang

Rotating Graduate Student
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
bwang@sbpdiscovery.org

Aditi Dutta

Undergraduate Intern
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
addutta@ucsd.edu

Charles Handley

Undergraduate Intern
Point Loma Nazarene University
chandley@sbpdiscovery.org

Sunita Sridhar, MD

Clinical Fellow,
Rady Children's Hospital and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Alumni

Jonathan Kirkland

Rotating Graduate Student
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
jokirkland@ucsd.edu

Ling Morgan, MS

Lab Manager
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Shanqing Wang

Undergraduate Intern
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Yingxi Lin

Undergraduate Intern,
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Mariya Kazachkova

Graduate Student in Biomedical Sciences (BMS, rotation student),
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Caitlin Guccione

Graduate Student in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB, rotation student),
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Sameena Wani

PostDoc
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Konstantin Okonechnikov

Visiting Scholar,
Children's Cancer Center,
NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ)