Tewari Lab Alumni

Meet some of the incredible minds that have worked in our lab and learn where they are now.

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Post-Doctoral Fellows

Brian Fritz, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2006 – 2008
Current Position: Strategic Marketing, 10X Genomics

John Byon, M.D., Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2007 – 2008
Current Position: Senior Medical Director, Juno Therapeutics

Stacia Wyman, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2006 - 2011
Current Position: Bioinformatics Staff Research Scientist, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF

Jason Arroyo, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2008 - 2013  
Current Position: Principal Scientist, Pfizer Functional Genomics Center

Shibani Mukherjee, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2010 – 2014  
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern

Heather Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2010 – 2013
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington

Steve Hayward, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2016 - 2017
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Cernostics Inc

Maria Giraldez, M.D., Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2014 - 2019
Current Position: Faculty, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville/Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain

Ryan Spengler, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2015 - 2019
Current Position: Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin, Madison

​Chris Flora, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2018 - 2021
Current Position: Senior Medical Writer at Medtronic

Merav Bar, M.D.

Years in lab: 2006 – 2008
Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington

Colin Pritchard, M.D., Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2009 – 2011
Current Positions: Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington
Director of the Genetics and Solid Tumors Lab, University of Washington

Kavita Garg, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2007 – 2013
Current Position: Computational Biology Staff Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

John Chevillet, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2008 - 2014
Current Position: Senior Scientist, 10X Genomics

Jamie Guenthoer, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2010 - 2013
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Human Biology, Free Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 

Lucia Vojtech, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2013 - 2014
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington

Qing Kang, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2014 - 2017
Current Position: Senior Scientist in Translational Medicine, Syros Pharmaceuticals

Kuang He, Ph.D.

 Years in lab: 2017 - 2019
Current Position: Analyst, Sofinnova Partners in Paris, France

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Research Fellows​

Dave Warner, M.D.

Years in lab: 2019 - 2020
Current Position: Utah Cancer Specialists, Salt Lake City, Utah

Amy Chang, M.D.

Years in lab: 2018 - 2021

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Graduate Students

Emily Knouf, Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2008 – 2012
Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program

Angela Barr, M.S.

Years in lab: 2011 – 2012
Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program

Yesenia Correa Ph.D.

Years in lab: 2009 – 2014
Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program

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Staff

Dolors Sans-Gili

Years in lab: 2014 – 2015
Lab Manager

Brittany Dixon

Years in lab: 2015 – 2016
Scientific Writer In-Residence, Research Program Coordinator, and Lab Manager

Tim Tesmer

Years in lab: 2016 - 2018
Research Lab Technician Lead

Tyler Suciu

Years in lab: 2016 - 2018
​Research Lab Technician Intermediate

​Missy Tuck

Years in lab: 2015 - 2018
​Clinical Research Project Manager

​Annika Goicochea

Years in lab: 2016 - 2020
​Clinical Research Health Coordinator

Alex Johnson-Buck

Years in lab: 2016 - 2020
​Research Assistant Professor

Alicia Ward

Years in lab: 2022-2023
Research Assistant

David Hyland

Years in lab: 2015 – 2016
Research Assistant

Brian Kleiner

Years in lab: 2015 - 2017
Clinical Subjects Coordinator
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Joshua Weber-Townsend

Years in lab: 2017 - 2018
​Research Lab Technician Intermediate

Sherry Taylor

Years in lab: 2014 - 2018
​Administrative Specialist Associate Healthcare

Ryan Lindstrom

Years in lab: 2016 - 2019
Research Lab Technician Intermediate, Clinical Subjects Coordinator

Brittnie Cannon

Years in lab: 2019 - 2020
​Clinical Subjects Coordinator

Jenny Barabas

Years in lab: 2018-2022
​Research lab Technician Intermediate, Clinical Subjects Coordinator

Mary Olesnavich

Years in lab: 2018-2023
​Research Lab Technician Intermediate, Research Lab Technician Senior

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Graduate Rotation & Other Students

Erin Engelson

Year in lab: 2006
UW MCB Rotation Student

James Urton

Year in lab: 2006
UW MCB Rotation Student

Emily Knouf

Year in lab: 2008
UW MCB Rotation Student

Emily Singer

Year in lab: 2008
Summer Undergraduate Student from Stanford University

Phil Calses

Year in lab: 2009
UW MCB Rotation Student

Yesenia Correa

Year in lab: 2010
UW MCB Rotation Student

Christopher Bennett

Year in lab: 2010
UW MCB Rotation Student

Michael Fiske

Year in lab: 2011
UW MCB Rotation Student

Rebecca Resnick

Year in lab: 2013
UW MSTP Rotation Student

Reema Abi-Akar

Years in lab: 2015 - 2016
UM Undergraduate Student

Nick Wang

Year in lab: 2018
UM Ph.D. Rotation Student
Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

Ricky Engel

Years in lab: 2016 - 2018
UM Undergraduate Student

Sadie Quinn

Years in lab: 2016 - 2018
UM Undergraduate Student

Alison John

Years in lab: 2016 - 2019
​UM Undergraduate Student

Iris He

Years in lab: 2018 - 2020
​UM Undergraduate Student

​Olivia Schafer

Years in lab: 2022 - 2023
​UM Undergraduate Student

Mohull Mehta

Years in lab: 2022 - 2023
​UM Undergraduate Student

Chris Hubert

Year in lab: 2006
UW MCB Rotation Student

Daryl Humes

Year in lab: 2007
UW MCB Rotation Student

Ausra Bendoraityt

Years in lab: 2007 - 2009
Visiting International Student

Michael Zhang

Year in lab: 2009
UW MSTP Rotation Student

Ana Pengelly

Year in lab: 2009
Visiting International Student

Sanjay Jolly

Year in lab: 2010
UM Summer Undergraduate Student

Angela Barr

Year in lab: 2011
UW MCB Rotation Student

Meara Davies

Year in lab: 2012
UW MCB Rotation Student

Kaitlin Shaw

Year in lab: 2015
UM Student Intern 

Hayley Petit

Years in lab: 2016 - 2017
​UM Undergraduate Student

Ruta Raulickis

Years in lab: 2016 - 2018
UM Undergraduate Student

Kelly Sovacool

Year in the lab: 2018
UM Ph.D. Rotation Student
​PIBS/Bioinformatics

​Emma Cheff

Year in lab: 2018
​UM UROP Student

Noah Welker

Years in lab: 2017 - 2018, summer 2019
​UM Undergraduate Student

Anna Bowie

Years in lab: 2016 - 2020
​UM Undergraduate and Graduate Student

Brandt Bessell

Year in lab: 2023
UM Ph.D. Rotation Student
Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

John Keyorkgy

Years in lab: 2022 - 2023
UM Undergraduate Volunteer

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