Faculty

Course Directors

David Cheresh, PhD
Professor, Vice-Chair for Research and Development
Associate Director for Translational Research
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
La Jolla, California

Gary S. Firestein, MD
Professor of Medicine Chief
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Dean, Translational Medicine
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California

Juan Carlos Lopez, PhD
Chief Editor
Nature Medicine
New York, New York

Moderators

Klaus Ley, MD
Adjunct Professor
Bioengineering
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California

Yury Miller, MD
Associate Adjunct Professor
Department of Medicine
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California

Wulfrum Ruf, MD
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbial Science
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California

Sam Tsimikas, MD
Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California

Speakers

Wadih Arap, MD, PhD
Stringer Professor of Medicine and Experimental Diagnostic Imaging
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Joyce Bischoff, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Tatiana Byzova, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Holger Eltzschig, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado

Ronald J. Falk, MD
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Napoleone Ferrara, MD, PhD
Research
Genentech, Inc.
San Francisco, California

Kelly A. Frazer, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Genome Information Sciences
Moores UCSD Cancer Center
La Jolla, California

Paul Frenette, MD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York

Robert Gerszten, MD
Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Stan Hazen, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention
Section Head, Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation
Cleveland Group
Cleveland, Ohio

Rakesh Jain, PhD
Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Paul Kubes, PhD
Professor and Director,
Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation
University of Calgary
Alberta, Canada

Dean Li, MD, PhD
HA and Edna Benning Endowed Professor of Medicine and Cardiology
Director, Molecular Medicine Program and MD/PhD Program
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Jagat Narula, MD, DM, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology
Director, Cardiovascular Center, UC Irvine Douglas Hospital
Director, Memorial Heart & Vascular Institute, Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Medical Director, Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced CV Technology
University of California Irvine School of Medicine
Irvine, California

Renata Pasqualini, PhD
Buchanan and Seeger Professor of Medicine and Experimental Diagnostic
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Susan Quaggin, MD
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Ryan Watts, PhD
Associate Director
Neuroscience
Genentech, Inc,
South San Francisco, California

Joseph Witztum, MD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California