Team
The Consortium
The UCSF Immunoprofiler is comprised of an interdisciplinary group of clinical, academic, and pharmaceutical groups, who are organized to bridge the gap between basic and translational science. The consortium was originally founded by a collaboration between the laboratories of Max Krummel, Adil Daud, and Michael Rosenblum at UCSF. Now organized as a larger consortium of clinical, academic, and pharmaceutical laboratories, each Consortium Member is mining data for value through a common portal. By sharing sample data and information, the Consortium makes best use of limited patient material and aligns the interest of a collection of groups who all seek the next generation of cures for cancer. Presently, there are four Consortium Members that make up the UCSF Immunoprofiler: UCSF, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, AbbVie, and Pfizer.
Project ADMINISTRATION & Leadership
Matthew 'Max' Krummel, PhD
Principal Investigator
Max is an immunologist whose lab uses live-imaging to find key pathways in biology. He has a rich history at the immune-cancer interface including as the developer of anti-CTLA-4 (ipilimumab/Yervoy) therapeutics. He maintains an active lab that studies the fundamentals of how the immune system functions dynamically in space and time and how cell types integrate to generate fundamental immune states. His current work in mice identified immune cell subsets in tumors that provide initial signatures to develop within the UCSF Immunoprofiler.
Matthew Spitzer, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator
Matt is a UCSF Parker Fellow and a Sandler Faculty Fellow and is now an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Microbiology & Immunology and an investigator of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. He completed his training in Immunology at Stanford University. There, he developed experimental and analytical methods to model the state of the immune system using high dimensional single-cell data. Matt also developed new strategies for inducing powerful immune responses against cancer.
Vincent Chan, PhD
Senior Scientist/Project Manager
Vincent manages the entire UCSF Immunoprofiler Consortium and focuses on colorectal analytics. He was initially trained as a biological engineer in 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering at MIT and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, but changed his professional career when his mother was diagnosed with rectal cancer. He oversees all aspects of the consortium and actively participates in analytics and data mining.
Alexis Combes, PhD
Disease 2 Biology Director
Elizabeth Edmiston, PhD
Strategic Alliance Manager
Elizabeth develops strategic corporate partnerships on behalf of UCSF, identifying new strategic partners to complement UCSF's translational research pipeline through pre-clinical studies. Within the UCSF Immunoprofiler Consortium, she manages the industry alliances and identifies new partners and collaborators.
Isabelle Tingin
Administrative Analyst Officer
Isabelle is the Administrative Analyst Officer for the UCSF Immunoprofiler in the Department of Pathology. She provides administrative support, allowing the rest of the team to focus on research and scientific discovery.
Indication-Specific Clinical Teams
Rohit Gupta
Director,
Biospecimen Resources (BIOS)
Tasha Lea, MS, PA (ASCP)
Pathologist Assistant
Biospecimen Resources (BIOS)
Chloe E. Atreya, MD, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator
Medicine
Michael Alvarado, MD
Professor and Surgeon,
Melanoma
Lee-May Chen, MD
Surgeon,
Gynecologic Oncology
Jocelyn Chapman, MD
Assistant Professor and Surgeon,
Gynecologic Oncology
Carlos Corvera, MD
Surgeon,
Gastrointestinal Oncology
Adil Daud, MD
Clinical Professor
Hematology/Oncology
Aaron Diaz, PhD
Professor,
Neurological Surgery
Ivan El-Sayed, MD
Surgeon,
Head and Neck Oncology
Lawrence Fong, MD
Professor,
Hematology Oncology
Jennifer Grandis, MD
Professor,
Head and Neck Oncology
Patrick Ha, MD
Professor
Otolaryngology
R. Katie Kelley, MD
Associate Professor,
Hematology Oncology
Andrew Ko, MD
Professor,
Hematology Oncology
Max Meng, MD
Professor and Surgeon,
Genitourinary Oncology
Eric Nakakura, MD
Surgeon,
Gastrointestinal Oncology
Hideho Okada, MD
Professor,
Neurological Surgery
Ross Okimoto, MD
Adjunct Clinical Instructor,
Orthopedic Surgery Oncology
Sima Porten, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor and Surgeon,
Genitourinary Oncology
Michael Rosenblum, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dermatology
William Ryan, MD
Surgeon,
Head and Neck Oncology
Margaret Tempero, MD
Professor,
Hematology Oncology
Rosanna Wustrack, MD
Surgeon,
Orthopedic Surgery Oncology
DATA SCIENCES TEAM
Gabriela Fragiadakis, PhD
Data Sciences Director
Saurabh Asthana, PhD
Data Scientist
Lenny Lupin-Jimenez
Data Scientist
Arjun Arkal Rao, PhD
Data Scientist
Bushra Samad
Data Scientist
Cole Shaw
Software Engineer
Clinical Research coordinator team
Cathy Cai
Clinical Research Coordinator
Jenny Zhan
Clinical Research Coordinator
EMBEDDED RESEARCHERS
Tristan Courau, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Pathology
Taymour Hammoudi, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow,
Pathology
sample processing TEAM
Jessica Tsui
Lab Manager
Nayvin Chew
Staff Research Associate
Brittany Davidson
Staff Research Associate
Divya Kushnoor
Specialiast
Alan Shen
Staff Research Associate
