Meet Our Lab

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​DANICA GALONIC FUJIMORI, PHD

Professor
Genentech Hall, N572E 
​Email: danica.fujimori (at) ucsf.edu
Phone: 415.514.0147

Danica holds a B.Sc. (University of Belgrade, 2000) and Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005) in chemistry. From 2005-08, she was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Chris Walsh at Harvard Medical School. She started her independent career at UCSF in 2008. Danica is a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, member of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and is associate director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at UCSF. She also serves as associate director of UCSF's Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate program.

Link: UCSF Profile
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JOrdan kleinman

Graduate Student - Chemistry and Chemical Biology
B.S. Chemical Biology, University of California - Berkeley, 2019
Email: jordan.kleinman@ucsf.edu

James Longbotham, phd

Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., University of Manchester, 2014
B.Sc. (Hons), University of Manchester, 2010
Email: james.longbotham@ucsf.edu
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GLORIA ​Ortiz, PHD

Postdoctoral Scholar
​Ph.D. Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 2019
B.A. Chemistry, Smith College, 2014
​Email: gloria.ortiz@ucsf.edu

Ali Palla

Graduate Student -Tetrad
B.S. Chemical Biology, University of California - Berkeley, 2016
Email: ali.palla@ucsf.edu

​Letitia Sarah

Graduate Student - Chemistry and Chemical Biology
B.Sc. Chemistry, Nagoya University, 2017
Email: letitia.sarah@ucsf.edu

Kaitlyn tsai

Graduate Student - Chemistry and Chemical Biology
B.S. Chemistry, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2016
​Email: kaitlyn.tsai@ucsf.edu

Fatima Ugur

Graduate Student - Chemistry and Chemical Biology
​B.S. Biochemistry, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 2015 
Email: fatima.ugur@ucsf.edu

MENG YAO ZHANG, PHD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., Australian National University, 2019
B.S., Australian National University, 2014
Email: mengyao.zhang@ucsf.edu

ZEPING LUO
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Laboratory Manager
B.S. and M.S. (Molecular Biology), Jinan University
M.S. (Software Engineering), Golden Gate University
Email: zeping.luo@ucsf.edu

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