Administrative and Research Staff

Brenden-Colson Center staff

Sammy Kwon

Sammy Kwon
Administrative Coordinator
Scheduling, events coordinator, hosting visitors and executive assistant to Dr. Sears

Loa Nowina-Sapinski

Loa Nowina-Sapinski
Program Manager
Financial, personnel, educational events and grants submitted by BCC

Dove Keith

Dove Keith, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager
Internal collaborations, academic partnerships and research funding awarded by BCC

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Grace McCarthy
Community Outreach Coordinator
Social media, advertising, outreach for BCC

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Barron Le
Clinical Coordinator
Patient consent, specimen management 

Brenden-Colson Center research staff and trainees

Mendez

Heike Mendez
Senior Research Assistant, Lab Manager
Grossberg lab

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Paige Arneson-Wissink, PhD 
Postdoctoral Scholar
Grossberg lab

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Beth Worley, PhD 
Postdoctoral Scholar
Grossberg lab

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Jessica Dickie
Research Assistant
Grossberg Lab

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TBD
Repository Steward
Biospecimen and data requests

Carl Pelz

Carl Pelz
Research Associate, Computational Biology
Database developer and data integration

Karyn Taylor

Karyn Taylor
Science Project Manager
Sears Lab, School of Medicine

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Alex Smith
Research Assistant
Brenden-Colson Center, Sears Lab