
Lab Team







Tanuj Gulati, PhD
Principal Investigator
Postdoc, UCSF
PhD, Drexel University
Aamir Abbasi, PhD
Project Scientist
previously postdoctoral fellow, Cedars-Sinai (AHA and CNSM fellow)
PhD, CNRS Paris
Hayden Moser, BS
Research Associate
BS Neuroscience, Pomona College
Joseph Pinzone, BS
Research Associate (joining 06/2026)
BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami
Hyejin Choi
Research Intern (joining 06/2026)
Undergraduate Human Biology major, UCLA
Jake Matsumoto
Research Intern (joining 06/2026)
Undergraduate Psychobiology major, UCLA
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Collaborators
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Steven Cramer, MD
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Chrystal Reed, MD PhD
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Shlee Song, MD
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Ueli Rutishauser, PhD
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Patrick Lyden, MD
Alumni
Postdoctoral fellows/ residents
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LeeAnn Chang, MD, Neurology resident ==> Epilepsy fellow, UCSF
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Benjamin Simpson, MD, Neurology resident ==> Epilepsy fellow, University of Colorado
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Pierson Fleischer, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow ==> Mechatronics Engineering, Kent State
Graduate Student
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Rohit Rangwani, PhD! (AHA fellow) ==> Postdoctoral fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Research Associates:
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Nathan Danielsen (Neuroscience, UCLA) ==> Graduate School, Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), now at Regeneron, NY
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Daniel Bowen (Psychobiology, UCLA) ==> Circadia Health
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Ishaan Jain (Neuroscience, USC) ==> Medical School, University of South Florida
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Hayden Moser (Neuroscience, Pomona College)
Research Interns:
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Saahil Patel, BS (Bioengineering, UCLA) ==> Graduate School, UC Berkeley (now Firmware Engineer, iota Biosciences, Berkeley, CA)
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Shakthi Visagan, BS (Bioengineering, UCLA) ==> Research Associate, UCLA
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Amad Jalil (UC Berkeley Neuroscience) ==> Undergraduate student, UC Berkeley
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Ramneet Sandhu (Psychobiology, UCLA) ==> Clinical Research Coordinator, USC (now at medical school at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
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Philip Raj (Psychobiology, UCLA) ==> Aledade, Inc.
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Arlyn Pandes (Neuroscience, USF); INSPIRE intern at Cedars-Sinai
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Chanmin Kim (Neuroscience, UCLA)
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Priscilla Contreras (Palisades Charter High School); INSPIRE intern at Cedars-Sinai
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Esther Bark (Los Angeles Senior High School); INSPIRE intern
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Jared Nakahara (Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology, UCLA)
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Jashan Mahajan (Neuroscience, UCLA)
