Our Team

Joaquin Espinosa, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology & Executive Director of the Crnic Institute

“Being a scientist is a great lifestyle, where you can be of service to society while having tons of fun.”

- Joaquin Espinosa

Zdenek Andrysik, PhD

Instructor

"I love the smell of lysis buffer in the morning… It smells like discovery!"

- Anonymous

Paula Araya, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion.”

– Stephen Hawking

Lyndy Bush, MPA

Principal Business Services Professional

“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

- Paulo Coelho

Chelsea Donohoe, MPA

Sr. Communications Professional

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”

- Ruth Bader Gingsburg

Micah Donovan, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.”

- Grateful Dead

Huy Duc, MS

Professional Research Assistant

“Because I can.”

- Huy Duc

Belinda Enriquez Estrada, MS

Clinical Research Coordinator

“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

– Marie Curie

Matt Galbraith, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

“We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.”

- Ernest Rutherford

Molishree Joshi, PhD

Instructor

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

- Albert Einstein

Michael Ludwig, MS

Sr. Research Assistant

“Soulshine - it's better than sunshine, it's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain.”

- Warren Haynes

Neetha Paul Eduthan, MS

Bioinformatics Analyst

“Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many people pass one way, a road is made.”

– Lu Xun