People
Our team consists of students and post docs from different research areas, as well as young industry professionals, but we are all sharing the common goal of improving and facilitating communication between biotech industry and academia. Our advisory board includes BCLA's co-founders and professionals from academia and industry, who help to direct BCLA towards better serving the biotech community and creating more possibilities for bioscience entrepreneurship in Los Angeles.
Biotech Connection LA Team
Advisory Board
Alumni
Asumi Suguro (Outreach Lead) 2020-2021
Sadhna Rao (Vice President) 2019-2021
Hammond Sun (Director of Strategic Operations) 2017-2021
Adhirath Sikand (President) 2017-2020
Joseph Tsung (Consulting Associate) 2019-2020
Johnny Saldate (Events Lead) 2018-2020
Martin Egeland (External Affairs Lead) 2019-2020
Yi Liu (Events Associate) 2018-2020
Evgeny Bondarenko (Media Lead, President) 2015-2019
Tom Allison (Media & Marketing Lead) 2018-2019
Manmeet Raval (Outreach Associate) 2018-2019
Lok Leung (Outreach Lead) 2017-2019
George Abe (Emeritus Advisory Board Member)
Arleen F. Brown (Emeritus Advisory Board Member)
Jonathon Low (Development Associate) 2018-2019
Marcos Otero (Media & Marketing Associate) 2018
Lining Zhu (Media Associate) 2017-2018
Lindsey Sacco (Social Media Associate) 2017-2018
Lisa Walter (Outreach and Marketing Associate) 2016-2018
Cathy Jin (Volunteer Coordinator) 2016-2018
Radhika Palkar (Event Lead) 2015-2018
Huixuan Liang (Event Associate) 2016-2018
Umesh Ahuja (Fundraising Lead) 2016-2018
Yari Fontebasso (Outreach Lead, President) 2015-2017
Jaqueline Sayyah (Writer, Industry Ambassador) 2015-2017
Mary Donhofner (Social Media Associate) 2016-2017
Charles Caldwell (Outreach Associate, Campus Ambassador) 2016-2017
Julia Zhao (Outreach Associate) 2016-2017
Matt Wong (Chapter Correspondent) 2015-2017
Michael Frantz (Outreach Associate) 2015-2016
Anna Parievsky (Events Associate) 2016
Julian Esteve-Rudd (Chapter Correspondent) 2014-2015
Ben S. Huang (Chapter Correspondent) 2015
Nathan Hutcheson (Chapter Correspondent) 2015