MSTP Director | Alan L. Goldin, MD, PhD
Phone: (949) 824-1888
Email: agoldin@uci.edu
Faculty Profile: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2308
Dr. Goldin received his MD, PhD from the University of Michigan and he completed postdoctoral training in molecular neurobiology at Caltech. He is a faculty member in the departments of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Anatomy & Neurobiology, and Physiology & Biophysics and he serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in the College of Health Sciences. His lab investigates how mutations in ion channel genes cause epilepsy using mouse models and human neurons. Dr. Goldin’s goal for the program is to have students with diverse backgrounds and research interests help each other learn to apply rigorous scientific approaches from many fields to research and clinical practice.
MSTP Co-Director | Edwin Monuki, MD, PhD
Phone: (949) 824-9604
Email: emonuki@uci.edu
Faculty Profile: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4649
A Southern California native, Dr. Monuki received his B.S. in Biology from M.I.T. He then earned his MD, PhD at UC San Diego, after which he completed his Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology residency and clinical fellowship at Massachusetts Gen, Brigham and Women’s, and Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Upon completion of his clinical training, Dr. Monuki became an attending at the Brigham and Children’s as well as a Howard Hughes postdoctoral fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2001 he joined UCI’s Department of Pathology, where he studies forebrain development and translational applications using embryonic, induced-pluripotent, and neural stem cells. He is the Warren L. Bostick Chair of Pathology at UC Irvine. His vision for UCI’s MSTP is to develop new education and training initiatives to prepare the next generation of leaders in academic medicine and to help make our program an MSTP-of-choice for incoming students.
MSTP Associate Director | Angela G. Fleischman, MD, PhD
Phone: (949) 824-2559
Email: agf@uci.edu
Faculty Profile: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6028
As an Orange County native, Angela Fleischman received B.S. from UCLA in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics then her PhD and MD at Stanford University, her PhD focused on lymphoid lineage commitment. She completed her internal medicine residency and medical oncology fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University where she developed her clinical and research interest in myeloproliferative neoplasm. She has been at UCI since 2013, her laboratory focuses on the role of inflammation in myeloproliferative neoplasm. Her lab utilizes mouse models, primary cells from myeloproliferative neoplasm patients she cares for in clinic, and she also does investigator initiated clinical trials stemming from her laboratory work. She has active leadership roles in UCI’s Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer, she has been the hematologic malignancies Disease Oriented Team co-leader since 2013 and is the co-leader of the Systems, Pathways, and Targets Program. Dr. Fleischman joined the MSTP leadership in 2022 and is excited to support the next generation of physician scientists.