Draft news page
Lab dinner, Spring 2026
We had a social gathering to celebrate the near completion of the Spring 2026 quarter and enjoy time together as a group.
Meet the team
The Tanigawa Lab brings together researchers who study disease heterogeneity, statistical genetics, and computational genomics.
Current Members
Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mapping the biological basis of heterogeneity in disease.
Disease heterogeneity dissection
Biomedical data science
Statistical genetics
Nabil Mohammed
PhD Student
Developing methods to uncover genetics of complex traits.
Statistical genetics
Functional genomics
Drug discovery
Ananya Rai
Graduate Student
Gene-by-sex interactions
Disease heterogeneity
Genome-Wide Association Studies
Jihye Lee
Graduate Student
Graduate student researching disease heterogeneity and genetic feature discovery using machine learning.
Deep Learning
Genetic Associations
Disease Heterogenetiy
Tanya Wang
Graduate Student
Graduate student interested in statistical genetics, Mendelian Randomization, and computational methods for understanding disease mechanisms.
Statistical Genetics
Mendelian Randomization
Biostatistics
Ashley Do
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate student interested in applying statistical methods to better understand and quantify pleiotropy.
Gene Latent Features
Polygenic Risk Scores
Personalized Medicine
Keira Hundhausen
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate bioengineering student interested in using large scale genomic and phenotypic data to predict aging.
Genome Wide Association Studies
Bioinformatics
Protein Folding
Recruiting
We welcome students from relevant degree programs at UCLA, including but not limited to: Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Computational Medicine, Human Genetics, and Biomathematics.
We also welcome motivated postdoctoral scholars.
Please see the Join Us page for current opportunities and application guidance.
Social events
We will share lab social highlights here as news posts. For now, we have prepared draft writeups for recent quarter-end gatherings.
Draft news page
Lab dinner, Winter 2026
We had a social gathering to celebrate the near completion of the Winter 2026 quarter and reflect on the quarter's progress together.
Draft news page
Lab dinner, Fall 2025
We had a social gathering to celebrate the near completion of the Fall 2025 quarter and spend time together outside regular lab meetings.
Alumni
Alfred Kibowen
PhD Rotation Student
Rotation project: investigated cross-ancestry genetic prediction.
Polygenic scores
Cross-ancestry genetic prediction
JJ Schirle
PhD Rotation Student
Rotation project: methods for deriving biologically interpretable latent components from multitrait genetic association data.
Statistical genetics
Multitrait genetic association data
Interpretable latent component methods
Lucy Tian
Former Mentee
Former mentee who led the PRISM project on polygenic score prediction in underrepresented populations.
Population genetics
Statistical genetics
Polygenic score prediction
William Li
Former Undergraduate Mentee
Undergraduate mentee (UROP) at MIT who applied polygenic score prediction to investigate Alzheimer's disease heterogeneity. Now MD-PhD student at Harvard.
Polygenic score prediction
Alzheimer's disease
Disease heterogeneity