Swanson Fellows

Matt Callahan joined The Column Group in 2024 after completing his PhD in Chemical Biology at UC San Francisco. His thesis work in the Gestwicki Lab explored a novel mode of molecular recognition by CHIP, a ubiquitin ligase implicated in neurodegenerative disease. Matt also gained exposure to biotech company creation while at UCSF, working with […]

Dr. Chen joined the Column Group as a Swanson Fellow in 2023 after completing her PhD in virology and immunology at UC San Francisco. As part of her graduate thesis in Melanie Ott’s group, she discovered a novel immune evasion function of the viral envelope protein of SARS-CoV-2 and first characterized the limited immunity elicited