Some Contact Info for Career Assignment
This document is meant to be helpful, but not exhaustive. You can find information
about many academic, private, and government institutions on the internet. Bring up
your browser, choose a Search engine, and type in the name of profession.
COMMERCIAL BIOTECH FIRMS
A listing for biotech companies in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County
areas can be found at
http://www.biopharmguy.com/scalifornia.php
Be sure to ask the company or lab whether it uses any nucleic acid based techniques.
Also, the list of interesting www sites on the class website provides links that may be
useful.
BIOINFORMATICS
Check the SoCalBSI webpage for internship sites for our summer program.
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/jmomand2/
Look under SoCalBSI programs in the right column on the homepage. Click on a year
and from the page you reach, click on the “Mentors” tab in the gold stripe under the
picture of the university Student Union. These sites are labs that use bioinformatics to
answer molecular questions. Several of them are nucleic acid-related.
FORENSICS
There are DNA labs in the LA Police Department, as well as the LA, San Bernardino,
and Orange County Steriff's Departments. Contact information for forensic labs can be
found at the website for the California Association of Criminalistics.
The homepage URL is http://www.cacnews.org/
and from that page, under “Contact,” there is a directory link.
You will need to determine whether or not there is a DNA lab, and may need to
request additional contact information from the first number you call. In addition to DNA,
other common terms that may get you to a DNA lab are Forensic Biology, or the term
"biology".
PUBLIC HEALTH RELATED DIAGNOSTICS
The US Food and Drug Administration
The Los Angeles County Department of Health
Nicole M. Green, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Public Health Laboratory
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
12750 Erickson Avenue
Downey, CA 90242
Office: (562) 658-1352
nicgreen@ph.lacounty.gov
HOSPITAL-ASSOCIATED and COMMERCIAL MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC LABS,
WHERE CGMBSs WORK.
Contact the education coordinator from the listing below. These labs are very busy. Be
sure to identify your purpose and the class and instructor from which you come.
Clinical
Affiliate
Education
Coordinator
E-mail
Phone
City of Hope
Clinical Molecular
Diagnostics
Laboratory
Clarient Diagnostic
Services Inc.
Kaiser Permanente
Southern California
Medical Genetics
Laboratories
Integrated Oncology
US Labs
Hanlin “Harry” Gao,
MD, PhD, FACMG
hgao@coh.org
626 256-4673
Ext. 64101 or
65316
Debra J. Giroux, MBA,
BS, ASCP(CG), CCS
Rebecca Rosser,
MS, MBS, CLS,
MT[ASCP], DLM
Debra.Giroux@ge.com
949 425-5725
Rebecca.A.Rosser@kp.org
818 503-6898
Bejan Shahbahrami,
MS,
CG/MB (ASCP) CLC
Shabab@LabCorp.com
949 788-9106
NON-ACADEMIC MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
Division of Medical Genetics
Cedars Sinai Research Institute
CITY OF HOPE, Beckman Research Institute
House Ear Institute, Los Angeles
OTHER RESEARCH LOCATIONS
CALTECH, Biology, Pasadena
JET PROPULSION LAB (JPL)
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
Pasadena, CA 91109
Ask for Biology Division
THE SALK INSTITUTE, LaJolla
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Office of Graduate Studies
10666 North Torrey Pines Road
LaJolla, CA 92037
UC Irvine
Molecular Biol. & Biochem. Developmental Biology
UC Irvine Medical School
Microbiol. & Molecular Genetics
Biochemistry
Developmental Biology
UCLA
Molecular Biology Institute
Biology
Biochemistry within the Department of Chemistry
UCLA Medical School
Biological Chemistry
Microbiology and Immunology
Oncology-Hematology
UC Riverside
Plant Pathology
Botany
Biology
Entomology
Biochemistry
Div. of Biomedical Sciences
UC San Diego
USC – University Park Campus
Biology
Molecular Biology
Bacteriology
USC – School of Medicine
Microbiology
Pathology
Pharmacy
Biochemistry
Institute for Genetic Medicine