Professor Wandless has taken emeritus status as of 1 February 2026, and his lab is no longer active. He can be reached at wandless@stanford.edu.

If you seek reagents associated with the destabilizing domains, most constructs can be found at Addgene, and Shield-1 is available from Cheminpharma.

The destabilizing domain technology is currently being used by Obsidian Therapeutics to treat cancer patients using regulated tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.

Wandless Lab

Lab Members

Lab Alumni

Graduate Students:

Ray, Gregory T. (1995-2000) M.D., Arlington, VA
Woiwode, Thomas F. (1995-2000) Versant Ventures
Stohlmeyer, Michelle .M (1995-2001) Partner, BCG-Chicago
Barco, Joseph W. (1995-2001) Alamar Biosciences
Tanaka, Hiroko (1997-2003) Frontier Medicines
Braun, Patrick D. (1997-2003) New Haven, CT
Amos, Chris (1999-2005) Christian Grey stunt double
Maynard-Smith, Lystranne (2000-2006) CSR @ NIH
Sawayama, Andrew (2000-2006) Encodia
Banaszynski, Laura (2001-2007) Faculty, UTSW
Grimley, Joshua (2001-2007) Universal Cells
Edwards, Sarah (2002-2008) USDA
Sellmeyer, Mark (2005-2010) UPenn, faculty
Iwamoto, Mari (2004-2011) IVD Product Development
Egeler, Emily (2004-2011) Stanford Cell Therapy Ops
Chu, Bernie (2007-2013) Bina Technologies
Miyazaki, Yusuke (2010-2015) ANRI Ventures
Park, Joseph (2017-2024) TBD

Postdocs:

Kar, Ari K. (1998-2000) SACHEM
Vogel, Kurt* (1998-2000) Illumina
Lin, Yun-Ming (2000-2003) University of Toledo
Tang, Lam (2001-2003) Molecular Partners
Bonger, Kimberly (2009-2012) Radboud Univ.
Rakhit, Rishi (2008-2015) Mitokinin
Navarro, Raul (2014-2017) Occidental College
*joint with Jerry Crabtree’s lab

Undergraduate Students:

Patett, Frauke (1996-1997) N/A
Rose, Christoph (1997-1998) Research scientist at Continental
Norman, Derek (1996-1997) PhD with Greg Verdine
Cutler, Serena (1997) Research associate at Tularik
Lau, Nancy (1996) Albert Einstein MD/PhD program
Wirtz, Ryan (2000-2001) Yale in London
Bickford, Lincoln (1997) Stanford to Cornell MD/PhD program
Barglow, Katherine (2001-2003) Grad student with Ben Cravatt, Scripps
Hanan, Emily (2001-2003) Research associate at Sunesis
Erika Ebbel (1998-2000) MIT
Wennerlund, Paola (2003-2004) Uppsala University, Sweden
Ho, Andrew (2008-2009) NY College of Osteopathic Medicine

Visiting Scholars:

Taylor, Loverine (1997-1998) Washington State University
Lee, Kyunghee (2007-2008) Sejong University
Imoto, Hiroshi (2009-2010) Takeda
Miyamae, Yusaku (2015-2016) Tsukuba University

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