Class Notes Category: Career
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Tanya Petrossian ’05, Ph.D. ’10
EndoCyclic Therapeutics, founded by Tanya Petrossian ’05, Ph.D. ’10, just announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its lead program, ENDO-205, a first-in-class, non-hormonal targeted peptide therapeutic for endometriosis. The company plans to initiate a Phase 1 clinical study in healthy pre-menopausal women…
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Avelardo Valdez, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’79
Avelardo Valdez, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’79, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, is the author of a new book, “Homeboys Forever: The Lifetime Consequences of Gang Membership,” forthcoming from University of Chicago Press this month. Drawing on more than two decades of longitudinal research, the book follows the lives of Mexican American men…
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David Johnson ’78
David Johnson ’78 has published his memoir, “When All Else Fails, BLAME YOUR MOTHER!” “My years at UCLA in the 1970s were formative in ways I’m only now able to fully articulate,” said Johnson. “The memoir explores identity, resilience and a chapter of LGBTQ+ student experience that was largely invisible at the time. It reflects…
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Lauren Shaifa, M.Arch. ’21
Lauren Shaifa, M.Arch. ’21, was recently promoted to associate by Los Angeles firm CO Architects. She focuses on the firm’s higher education projects and participates in CO Architect’s buddy program for interns and new hires. Shaifa joined CO in 2022 as a designer.
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Le G. Trieu ’03
Le G. Trieu ’03 has joined the Chicago office of leading national law firm Kaufman Dolowich, one of three lawyers joining the firm from Chicago-based BatesCarey LLP. Trieu counsels clients in insurance and reinsurance coverage matters, including healthcare, management and professional liability, and casualty, providing results-oriented guidance on novel and complex issues. Kaufman Dolowich serves…
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Susan McCarthy ’83
Susan McCarthy ’83, a partner with A to Z Law, is the incoming vice president of the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association, a local organization of trial attorneys dedicated to improving the civil justice system, the lawyers who serve it and the overall community around it. McCarthy, whose practice focuses on business, commercial, real property…
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Lucas Love ’04
Accuity, one of Hawaii’s largest accounting and advisory firms, has hired Lucas Love ’04 as tax director, strengthening the firm’s tax advisory and compliance capabilities. Love brings well over a decade of tax law experience, including Carlsmith Ball LLP (partner; later Of Counsel) and Baker & McKenzie advising Silicon Valley companies on international tax matters.…
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Ferran Prat, Ph.D. ’99
Ferran Prat, Ph.D. ’99, chief commercial officer at BostonGene, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Texas Medical Center (TMC). “Ferran Prat has an exceptional record of building strategic partnerships across leading research institutions and biotech companies,” said William McKeon, president and CEO of Texas Medical Center. “His insight into translational science and…
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Marci Darling Johnson ’01
An award-winning documentary recently directed by Marci Darling Johnson ’01, “The Nita & Zita Project,” is now streaming on AppleTV. The film tells the extraordinary story of Jewish sisters in the 1920s who rose to international burlesque stardom, then became recluses and transformed into the ultimate New Orleans eccentrics. Their journey, marked by both the…
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Daniel Freedman, M.A. ’06
Daniel Freedman, M.A. ’06, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s real estate department as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. “Daniel’s experience advising on complex land use and real estate development matters in California, combined with his deep knowledge of CEQA, entitlements, environmental review and municipal law, makes him a strong addition to our…