Scientists

Agnieszka Kalinowski, MD, PhD

Agnieszka Kalinowski, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dr. Kalinowski is a board-certified psychiatrist and scientist whose work bridges clinical psychiatry and molecular neuroscience. She earned her MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and her PhD in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and completed psychiatry residency at Stanford. She founded the Kalinowski Laboratory to bring rigorous, patient-centered science to serious mental illness. Her research focuses on the neuroimmune basis of synaptic pathology in psychiatric disease.

Katherine Fisher, MS

Katherine Fisher, MS

Lab Manager

Katie has a master's in Biotechnology from the University of Nevada, Reno. She specializes in molecular and microbiological method development and has led projects in waterborne pathogen detection and in space biology at NASA Ames Research Center for two spaceflight missions. In the Kalinowski lab, Katie is applying her interdisciplinary background to optimize Array Tomography for human brain samples and supporting the team as Lab Manager.

Rivka Steinberg

Rivka Steinberg

Visiting Scholar

Rivka Steinberg is a MD candidate at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research interests center on the role of the hormonal–immune axis in psychiatric disease and how a better understanding of these interactions may lead to improved patient care. She earned her bachelor's degree in Neurobiology and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Marcus Ho, MS

Marcus Ho, MS

LSRPII

Marcus has a masters degree from UC Merced College and a long time Stanford employee. He has a broad skillset including iPS cell culture, CRISPR, sample preparation for Array Tomography with the ultramicrotome, immunofluorescent microscopy and genomic extractions

Interested in joining the team?

We welcome students, postdocs, and collaborators who are passionate about the intersection of immunity, the synapse, and mental health.