2022-23 Cohort
| CIRM Scholar | Role | Laboratory | Research Topic |
| Matthew Jones, MD |
Clinical Fellow, Hematology/Oncology | Catherine Smith, MD | Modeling treatment resistant monocytic AML using induced pluripotent stem cells |
| Corynn Kasap, MD, PhD | Clinical Fellow, Hematology/Oncology | Arun Wiita, MD, PhD | Multi-functional gene-engineered cellular therapy to limit toxicity and overcome tumor heterogeneity in AML |
| Shabrina Amirruddin, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Cell & Tissue Biology | Julie Sneddon, PhD | Engineering Human Pancreatic Stem Cell-derived Islets for Cell Replacement For Diabetes |
| Jaejun Kim, DVM, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow. Dept. of Surgery | Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD | Improving efficacy and safety of AAV liver gene therapy by capsid selection in human livers |
| Yue (Harry) Liu, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics | Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD | Gene editing therapies for Bardet-Biedl syndrome-associated retinal degeneration |
| Hai Nguyen, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences | Nadav Ahituv, PhD | CRISPRa therapy for obesity utilizing adipose stem cell derived organoids |
| Sara Nolbrant, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurology | Alex Pollen, PhD | An Evolutionary Model for Human-Specific Vulnerabilities in Dopaminergic Neurons |
| Nabora Reyes de Barboza, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Medicine (Pulmonary) | Tien Peng, MD, PhD | Assessing the role of lymphatic endothelial cells in intestinal stem cell maintenance and regeneration |
| Huaigeng Xu, MD, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Urology | Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD |
Developing an anti-tumor vaccine using PSC-derived dendritic cells with tumor-derived exosomes |
| Orry Elor, MS |
Graduate Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences & Pharmacogenomics Graduate Program | Michael McManus, PhD | Illuminating Stem Cell Differentiation with Polyspecific CRISPR |
| Karissa Hansen | Graduate Student, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program | Elphege Nora, PhD | Elucidating the role of DNA loop extrusion in transcriptional regulation |
| Kim Meneses | Graduate Student, Tetrad Graduate Program | Zev Gartner, PhD | Importance of Beta Cell Structural Niche for Human Islet of Langerhans Function |
| Indigo Rose, MS | Graduate Student, Neuroscience Graduate Program | Martin Kampmann, PhD | Uncovering neuronal and glial mechanisms of neurodegeneration using CRISPR-based functional genomics |