CIRM Scholars

Postdoctoral Awardees

Otto Gudeldorfer

Bill Smith
Ascidian Siphon Regeneration: a tractable model for the origins and mechanisms of chordate regeneration

Sussanah Kasmer

Tony DeTomaso
Prospective Isolation of germline stem cells (GSCs) and competitive seeding of a somatic niche in Botryllus schlosseri

Jack Reifert

Patrick Daugherty
Proteolysis in Cancer Stem Cell Migration

Predoctoral Awardees

Tracy Clevenger

Dennis Clegg
Development of novel 3D scaffolds for soft tissue regeneration

Roxanne Croze

Dennis Clegg
Monitoring Stem Cell Transplants in Ocular Disease: The good, the bad and the ugly

Faye Fong

H. Tom Soh
An Integrated Electrochemical Sensor for High Resolution Continuous Biomarker Profiling of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Reprogramming and Differentiation

Xiao Huang

Norbert Reich
Temporal control of RNAi delivery

Former Postdoctoral Awardees

Minseon Cho

Soh laboratory, Dept. of Materials & Mechanical Engineering
High-throughput discovery of affinity reagents for hESC markers

Oran Erster

Daugherty laboratory, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Engineers conditionally-activated antibodies for site-specific recognition of cancer stem cells.

Qirui Hu

Johnson and Clegg laboratories, CSMD / NRI and Dept. of MCDB
Investigates the reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotent cells.

Min-Jeong Kye

Kosik laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Studies the function of microRNA in the neural differentiation of hESCs.

Eunjoo Lee

Kosik laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Studies the function of non-coding RNAs in the stem cell differentiation.

Yanli Liu

Soh laboratory, NRI and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Studies the in vitro selection of aptamers for transforming growth factor beta using microfluidic-SELEX.

Na Xu

Kosik laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Studies the microRNA regulation of stem cell differentiation and fate determination.

Former Predoctoral Awardees

David Buchholz

Clegg laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates directing hESC differentiation to a retinal pigment epithelial fate.

Nareg Djabrayan

Rothman laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates the genetic mechanisms behind the switch from pluripotency to committed differentiation in the C. elegans embryo.

Poornima Kolhar

Ruoslahti laboratory and Mitragotri laboratory, BMSE Program
Studies synthetic surfaces for human embryonic stem cell culture.

Misty Riddle

Rothman laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates developmental potential and cell fate reprogramming by exploiting the highly accessible functional genomics of C. elegans.

Teisha Rowland

Clegg laboratory, Dept. of MCDB
Investigates the effects of extracellular matrix proteins on human embryonic stem cell and induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation into retinal pigment epithelium.