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Evelyn Abraham

As an ISCRM postdoctoral fellow, Evelyn Abraham will validate reprogramming of human Müller glia as a treatment for retinal degenerative diseases. She will use patient-derived retinal organoids to model late-stage […] Read More

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Molly McCloskey

As a Postdoctoral Fellow, McCloskey is part of a team developing gene therapeutics to treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neuromuscular disease. In order to combat challenges in drug […] Read More

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Riya Keshri

As a postdoctoral fellow, Riya Keshri will be developing treatment for various muscle atrophies including Sarcopenia using synthetic AI-designed proteins. Dr. Keshri will be identifying synthetic designed binders against RTKs/RSTKs […] Read More

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Giulia Spennati

With an ISCRM fellowship, Giulia Spennati, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Freedman and Fu Lab, aims to identify the molecular and mechanical mechanism leading to podocyte injury in kidney organoids exposed to hyperglycemic […] Read More

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Marina Pavlou, PhD

ISCRM fellowship funding will allow Marina Pavlou, PhD to test the potential of growth factors Ascl1 and Atoh1 to reinstate developmental plasticity in adult non-human primate Müller glia. The goal […] Read More

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Christian Mandrycky, PhD

As a postdoctoral fellow, Christian Mandrycky will test a hypothesis that MYH3 mutations (implicated in the skeletal muscle disorder Distal arthrogryposis) alter both the mechanics of the contractile apparatus as […] Read More

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Damien Detraux, PhD

In collaboration with the Institute for Protein Design (IPD – UW), postdoctoral fellow Damien Detraux will use synthetic AI-designed proteins to robustly and specifically target signaling pathways though RTKs-modulating mini-binders […] Read More