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Sofia Jepson

The muscle spindle is a skeletal muscle stretch receptor that is vital to proprioception, your body’s ability to sense its position in space. There are major gaps in our understanding […] Read More

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Chrystal Guzman

 My doctoral research investigates how a small RNA molecule, microRNA-192, guides human stem cells toward a pancreatic beta cell fate. Using a CRISPR-Cas9-engineered, inducible miRNA system, I aim to improve […] Read More

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Ramila Gulieva

Current human kidney organoid models, derived from pluripotent stem cells, face significant limitations. They remain structurally immature, functionally incomplete, and often highly variable between batches, lacking the vascularization and specialized […] Read More

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Noah Jackson Bowers

As an ISCRMU fellow, Noah will research the potential of the use of electrophysiologic DNA gene editing in the creation of stem cell lines for improved cardiac remuscularizaton therapy. Specifically, […] Read More

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Caleb Kono

Skeletal muscle has an extraordinary ability to regenerate, but this process declines sharply with age and disease, leading to weakness and frailty. A major challenge is that the genetic programs […] Read More

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Divya Avnoor

Since their introduction in 2006, human iPSCs have enabled a generation of lineage-specific cell lines and organoids. However, bridging in vitro findings to whole-organism outcomes remains slow. Supported by an […] Read More

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Theresa Chen

With support from the ISCRM Fellowship, Theresa is developing two complementary high-throughput single-cell techniques to investigate disease-associated enhancers in retinal organoids. Enhancers—noncoding DNA elements that regulate gene expression—have been linked to […] Read More

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Olivia Waters

As an ISCRM fellow, Olivia will investigate human placental cells’ tolerance to severe genomic stress. Compared to their parental human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), trophoblast stem cells (TSCs) and placentas […] Read More

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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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Dorice Goune

Liver disease causes millions of deaths each year, yet scientists still lack the detailed structural information needed to 3D print a working liver. With support from ISCRM Fellowship, Dorice Goune […] Read More