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
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
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
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
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
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
Charlie Thel
Like other organs, the heart forms scar tissue in response to stress or injury. Cardiac fibroblasts are the cells in the heart responsible for regulating production and degradation of scar […] Read More
Sumin Hong
In the Zheng Lab, Sumin Hong is developing computational tools to analyze endothelial cell (EC) behavior in 3D brain microvessels following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Her work focuses on creating […] Read More
Janie Johnson
Biological sex plays a role in meniscus injury and regeneration: females experience more tears and worse repair outcomes. As a first year graduate student in the Robinson Lab, Janie Johnson […] Read More