Sean Sherman
Graduate Student, 2008-2012 California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Predoctoral Training Grant (T1-00005), 2008-2011 Warsaw Fellowship – MIMG/UCLA, 2011-2012 MIMG Department Retreat Speaker, 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow/Scientist at Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute in Dr. Anne Bang’s Lab, La Jolla, San Diego Current Position: Fate Therapeutics,…
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Jackelyn Alva, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2011 Current Position: Research Scientist in Dr. Brigitte Gomperts’s Lab, UCLA UC Regent’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2010 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (relinquished due to overlapping funding), 2008-2009 Tumor Immunology Postdoctoral Training Grant Fellowship (NIH T32-CA009120), 2007-2008 Research Scientist- University of California, Santa Barbara…
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Shahab Younesi
Masters Student, Pyle lab CIRM Bridges Funding, 2014-2015 Bachelors of Science and Masters, Cal State Northridge, CIRM Bridges Fellow, SRA, UCLA Current Position: Broad Stem Cell Center GMP Team Member
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Mandee Yang
Bachelors of Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Corey Switzler
Corey is a 4th year MIMG undergraduate student majoring in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics. He is also in the Biomedical Research Minor at UCLA. Corey’s project is focused on improving our understanding of differences across disease muscle mouse models and developing strategies to improve…
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Peggie Chien
Previous Training: University of Rochester, Rochester, New York The mechanisms behind how skeletal muscle progenitor cells (SMPCs) and satellite cells (SCs) arise across human development are not well understood. My research focuses on understanding the molecular differences among different SMPC and SC states in human myogenic…
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Kholoud Saleh
Previous training: Dr. Reza Ardehali Lab, UCLA and Qatar University, Bachelors of Science My research focuses on the molecular and functional properties of muscle progenitor cells and muscle stem cells derived from human development and from human pluripotent stem cells. We are evaluating the functional…
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Courtney Young, Ph.D.
Graduate Students Previous training: University College London, Johns Hopkins University and UCLA My research focuses on developing a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing platform to correct the reading frame for up to 60% of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients. We have demonstrated efficacy in DMD human induced pluripotent…
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Matt Romero, Ph.D.
Previous training: Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Cells put forth complex regulatory programs that work to control their identity. These programs are unique to their respective cell types, but how do these programs start and how exactly do cells “know” how/when to become a specific type?…
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Michael Hicks, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2015-2020 Previous training: Arizona State University and University of Arizona What allows transplanted stem cells to self-renew? My goal is to determine when and where donor muscle cells take up position in the stem cell niche, to regulate muscle stem cell genes, and…
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