Our Faculty

Rosemary Akhurst, PhD

Professor
HDCCC

Rosemary Akhurst, PhD studies the role of signaling molecules and genetic modifiers in vasculogenesis, the formation of the vascular network during development.

Tamara Alliston, PhD

Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery

Tamara Alliston, PhD studies the mechanobiologic mechanisms supporting skeletal health and driving arthritis, osteoporosis, and bone fragility.

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

Professor
Neurological Surgery

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD studies the origin, migration and functional contribution of neural stem cells born in the adult brain. He has initiated studies exploring progenitor cell transplants for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy.

Mark Anderson, MD, PhD

Professor

Mark Anderson, MD, PhD is the Director of the Diabetes Center. He studies immune tolerance and the role of the thymus in type 1 diabetes and autoimmune disease.

Serine Avagyan, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics

Serine Avagyan, MD, PhD studies blood stem cell clonality and clonal hematopoiesis.

Allan Balmain, PhD

Professor
HDCCC

Allan Balmain, PhD focuses on the role of stem cells in skin and lung cancer. His goal is to identify the critical tumor-originating cells and the mechanisms by which they become transformed, which will aid in both stem cell therapy and cancer therapy.

Scott Baraban, PhD

Professor
Neurological Surgery

Scott Baraban, PhD studies pediatric malformation-associated epilepsies in genetic mouse models to explore how seizures develop. He also researches the potential of embryonic progenitor cells to inhibit epilepsy following transplantation.

Mitchel Berger, MD

Professor
Neurological Surgery

Mitchel Berger, MD studies the correlative biology and outcome of patients with both low-grade and high-grade gliomas.

Sigurd Berven, MD

Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery

Sigurd Berven, MD is an orthopedic spine surgeon who researches the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells in an animal model of disc degeneration.

Daniel Bikle, MD, PhD

Professor
Medicine

Daniel Bikle, MD, PhD studies the hormonal regulation of calcium metabolism in the formation, differentiation and repair of bone and skin tissue, as well as in skin cancer development.

Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD

Professor
Urology

Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD studies gene regulation of pluripotent stem cells, early development, and cancer.

Benoit Bruneau, PhD

Professor
Pediatrics

Benoit Bruneau, PhD is the Director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease. He studies the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of cardiogenesis.

Jeffrey Bush, PhD

Professor
Cell and Tissue Biology

Jeff Bush, PhD studies signaling during normal craniofacial development and in cases of craniofacial birth defects with the goal of developing preventive therapies.

Marcelle Cedars, MD

Professor
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Marcelle Cedars, MD is the Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and the UCSF Reproductive Health Clinic. She studies ovarian aging, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and assisted reproductive methods in clinical and basic studies.

Alice Chan, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Pediatrics

Alice Chan, MD, PhD studies pathways of immune development and regulation in the context of pediatric immune regulatory disorders.

Pao-Tien Chuang, MD, PhD

Professor
Cardiovascular Research Inst

Pao-Tien Chuang, MD, PhD studies Hedgehog signaling in mammalian embryogenesis and postnatal physiology.

Claire Clelland, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Neurology

Claire Clelland, MD, PhD, MPhil aims to develop novel therapies for dementia and related neurodegenerative diseases. Her lab works to create new CRISPR gene editing approaches in human iPSC-derived cell types relevant to disease. They also work to build cell model systems that more faithfully replicate human disease.

Kelsey Collins, PhD

Assistant Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery

Kelsey Collins, PhD uses induced pluripotent stem cells, CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering, mouse models, human tissues, and state-of-the-art multi-omic spatial approaches to define mechanisms and create therapies that have implications for aging, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.

Bruce Conklin, MD

Professor
Medicine

Bruce Conklin, MD is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease. His research focuses on genes involved in abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure with the goal of developing better, more personalized heart drugs. 

Marco Conti, MD

Professor
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Marco Conti, MD focuses on signal transduction required for germ cell development.

Joseph Costello, PhD

Professor
Neurological Surgery

Joseph Costello, PhD studies the onset of tumorigenesis with an emphasis on discovering the mechanisms by which genes accumulate changes that may activate or inactivate tumor genes.

Morton Cowan, MD

Professor Emeritus
Pediatrics

Mort Cowan, MD studies the definitive treatment of children with primary immune deficiencies using hematopoietic stem cells while also running a first-in-human trial of lentiviral mediated gene insertion into autologous stem cells to correct the immune deficiency in Artemis-deficient Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (ART-SCID).

Kyle Cromer, PhD

Assistant Professor
Surgery

Kyle Cromer, PhD focuses on using genome editing to engineer erythropoiesis for clinical applications.

Elizabeth Crouch, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics

Elizabeth "Betsy" Crouch, MD, PhD is a neonatologist, neuroscientist, and vascular biologist who studies neurovascular development. The lab employs single cell omics, flow cytometry, and organoid models to study human brain blood vessel cells during development.

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