
Assistant Professor
Cellular Molecular Pharmacology
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Faranak Fattahi, PhD uses human pluripotent stem cells to study the peripheral nervous system in health and disease with the goal of developing novel therapies through drug discovery and regenerative medicine.
Publications
Deriving Schwann cells from hPSCs enables disease modeling and drug discovery for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
Cell stem cell
Generation of Schwann cell derived melanocytes from hPSCs identifies pro-metastatic factors in melanoma.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Diseased, differentiated and difficult: Strategies for improved engineering of in vitro neurological systems.
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience
Stem Cell-Based Models for Studying the Effects of Cancer and Cancer Therapies on the Peripheral Nervous System.
Advanced biology
Androgens increase excitement in brain organoid research.
Cell stem cell
A dual SHOX2:GFP; MYH6:mCherry knockin hESC reporter line for derivation of human SAN-like cells.
iScience
5-Fluorouracil: A Narrative Review on the Role of Regulatory Mechanisms in Driving Resistance to This Chemotherapeutic Agent.
Frontiers in oncology
The interaction between miRNAs/lncRNAs and nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) in human disorders.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie
Surface Proteomics Reveals CD72 as a Target for In Vitro-Evolved Nanobody-Based CAR-T Cells in KMT2A/MLL1-Rearranged B-ALL.
Cancer discovery
Prospective Isolation of ISL1+ Cardiac Progenitors from Human ESCs for Myocardial Infarction Therapy.
Stem cell reports
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Sensory Neurons are Sensitive to the Neurotoxic Effects of Paclitaxel.
Clinical and translational science
Androgen Signaling Regulates SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Levels and Is Associated with Severe COVID-19 Symptoms in Men.
Cell stem cell
Androgen Regulates SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Levels and Is Associated with Severe COVID-19 Symptoms in Men.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Generation of Knockout Gene-Edited Human Intestinal Organoids.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
HSP90-incorporating chaperome networks as biosensor for disease-related pathways in patient-specific midbrain dopamine neurons.
Nature communications
Prospective Isolation of ISL1+ Cardiac Progenitors from Human ESCs for�Myocardial Infarction Therapy.
Stem cell reports
A Modular Platform for Differentiation of Human PSCs into All Major Ectodermal Lineages.
Cell stem cell
Combined small-molecule inhibition accelerates the derivation of functional cortical neurons from human pluripotent stem cells.
Nature biotechnology
Capturing the biology of disease severity in a PSC-based model of familial dysautonomia.
Nature medicine
Neural Crest Cells from Dual SMAD Inhibition.
Current protocols in stem cell biology
Feeder-free derivation of neural crest progenitor cells from human pluripotent stem cells.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Ankyloglossia and tongue mobility.
European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry
Disease-corrected hepatocyte-like cells from familial hypercholesterolemia-induced pluripotent stem cells.
Molecular biotechnology