Parnassus

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

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.

Jason Cyster, PhD studies lymphocyte trafficking and homeostasis.

Jayanta Debnath, MD is working to understand the role and regulation of autophagy in epithelial homeostasis and cancer pathogenesis.

Pamela Den Besten, DDS studies the development of ameloblasts, the cells that deposit enamel on developing teeth, and explores the development of stem cells derived from tooth pulp in the reconstruction of teeth.

Tobias Deuse, MD is developing immune editing strategies to shield stem cells and cell products from immune recognition and rejection. He develops immune-oncology therapeutics and regenerative cell therapies based on this concept.

Marlys Fassett, MD, PhD is a dermatologist and physician-scientist studying the neuroimmune circuits that couple itch and rash. 

Susan Fisher, PhD studies the mechanisms by which human placental cells invade the uterus during pregnancy. She also studies the early steps of differentiation and the maintenance of human embryonic stem cells.

Michael German, MD studies the cascade of gene activation underlying the development of beta cells from less differentiated cells during embryogenesis or from stem cells in the adult pancreas, and how these genes function in the mature beta cell.

Ruby Ghadially, MD is a dermatologist with research interests in skin stem cells and their use for in vivo expansion of keratinocytes for autologous burn and wound therapy.