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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.

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.

UCSF Broad Stem Cell Center Director, Tippi MacKenzie, MD, is focused on developing safe and effective stem cell transplantation and other therapies for fetuses with congenital anomalies. In utero stem cell transplantation could treat diseases in which stem cells are missing or mutated, such as immunodeficiencies, inborn errors of metabolism, or muscular dystrophy.

Holger Willenbring, MD explores the way liver cells differentiate and regenerate with the goal of correcting liver diseases using cells derived from stem cells or by reprogramming hematopoietic cells.