Faculty

All of the faculty associated with the DSCB graduate program are listed below. Click on a faculty name to view a detailed description of an individual research program, contact information, recent publications and links to other relevant websites.
 

Holly Ingraham, PhD

Hertzstein Distinguished Investigator
Professor & Associate Vice Chairman
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Research Summary: 
Mechanisms of Hormone Action in Organ Development and Disease

Yuh Nung Jan, PhD

Howard Hughes Investigator
Professor
Department of Physiology
Research Summary: 
We are interested in the mechanisms underlying normal development of the nervous system and use that information to gain insights about the cellular and molecular causes of neurological disorders, and the regulation of axon and dendrite regeneration.

Leanne Jones, PhD

Professor, Anatomy
Director, Bakar Aging Research Institute Anatomy
Anatomy
Research Summary: 
Defining conserved mechanisms regulating stem cell behavior and how these are altered with age and in response to chronic or acute changes in metabolism.

Yuet Kan, MD

Professor
Department of Medicine
Research Summary: 
Control of Gene Expression

Ophir Klein, PhD, MD

Chief, Division of Genetics
Chair, Divisions of Craniofacial Anomalies and Orthodontics
Director, Program in Craniofacial Biology
Professor
Department of Orofacial Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
Research Summary: 
Developmental genetics of organ formation and regeneration

Sarah Knox, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Cell & Tissue Biology
Research Summary: 
Mechanisms Guiding Epithelial Organogenesis and Tissue Regeneration

Tom Kornberg, PhD

Professor
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Research Summary: 
Cell signaling and signal transduction

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD

Founding Director
Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Department of Neurology
Research Summary: 
Neural Stem Cells and Embryonic Cortical Development

Max Krummel, PhD

Professor
Department of Pathology
Research Summary: 
The Immune Response in 4 Dimensions

Diana Laird, PhD

Professor
Department of Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Research Summary: 
Genetic and environmental mechanisms of germline development

Deepak Lamba, PhD

Associate Professor
Ophthalmology

Wendell Lim, PhD

Professor
Cellular Molecular Pharmacology

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