Principal Investigator

Karen L. Christman, PhD

Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering

Pierre Galletti Endowed Chair for Bioengineering Innovation

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Welfare, Jacobs School of Engineering

Co-Director, Sanford Advanced Therapy Center, Sanford Stem Cell Institute

Co-Director, T32 Bioengineering NHLBI Graduate Training Program

Co-Editor-in-Chief of npj Regenerative Medicine

Dr. Christman received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from the UC San Francisco and Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Graduate Group.  She was  NIH postdoctoral fellow at UCLA prior to joining UC San Diego.  She is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, and has received several awards including the NIH Director’s New Innovator and Transformative Research Awards, the TERMIS Young Investigator and Senior Scientist Awards, the Society for Biomaterials Clemson Award for Applied Research, and the AIMBE Professional Impact Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  Dr. Christman is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors and an entrepreneur, having co-founded Ventrix Bio, Inc. and Karios Technologies, Inc.

Staff

Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate Students 

Undergraduates

Elyse Wong

Julian Cheng

Joshua Tesero

Estefania Encisco Pelayo

Sriya Paleti

Hillary Tran

Benjamin Bridgelal

Jane Li

Kate Reimold

Selena Cao

Alexa Roa

Elliott Ou

Michelle Tran

Connor Uhre

Sunny Um

Lab Alumni

Airong Song, Ph.D

Gregory Grover, Ph.D

Roberto Gaetani, Ph.D

Mary Nguyen, Ph.D

Andrea Luthi, Ph.D

Gina Policastro, Ph.D

Ryan Middleton, Ph.D

Camryn Johnson, Ph.D

Jennifer Singelyn, Ph.D

Jessica DeQuach, Ph.D 

Aboli Rane, Ph.D

Sonya Seif-Naraghi, Ph.D

Adam Young, Ph.D

Nikhil Rao, Ph.D

Sophia Suarez, Ph.D

Todd Johnson, Ph.D

Jean Wang Wassenaar, Ph.D

Jessica Ungerleider, Ph.D

Melissa Hernandez, Ph.D

Raymond Wang, Ph.D

Marty Spang, Ph.D

Pamela Duran, Ph.D

Holly Sullivan, Ph.D

Miranda Diaz, Ph.D

Jervaughn Hunter, Ph.D.

Josh Mesfin, Ph.D

Emma Zelus, Ph.D

Kevin Chung, M.S.

Priya Sundaramurthy, M.S.

Kristina Javor (EPFL), M.S.

Stephen Lin, M.S.

Aubrey Smith, M.S.

Heinz Strassle, M.S.

Hillary Lam, M.S.

Soraya Aouad, M.S.

Eva van Ingen, M.S.

Lea de Maddalena, M.S.

Vera Pieters, M.S.

Austin Burdick, M.S.

Masaki Fujita, M.S.

Takayuki Kato, M.S.

Danna Du, M.S.