Leadership & Key Members
The Broad Stem Cell Research Center’s membership represents a diverse group of UCLA faculty committed to advancing stem cell research and its application to clinical medicine. Faculty members are in pursuit of breakthroughs that may lead to treatments for musculoskeletal diseases, cancer, blood disorders, and neurological disorders, among others. Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D. is the center's renowned director. He is joined by associate directors Brigitte Gomperts, M.D., Siavash Kurdistani, M.D. and William Lowry, Ph.D. in leading a team of world-class researchers in the translation of laboratory breakthroughs to new diagnostics and therapies.
Members
Brigitte Gomperts, M.D.
Associate Director of Translational Research, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center; Professor, Pediatrics; Pulmonary Medicine
Email: bgomperts@mednet.ucla.edu
Thomas Graeber, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology; Director, UCLA Metabolomics Center
Email: tgraeber@mednet.ucla.edu
Oluwatayo (Tayo) F. Ikotun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Email: Oikotun@mednet.ucla.edu
Steven Jacobsen, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; Professor, Biological Chemistry
Email: jacobsen@ucla.edu
Donald B. Kohn, M.D.
Distinguished Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics; Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology); Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Email: Dkohn1@mednet.ucla.edu
Harley Kornblum, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Pediatrics; Director, Neural Stem Cell Research Center, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Email: hkornblum@mednet.ucla.edu
Siavash Kurdistani, M.D.
Associate Director of Technology Development, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center; Professor and Chair, Biological Chemistry
Email: skurdistani@mednet.ucla.edu
Song Li, Ph.D.
Chancellor Professor and Chair, Bioengineering; Professor, Medicine
Email: songli@ucla.edu
William Lowry, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Education and Technology Transfer, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center; Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Email: blowry@mcdb.ucla.edu