Assistant Professor

Department of Bioengineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program

huinanliu@engr.ucr.edu

Dr. Liu's research involves design, fabrication and evaluation of novel biomaterials for tissue regeneration and controlled drug delivery and actively explores nanomaterials and nanotechnology for medical applications.

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

htsutsui@engr.ucr.edu

Dr. Tsutsui's research involves developing novel engineering methods to control the fate of stem cells toward successful translation into regenerative medicine.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience

aobenaus@dominion.llumc.edu

Dr. Obenaus serves as the Director of the Non-Invasive Imaging Laboratory in the Radiation Biology Program at Loma Linda University. His laboratory is well known for its state-of-the-art equipment. His expertise is in the area of neuroimaging of disease, and the Noninvasive Imaging Laboratory has experience with a broad range of topics and models of disease including Alzhiemers and neurorepair using stem cells.

Academic Coordinator

Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience & Stem Cell Center

duncan@ucr.edu

Dr. Liew's research is mainly focused on the mechanisms of human ES cell differentiation and stem cell reprogramming.

Professor

Biomedical Sciences

ameae.walker@ucr.edu

Dr. Walker's research is concerned with the growth factor activities of the hormone prolactin and examining methods to therapeutically target stem cells in breast cancer.

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry

frank.sauer@ucr.edu

Dr. Sauer’s lab studies the role of non-coding RNA in stem cell differentiation. This may lead to better ways to control differentiation of stem cells into cells that can be used to treat specific diseases

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry

noboru.sato@ucr.edu

Dr. Sato studies the maintenance of pluripotency in embryonic stem cells. Maintaining pluripotent populations of stem cells is an important first step in curing degenerative diseases.

Assistant Professor

Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience

nicole.zurnieden@ucr.edu

Dr. zur Nieden’s lab studies differentiation of stem cells into osteoblasts (bone forming cells) and uses bioreactors to produce bulk quantities of differentiating cells that could potentially be used to treat diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis.

Professor of Cell Biology & Director of Stem Cell Center

Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience

talbot@ucr.edu

Dr. Talbot’s lab is developing assays that will enable human embryonic stem cells to be used to monitor and identify environmental toxicants and also studies differentiation of oocytes from stem cells.

Professor Presidential Chair, Chemistry

michael.pirrung@ucr.edu

Dr. Pirrung’s lab uses small organic molecules to control pluripotency and differentiation in stem cells.

Assistant Professor

Department of Bioengineering

jaiyu_liao@ucr.edu

Dr. Liao studies signal transduction pathways in embryonic stem cells and recently discovered a new pathway for maintaining pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells.

Professor

Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience

frances_sladek@ucr.edu

Dr. Sladek studies liver cell differentiation and is developing projects that may help in the treatment of diseases such as diabetes.