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Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD

Primary Thematic Area:

Immunology

Secondary Thematic Area:

Virology & Microbial Pathogenesis

Research Summary:

Immune mechanisms that support host-commensal symbiosis

Mentorship Development:

11/23/20 Building Community in the UCSF MSTP
2/16/21 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels

Hilde Schjerven, PhD

Primary Thematic Area:

Immunology

Secondary Thematic Area:

Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling

Research Summary:

Normal and malignant blood cell development, including break of immune tolerance (autoimmunity) and blood cell cancer (leukemia), with a focus on transcriptional regulation.

Mentorship Development:

12/12/19   ACRA: Setting Training Expectations for Trainees on the Academic Career Track (1.5 hours)
3/3/20   Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion (Staff and Faculty)
3/3/20   Promoting Student Mental Health: Faculty Workshop (Faculty only)
4/23/20   Effective Strategies for IDPs
11/10/20   Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
2/18/21   Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels

Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD

Primary Thematic Area:

Vascular & Cardiac Biology

Secondary Thematic Area:

Immunology

Research Summary:

We are molecularly modifying pluripotent stem cell lines to create non-immunogenic cells that are protected from post-transplant rejection without affecting the general immune system.

Bjoern Schwer, MD, PhD

Primary Thematic Area:

Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling

Secondary Thematic Area:

Developmental & Stem Cell Biology

Research Summary:

Genomic instability and DNA repair in neural cells

Mentorship Development:

4/11/19   Acknowleding and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab (Mission Bay)
12/19/19   ACRA: Setting Training Expectations for Trainees on the Academic Career Track (1.5 hours)
3/10/20   Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion (Staff and Faculty)
4/30/20   Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A for Faculty
10/20/20   Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty and Staff

Licia Selleri, PhD, MD

Primary Thematic Area:

Developmental & Stem Cell Biology

Secondary Thematic Area:

Human Genetics

Research Summary:

Genetic and regulatory control of morphogenesis in embryonic development, evolution, and disease

Mentorship Development:

5/2021 Sharpening Your Mentoring Skills
6/2021 Promoting Learner Mental Health
10/2021 Sharpening Your Mentoring Skills

Neil Pravin Shah, MD, PhD

Primary Thematic Area:

Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling

Secondary Thematic Area:

None

Research Summary:

Improving targeted therapeutics for hematologic malignancies

Mentorship Development:

9/11/20 Mentoring Across Differences

Hunter Shain, PhD

Primary Thematic Area:

Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling

Secondary Thematic Area:

Human Genetics

Research Summary:

Our overarching goal is to understand the biology of skin cancer with an emphasis on melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma.

Kevin Shannon, MD

Primary Thematic Area:

Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling

Secondary Thematic Area:

Human Genetics

Research Summary:

Aberrant Ras Signaling in Development and Cancer

Yin Shen, PhD

Primary Thematic Area:

Human Genetics

Secondary Thematic Area:

Developmental & Stem Cell Biology

Research Summary:

Functional genomics, gene regulation, 3D chromatin architecture, and human diseases

Mentorship Development:

5/26/20 Effective Strategies for IDPs for Partial Resumption of Lab Research
9/11/20 Mentoring Across Differences
5/25/21 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)

Dean Sheppard, MD

Primary Thematic Area:

Tissue / Organ Biology & Endocrinology

Secondary Thematic Area:

Immunology

Research Summary:

Functional roles of diverse fibroblast subsets in pulmonary fibrosis, acute lung injury and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Cell-based therapeutics for non-malignant lung diseases.

Mentorship Development:

12/19/19 ACRA: Setting training expectations for trainees on the academic career track