Emmy Li (graduate student, Biomedical Sciences Program) was awarded the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. In her research, Emmy plans is elucidating the mechanisms by which APOE4, the most common risk gene for Alzheimer's Disease, affects neurons and glia.
On March 6, 2019, Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost Daniel H. Lowenstein and Vice Chancellor of Research Lindsey A. Criswell recognized six UCSF research groups for their excellent safety cultures: The Prakash, Ku, Rosenberg, Gupta, Ron and Kampmann labs.
Dr. Martin Kampmann’s lab was…
Kun Leng, an MD PhD student in the Kampmann Lab, was selected for a highly competitive Keystone Symposia scholarship. Kun's research is focused on understanding the role of astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases, by leveraging a CRISPRi functional genomics platform he established in iPSC-…
Nina Dräger, postdoc in the Kampmann Lab, received the Berkelhammer Postdoc Travel Award. This highly competitive Award supports conference travel by postdocs. Nina Dräger is developing CRISPR-based genetic screening approaches in iPSC-derived human microglia to elucidate mechanisms and…
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) launched the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network. This new network brings together scientists from diverse research fields to understand the underlying causes of neurodegenerative disorders. Following an international open call for applications,…
A major goal of the Kampmann Lab is the identification of new therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s Disease. The lab has developed a CRISPR-based screening platform to identify genes and pathways controlling disease processes in neurons and glia from human patient-…
Over the last 10 years, a growing number of genes contributing to autism and other psychiatric disorders have been identified. The next challenge is to understand how these genes cause disease, and to develop therapeutic strategies. This complex problem called for an interdisciplinary systems…
First-year PhD students in the UCSF iPQB (Biophysics and Bioinformatics) program get a crash-course in being a scientist: they form teams to work on a real-life research project in the PUBS class (Physical Underpinnings of Biological Systems). This class was originated by Dr. Jamie Fraser, building…
Dr. Xiaoyan Guo, postdoctoral fellow in the Kampmann lab, was awarded a fellowship by the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation. In her research, Xiaoyan investigates how mitochondria, famously dubbed the “powerhouse of the cell”, adapt to stress. Mitochondrial stress and dysfunction is a hallmark of aging…
Dr. Poornima Ramkumar, postdoctoral fellow in the Kampmann lab, was awarded the Postdoctoral Fellowship from the UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR). Her goal is to elucidate mechanisms by which cancer cells become resistant to immunotherapy, and to identify combination therapy…
