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| Rebecca Adami, MD
Clinical Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine | Johns Hopkins University
Doctor of Medicine
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am a fellow in MFM and have an interest in neonatal HIE and abnormal
placentation. I am currently working to use miRNAs to differentiate between
normal placentation, placenta previa, and degrees of the placenta accreta
spectrum.
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| Peter DeHoff
Staff Research Associate
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I provide technical expertise and support to various
projects within the department. Projects encompass ExRNA NGS, ExDNA NGS,
WGBS, NGS data processing/analysis, DNA construct design/cloning, and
biochemical fractionation of protein/particles from human serum/plasmas/stem
cell culture materials.
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| Nguyen Do
Undergraduate Volunteer
| University of California,
San Diego
BS Human Biology Candidate
| I am a premedical undergraduate student interested in the research of reproductive health. My project explores trophoblast stem cell reprogramming, and its relation to maternal medicine.
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| Victoria Doan
Clinical Research Assistant
| University of California,
San Diego
BS Human Biology Candidate
| I am a Clinical Research Assistant at the Maternal Fetal Care and Genetics Center. I consent pregnant patients for various research studies and have clerical duties such as data entry. I have experience in doing community outreach to improve health/public policies and helping others in my local community as a medical volunteer.
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| Marni Jacobs, PhD, MPH
Assistant Adjunct Professor
| University of California,
San Diego
Doctor of Philosophy | I am a perinatal epidemiologist interested in research focused on attaining
and maintaining a healthy pregnancy, particularly within the context of early,
modifiable risk factors for poor pregnancy outcomes. I specialize in
study design and methodology for both primary and secondary data collection.
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| JoonHo Lee, MD, PhD
Visiting Scholar
| Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Doctor of Medicine
| I'm an Obstetrician-Gynecologist and a subspecialist in Maternal-Fetal
Medicine. I'm interested in understanding the mechanisms of high-risk
pregnancies including preterm birth. My project focuses on the extracellular
RNA research in Obstetric fields, especially on the detection and
quantification of microRNAs in biofluid samples using the magnetic
nanosensor-based technology.
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| Emily Liu
Clinical Research Coordinator
| University of California,
San Diego
BS Human Biology
| I am one of the clinical research coordinators at UCSD Labor and Delivery and the Diabetes clinic. My research projects are focused on discovering and validating biomarkers for pregnancy complications and improving prenatal obstetric management of Type 2 Diabetes.
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| Xiru Liu, MD, PhD
Visiting Scholar
| The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
Doctor of Medicine
| I'm an Associate Professor in Reproductive Medicine Center. I'm interested in maternal-fetal interface research and molecular mechanisms of placenta formation.
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| Celestine Magallanes
Clinical Research Coordinator
| University of California,
San Diego
BS Human Biology
| I am a clinical research coordinator for Reproductive Medicine. I am involved in the research of using bio-markers to predict various pregnancy outcomes, as well as finding ways to improve the accuracy of non-invasive genetic testing.
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| Morgan Meads
Clinical Research Coordinator
| University of Texas at Arlington/Austin
BS Biology
| I am also responsible for the preparation and maintenance of regulatory
documents associated with our ongoing research projects.
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| Amber Morey
CIRM Intern
| SUNY
Oneonta
BS Biology
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am an SDSU CIRM Intern that is pursuing a Master of Science in Cell and
Molecular Biology. I am interested in signal transduction pathways, protein interactions,
and just looking to understanding how humans work at the cellular level. My
ultimate goal is to obtain my Ph.D in CMB and work as professor encouraging
other students to enter into the scientific research field.
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| Rob
Morey
Research Associate | San
Diego State University
MBA with a concentration in finance | In my
projects, I apply a variety of genomic/ epigenomic methods to understand
the relationships between human pluripotent stem cells and their
derivatives. Our results help us understand the contribution of
different reprogramming methods to the transcriptional and epigenetic
signatures of stem cell lines, and to determine whether patient-specific
stem cells can be used to accurately model their disease.
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| Priya Pantham, PhD
Assistant Project Scientist
| University
of Auckland, New Zealand
Doctor of Philosophy
| My research background is in applying high throughout multi-omics approaches to investigate placental function in obstetric disorders such as preeclampsia, preterm birth, and intrauterine growth restriction. In my current project I am investigating placental extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a link between placental and renal dysfunction in preeclampsia. I am using next generation sequencing to profile urinary EV exRNA in normal pregnancy and preeclampsia in order to identify RNA biomarkers and understand disease pathology.
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| Donna Pham
Clinical Research Volunteer
| University of California, San Diego
BS Public Health Candidate
| I am a second year undergraduate student interested in pursuing medicine as a career. I work with the clinical research coordinators to consent pregnant patients, process biospecimens, and input patient data for the placenta biomarker study.
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| Chandana Tekkatte
Research Associate
| University of Sheffield
Regenerative Medicine
| My research here focuses on developing in vitro models
for studying Placental physiology and function. We are designing
a 3-D biomimetic 'Placenta-on-a-chip' microfluidics device to
comprehensively model the materno-fetal interactions in vitro. In
parallel, we are also optimizing human placental explant
culture protocols (from healthy and diseased pregnancies) specifically for
investigating Extra-cellular Vesicles (EV) release and function of exRNAs in
placental disease pathology. Besides primary placental studies, genetic
manipulation of human pluripotent stem cells is also used as a developmental
model to help unravel the complex functional roles of key transcription factors
in trophoblast formation.
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 | Cuong To
Bioinformatic Specialist
| University of West Bohemia
| My research focuses on applying and developing data mining methods and
mathematical models for biological datasets such as transcriptomics,
proteomics, next generation sequencing, gene regulatory networks,
protein-protein interactions networks, etc. I currently use clustering methods,
biclustering methods, visualization methods, classification methods, regression models, feature selections, etc. on next generation
sequencing datasets.
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| Tracy Tran
Clinical Research Assistant
| University of California, San Diego
BS Human Biology Candidate
| I am a Human Biology major at UC San Diego at Eleanor Roosevelt College.
I work under Dr. Laurent as a Clinical Research Assistant at Jacobs
Medical Center. I also work with Dr. Parast on pathology examinations of
placenta.
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| Cassandra Wang
Undergraduate Volunteer
| University of California, San Diego
BS Human Biology Candidate
| I am a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in Human Biology and
minoring in Psychology. My project focuses on the reprogramming of human MSC's into
induced trophoblast stem cells through the overexpression of certain
transcription factors. After graduating from college, I plan on pursuing a
career in medicine.
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