PhD candidate, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine
Biography
Faranak Fattahi has been a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Lorenz Studer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. During her doctoral studies, she focused on development of new strategies to derive lineages of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and demonstrated their potential for disease modeling, drug discovery, and regenerative medicine. Upon completion of her graduate training, she will join the University of California, San Francisco as a Sandler Faculty Fellow to launch her research program on the application of hPSCs for the study of the human PNS in health and disease.