Curriculum Vitæ

2022 - Calvin J. Kuo, MD, PhD
Stanford University, Hematology
Clinical Fellow / Postdoctoral Fellow

2011 - 2016 William E. Lowry, PhD

                           UCLA, Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
Graduate Student

Genetic and RNA-based mechanisms of human stem cell developmental maturity and fate decisions

Dissertation title: Multilevel regulation of the let-7 miRNAs coordinates human central nervous system developmental maturation

2007 - 2010 Raphael Guzman, MD

Stanford University, Neurosurgery
Research Assistant

Neural stem cell transplantation therapy and imaging for ischemic stroke 

Cinkornpumin J, Roos M, Nguyen L, Liu X, Gaeta X, Lin S, Chan DN, Liu A, Gregory RI, Jung M, Chute J, Zhu H, Lowry WE. 2017. A small molecule screen to identify regulators of let-7 targets. Scientific reports. 7 (1): 15973. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16258-9. link 

Gaeta X, Le L, Lin Y, Xie Y, Lowry WE. 2017. Defining Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms for Primary let-7 miRNAs. PLoS ONE. 12 (1): e0169237. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169237. link 

Gu W, Gaeta X, Sahakyan A, Chan AB, Hong CS, Kim R, Braas D, Plath K, Lowry WE, Christofk HR. 2016. Glycolytic Metabolism Plays a Functional Role in Regulating Human Pluripotent Stem Cell State. Cell Stem Cell. 19 (4), 476-490. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.08.008. link 

Germanguz I, Listgarten J, Cinkornpumin J, Solomon A, Gaeta X, and Lowry WE. Identifying gene expression modules that define human cell fates. Stem Cell Research (2016). doi:10.1016/j.scr.2016.04.008. link

Patterson M*, Gaeta X*, Loo K, Edwards M, Smale S, Cinkornpumin J, Xie Y, Listgarten J, Azghadi S, Douglass SM, Pellegrini M, Lowry WE. 2014. let-7 miRNAs can act through Notch to control human gliogenesis. Stem Cell Reports. 2014; 3, 758–773. doi: 10.1016/j.STEMCR.2014.08.015. link

Xie Y, Zhang J, Lin Y, Gaeta X, Meng X, Wisidagama DRR, Cinkornpumin J, Koehler CM, Malone CS, Teitell MA, Lowry WE. 2014. Defining the Role of Oxygen Tension in Human Neural Progenitor Fate. Stem Cell Reports. 2014; 3(5):743-757. doi: 10.1016/j.STEMCR.2014.09.021. link

Gaeta X, Xie Y & Lowry WE. 2013. Sequential addition of reprogramming factors improves efficiency. Nature Cell Biology 15, 725–727. link

Andres RH, Choi R, Pendharkar AV, Gaeta X, Wang N, Nathan JK, Chua JY, Lee SW, Palmer TD, Steinberg GK, Guzman R. 2011. The CCR2/CCL2 Interaction Mediates the Transendothelial Recruitment of Intravascularly Delivered Neural Stem Cells to the Ischemic Brain. Stroke, 2011:42:2923-2931. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.606368. link

Chua JY, Pendharkar AV, Wang N, Choi R, Andres RH, Gaeta X, Zhang J, Moseley ME, Guzman R. 2011. Intra-arterial injection of neural stem cells using a microneedle technique does not cause microembolic strokes. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 2011:31:1263-1271. doi:10.1038/JCBFM.2010.213. link

Pendharkar AV, Chua JY, Andres RH, Wang N, Gaeta X, Wang H, De A, Choi R, Chen S, Rutt BK, Gambhir SS, Guzman R. 2010. Biodistribution of Neural Stem Cells After Intravascular Therapy for Hypoxic-Ischemia. Stroke, 2010:41: 2064-2070. doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.575993. link

2022                                      AMSPDC Pediatrician Scientist Development Program (PSDP) K-12 Fellow

2022                                      Stanford Maternal Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) Grant Awardee
  Marion and Jack Euphrat Pediatric Translational Medicine Fellow 

                                               Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Postdoctoral Fellow

2022                                 Stanford Transplant and Tissue Engineering Center of Excellence Fellowship

2021                                     UCLA Pediatric Residency Alice Litman Moss Award in Outstanding Clinical Care, Scholarship, and Professionalism during Residency

2020                                   ASPN Resident Travel Grant Awardee

2018                                   UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Emil Bogen Research Prize

2017                                   Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Medical Honor Society

2014                                   NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award F31 NIGMS

2014                                   UCLA Whitcome Pre-doctoral Training Program in Molecular Biology

2014                                   Outstanding Poster award. UCLA Molecular Biology Institute retreat

2013                                   Poster award, Graduate Division. UCLA Molecular Cell & Dev Bio retreat

2009                                   Stanford University Bio-X Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2009                                   Stanford University Undergraduate Advising and Research Grant

2008                                   Leadership Alliance / SR-EIP Summer Research Fellowship