Research & Labs

Dr. Lena Pernas gives TEDx Talk

Dr. Pernas poses a new framework to view metabolism during infection.

Dr. April Pyle's involvement in Stem Cell Research paves the way towards Regeneration Skeletal Muscle

UCLA researchers have made headway using muscle stem cells to regrow damaged muscle in mice.

Toward Ageless Muscles: The Stem Cell Solution

A new study brings us one step closer to being able to regenerate muscle “artificially.”

Drs. Gunsalus and Zhou solve the structure of the Methanospirillum Hungatei Sheath

Collaboration across MIMG labs resulted in solving the structure of the Methanospirillum hungatei sheath using a combination of prediction methods.

Scientists develop roadmap to create new treatment strategies for ovarian cancer

Interdisciplinary collaboration between the labs of Lili Yang and Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh.

Dr. Jing Wen and UCLA Researchers develop a new treatment to help the Immune System fight and kill Solid Tumors

Tiny capsule increases the number and activity of immune cells that attack solid tumors.

Dr. Mehdi Bouhaddou featured in Mount Sinai Press

Dr. Mehdi Bouhaddou is involved in collaborative research between UCSF QBI, University College London, and Mount Sinai.

Dr. Maureen Su’s Interdisciplinary Research with IRAEs

This study sheds light on the cause of an emerging group of endocrine autoimmune diseases that occur in patients treated with checkpoint immunotherapy.

Drs. Su and O'Sullivan’s lab identifies UTX as the key driver of sex differences in NK cell Antiviral Activity

The X-linked epigenetic regulator UTX controls NK cell-intrinsic sex differences.

Dr. Elaine Hsiao To Head Newly-Established Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center

Andrea and Donald Goodman and Renee and Meyer Luskin have made a $20 million gift to establish the UCLA Goodman–Luskin Microbiome Center.

Dr. Yvonne Chen’s Work with ImmPACT Bio Approved by FDA

Pioneering work of Yvonne Chen, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Manish Butte Lab ‘SymphNode’ Device Featured in Nature Biomedical Engineering

An interdisciplinary UCLA research team, which includes Dr. Manish Butte’s lab, reports encouraging results in laboratory studies

Dr. Lili Yang’s Cell Therapy Work to Improve Bone Marrow Transplantation

The findings identify a potential strategy to make bone marrow transplants safer without disrupting their ability to fight cancer.

$500,000 gift from the Charles Huang Foundation will support research focused on infection, immunity, cancer and metabolism

Lili Yang lab licenses cell-therapy tech to start-up, receives CIRM TRAN1 award, and publishes two papers in Science Immunology and Nature Communications.

The Yang lab recently published two papers back-in-back on Science Immunology and Nature Communications.