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Lien Laboratory

Meet Our Team

Principal Investigator
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Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD

Investigator, Regenerative Medicine
Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Current Lab Members
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Subir Kapuria, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
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Stanislao Travisano, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
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Xidi Feng, MS

PhD Student
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Yuhan Sun, MS

PhD Student
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Siqi Tao, MS

PhD Student
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Krysta Siu

Master's Student
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Hiral Oza

Master's Student
Former Lab Members
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Michael Harrison, PhD

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine

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Adrienne Maxwell, PhD

Current Position: ThermoFisher

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Laurent Gamba, PhD

Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Montpellier

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Ali Darehzereshki, MD

Current Position: Cardiothoracic Surgery fellow, UCLA

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Hyuna Lee, PhD

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biola University

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Nicole Rubin, PhD

Current Position: Global Support Scientist, Miltenyi Biotech

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Katie Wiens, PhD

Current position: Association Professor, Bay Path University

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