Leadership and Staff at UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center CIRM Alpha Clinic

Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD
Genomics Manager
Deputy Director, Sanford Stem Cell Fitness and Space Medicine Center
Associate Professor, Cellular Molecular Medicine
l2alexandrov@ucsd.edu

Kathleen Fisch, PhD
Trial Expert, Data Science - Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, and Translational Genomics
Assistant Professor, OBGYN & Reproductive Sciences
kfisch@ucsd.edu

Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Trial Expert, Cardiology
Division Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine
emahmud@ucsd.edu

Karen Christman, PhD

Trial Expert, Cardiology
Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
Pierre Galletti Endowed Chair for Bioengineering Innovation
Associate Dean for Faculty, Jacobs School of Engineering

Co-Director, Sanford Advanced Therapy Center
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, UC San Diego

kchristm@ucsd.edu

Anthony DeMaria, MD, MAAC
Trial Expert, Cardiology
Professor, School of Medicine
ademaria@ucsd.edu

Tatiana Kisseleva, MD, PhD
Trial Expert, Metabolic
Professor, Surgery
Director, Sanford Stem Cell Fitness and Space Medicine Center
tkisseleva@ucsd.edu

Loomba Rohit, MD, MHSc
Trial Expert, Metabolic
Professor, Medicine
roloomba@ucsd.edu

Stephanie Cherqui, PhD
Trial Expert, Metabolic
Professor, Pediatrics
scherqui@ucsd.edu

Leslie Crews, PhD
Trial Expert, Myeloma
Assistant Professor, Medicine
lcrews@ucsd.edu

Rebecca Shatsky, MD
Trial Expert, Breast Cancer
Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine
rshatsky@ucsd.edu

Gregory Botta, MD, PhD
Trial Expert, Gastrointestinal Cancers
Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine
gbotta@ucsd.edu

Rana McKay, MD
Trial Expert, Urogenital Cancers
HS Clinical Professor, Medicine
rmckay@ucsd.edu

Joseph Ciacci, MD
Trial Expert, Neurological Disease
Professor of Clinical, Neurological Surgery
jciacci@ucsd.edu

Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD

Trial Expert, Neurological Disease
Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences
Director, UC San Diego Translational Neuroscience Institute

mtuszynski@ucsd.edu

Martin Marsala, MD
Trial Expert, Neurological Disease
Professor, Anesthesiology
Director, Sanford Surgical Training Center
mmarsala@ucsd.edu

Joel Castellanos, MD
Trial Expert, Neurological Disease, Physical Medicine & Rehab Specialist
Associate Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology
jcastellanos@ucsd.edu

Dan Kaufman, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Director, Advanced Cell Therapy Lab, UC San Diego
Co-Director, Sanford Advanced Therapy Center
​858-822-1777
dskaufman@ucsd.edu

Eric Ahrens, PhD

Trial Expert, Imaging
Professor, Radiology
eahrens@ucsd.edu

Jennifer Graves, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical, Neurosciences
jgraves@ucsd.edu

Jack Bui, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology
jbui@ucsd.edu