Evan Y. Snyder M.D., Ph.D.

Evan Snyder earned his M.D. and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He completed residencies in pediatrics and neurology at Children's Hospital-Boston and postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. In 1992, Dr. Snyder was appointed an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School and was promoted to assistant professor in 1996. In 2001, Dr. Snyder was recruited to The Burnham Institute as professor and director of the Stem Cells and Regeneration program.

Andrew Crain, B.S., B.S., M.S.

Andrew is a graduate student in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate program at the UCSD School of Medicine and joined the lab in 2005. He received Bachelor of Science degrees in Cellular/Molecular biology and Exercise Physiology and a Master of Science degree in Exercise Physiology. Andrew is investigating neuronal survival pathways in spinal motor neurons.

Nejmi Dilmac, Ph.D.

Nejmi received his Ph.D. from Purdue School of Pharmacology where he investigated drug modulation of calcium channels. He is currently interested in calcium signaling and the role of calcium channels in human embryonic stem cells.

Rahul Jandial, M.D.

Rahul is interested in the investigation of stem and neurodevelopmental biology with a focus on bringing discoveries from the laboratory to patients in the hospital. Specifically, his work is on cancer stem cells, cellular origin of brain tumors, spinal cord regeneration, and neurotransplantation. With his experience and training in the Snyder laboratory, he is working on building a bridge between the clinical/surgical and scientific realms here in the San Diego area.

Jean-pyo Lee, Ph.D.

Jean-Pyo received her doctoral training in neuroscience at the University of Chicago and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. She is a Staff Scientist at BIMR and an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at UCSD. In her current work, she investigates the mechanisms of neuronal degeneration and regeneration in the central nervous system.  

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Jang-Won Lee, Ph.D.

Jang-Won Lee earned his Ph.D. in Reproductive Biotechnology from the University of Connecticut in 2003. He completed postdoctoral training in Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Lab at Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School,  Boston, MA as well as Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston Salem, NC. He is a Research Assistant Professor at BIMR, interested in investigating the mechanisms of reprogramming somatic cells with or without egg cells and environmental cues in order to study etiology of neuronal diseases and apply for cell therapy.

Tsaiwei Olee, Ph.D.

Tsaiwei is a Staff Scientist from Scripps Clinic, Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research. She joined Snyder lab in 2006 to work on stem cells and cartilage repair. She got her BS and MS from National Taiwan Univ, Ph.D. from Medical University of South Carolina, and post-doctoral training in Scripps Research and UCSD. 

Ilyas Singec, M.D.

Ilyas joined the Synder Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2005. He is using human embryonic stem cells as a model system to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms of controlled neural induction, specification, and neuronal differentiation. The major goal of his studies is the generation of specific neuronal and glial cells for brain repair.

Dustin Wakeman, B.S.

The focus of Dustin's research lies in the development of new therapeutics for treatment of advanced idiopathic PD. Human neural stem cell (hNSC) transplants provide a new avenue for regeneration and restoration of damaged tissue, especially in neurological disorders.  As part of an ongoing multi-center collaboration, he is developing novel hNSC based therapies in the most clinically relevant model for idiopathic PD, exploring the interactions between stem cells and the dysregulated cytoarchitecture and microenvironment of the non-human primate MPTP-lesioned nigral-striatal pathway. contact Dustin

Lab Alumni

Jamie Imitola M.D. 

Instructor in Neurology- Harvard Medical School

Bela Kosaras M.D.  

BIDMC

Mahesh Lachyanker Ph.D.

Research Fellow in Neurology-BIDMC

Magda Petryniak M.D.

Saigal Rajiv

M.I.T.

Renna Onario

Souayah Nizar M.D.

MGH Neurology

Ted Yang Teng M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Surgery- Children's Hospital Boston

Jikita Ourednik

Assistant Professor I.S.U.

Vaclav Ouredniak Ph.D.

Assistant Professor I.S.U.

Stephan Yip M.D., Ph.D.

Neurosurgery Dept. Vancouver

Jianxue Lee

Michael Marconi

Richard Sidman M.D.