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Sanjay Kumar

 

Sanjay Kumar, M.D., Ph.D., is Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UC Berkeley (QB3-Berkeley).  His primary appointment is in the Department of Bioengineering (which he chaired from 2019-22), with joint appointments in the UC Berkeley Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  Dr. Kumar earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1996) and his M.D. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University (2003).  He then completed postdoctoral training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.   Dr. Kumar has co-authored >100 peer-reviewed publications and mentored >30 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.  He and his group have been recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, The Beckman Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Stem Cells Young Investigator Award. Dr. Kumar is an elected fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and BMES, and he is a member of the BMES Board of Directors.

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Congratulations Erin!

The Kumar Lab is proud to announce the graduation of Dr. Erin Akins! Erin will be working as an Expert in Residence at the Berkeley Life Sciences … [Read More...] about Congratulations Erin!

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We have a new publication in PNAS: R.G. Sampayo, M. Sakamoto, M. Wang, S. Kumar,* and D.V. Schaffer* (2023).  Mechanosensitive Stem Cell Fate Choice … [Read More...] about We have a new publication in PNAS!

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