Prior Academic Affiliations: University of California – San Diego (Sept. 2012 – June 2016)
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Teresa Ku
Thesis Title: Differentiation and Enrichment of Adult Human Pancreatic Colony-Forming Cells for a Cellular Therapy for Type I Diabetes
Fellowships, honors, awards etc: H.N. & Frances Berger Foundation Fellow (2017-2018); Cum Laude Honors (2016)
Publications:
Hidaka M, Okabe E, Hatakeyama K, Zook H, Uchida C, Uchida T. (2018) Fluorescent resonance energy transfer -based biosensor for detecting conformational changes of Pin1. Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 505: 399-404
Valentina V, Thorton ME, Zook HN, Crook CJ, Grubbs BH, Orlando G, De Filippo R, Ku HT, Perin L. (2019) SOX9+/PTF1A+ cells define the tip progenitors of the human fetal pancreas of the second trimester. Stem Cells Translational Medicine. Accepted.