CIR Seminar: Professor Saghi Ghaffari

"Lysosomes in Reversing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging"

Professor Saghi Ghaffari, Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

GHAFFARI LAB

Host: Professor Chris Lucas

** please remember attendance at these seminars is compulsory for all students registered in the CIR as part of your continued development and educational training**

Bio:

Saghi Ghaffari MD-PhD is a Professor in Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and a member of Black Family Stem Cell Institute and Tisch Cancer Institute. Dr. Ghaffari is a stem cell biologist with expertise in blood and blood disorders. She was trained in medicine and obtained her medical degree (Doctorat D'Etat) in Paris, France, before completing her PhD in Vancouver, Canada. She was a clinical scientist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, MA, after which she joined the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

CIR student meet the speaker session following the seminar at 1pm. If you would like to attend the student session, lunch provided, please contact Verity Cowell  V.E.Cowell@sms.ed.ac.uk   advising if you have any food allergies/dietary requirements.