The Team
Our team is made up of passionate scientists with diverse backgrounds and expertise, from cell biology to bioengineering. We believe that collaboration and teamwork is essential to making breakthroughs in stem cell research, and we work closely together to support each other's projects and share our knowledge and ideas.
Thank you for visiting our team page, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or are interested in learning more about our work.
Center Director
Kitai Kim, Ph.D.
Kitai Kim is the Director of the Human Stem Cell and Genome Engineering Center at UCLA. He earned his PhD in Virology/Oncology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed postdoctoral training in the Hematology/Oncology Department at Boston Children’s Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He previously served as a faculty member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), affiliated with Weill Medical College of Cornell University, before relocating his lab to UCLA in 2021.
His research focuses on advancing cellular therapies, automating stem cell technologies, and developing high-throughput gene editing platforms.
