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Irina Conboy

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Professor, Bioengineering

B108B Stanley Hall
Mailcode 1762
510-666-2792
iconboy@berkeley.edu

For more information, see: https://conboylab.berkeley.edu/

Research Interests

Our work has been focused on establishing new paradigms in multi-tissue stem cell aging, rejuvenation and regulation by conserved morphogenic signaling pathways. One of our goals is to define pharmacology for enhancing maintenance and repair of adult tissues in vivo. The spearheaded by us heterochronic parabiosis and blood apheresis studies have established that the process of aging is reversible through modulation of circulatory milieu. Our synthetic biology method of choice focuses on bio-orthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT) and subsequent identification of age-imposed and disease-causal changes in mammalian proteomes in vivo. Our drug delivery reg medicine projects focus on CRISPR/Cas9 based therapeutics for more effective and safer gene editing.

Education

  • 1998 Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Immunology. Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences

Major Awards

  • Packer endowment award for Aging research
  • Raymond and Beverly Sackler TAU Award
  • Calico Award
  • QB3 Bridging the Gap Award
  • 2010    W.M. Keck Foundation Award
  • 2008    Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging
  • 2008    CIRM New Faculty Award
  • 2006-2007 Award from Stem cell research foundation
  • 2005-2009 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging
  • 2000- 2003 National Research Service Award from NIA
  • 1999-2000 Dean’s Fellowship Award
  • 1998-1999 NIH Research grant in Molecular and Cellular Immunobiology
  • 1993-1995 NIH Research grant in Developmental Medicine

Professional Experience

  • 2006-present Reviewer for CIRM Training Grant Program at UC Berkeley
  • 2006-2007 Faculty Mentor of CIRM training grant T1-00007
  • 2005-Present Faculty Mentor for UC Berkeley Chapter of Student Society for Stem Cell Research
  • 2004-present Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and QB3 Investigator, UC Berkeley
  • 1999-2004 Postdoc and Instructor, Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine

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