Heather Christofk, Ph.D. – VAI Seminar Series

Metabolic Transitions in Cancer and Development

Speaker Information

Heather Christofk, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Basic and Translational Research
Professor of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine
Co-Director of the UCLA Metabolomics Center
UCLA

Abstract/Bio: Dr. Heather Christofk is Associate Director of Basic and Translational Research at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a Professor of Biological Chemistry at theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Co-Director of the UCLA Metabolomics Center. Dr. Christofk earned a B.S. at UCLA and a Ph.D. at Harvard. Her research focuses on the role of metabolism in cancer, development, and tissue stem cells, with the goal of using this knowledge to develop novel treatment strategies. She is a Searle Scholar and recipient of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award. Along with Drs. Bill Lowry and Mike Jung at UCLA, Dr. Christofk co-founded Pelage Pharmaceuticals, a company developing new treatments for hair loss that stimulate hair follicle stem cell activation by changing their metabolism.

Host: Rusty Jones, Ph.D. – Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programing

If you’d like to learn more about Dr. Christofk please visit: https://www.uclahealth.org/cancer/about-us/meet-our-leadership/heather-christofk