Dr Marie Csete

Biography

Marie Csete received her undergraduate music degree from Princeton University, followed by an MD from Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons. She is board certified in anesthesiology with subspecialty certification in critical care. Her academic career focused on optimising the perioperative management of liver transplant patients, and she led the liver transplant anesthesiology services at UCSF, UCLA, Michigan and Emory where she was co-director of the MD/PhD program and founding director of the Emory/GaTech human embryonic stem cell core facility. Mid-career Dr. Csete received a PhD in developmental biology from Caltech. Her PhD work focused on the role of oxygen in stem cell fate, which led to later work in stem cell aging. Dr. Csete was the first CSO of CIRM, the California state stem cell agency where she supervised development of its core programs. Currently President & Chief Scientist of the non-profit Huntington Medical Research Institutes, her lab studies iPS models of neurodegeneration. At HMRI she is leading a new scientific strategic plan focused on multidisciplinary approaches to common diseases with core emphasis on inflammation and metabolism, and development of new imaging approaches to quantify these processes

Research Interest

stem cell