Episode 145: Prof Elena Ezhkova- “The more you try understand science the more interesting it gets”

StemCells@Lunch Digested

In today’s episode, Prof Elena Ezhkova, a group leader at Icahn School of Medicine, is interviewed by PhD student Vassia Salameti. Elena talks about the potential of stem cells in therapy and how her interest developed towards understanding the role of epigenetic regulators in stem cell reprogramming. She shares about how companies are getting interested in small molecular drugs that target epigenetic regulators which could be used as personalized therapy. Elena also emphasizes the importance of clinical collaboration and highlights how important it is to get the inputs from clinicians at the beginning of project to get better understanding of the disease. Lastly, she shares her advice for PhDs to find the research direction of interest and not be afraid things will work out!!! To find out more about Elena's research, check out the following link: https://www.ezhkova-lab.com/