Leadership

Associate Director, Alpha Clinic

CHLA Site PI

Associate Director of Strategy and Operations

Team Members

USC Clinical Trials

Thomas Buchanan, MD, Director

Brenda Zaragoza, Clinical Research Care Coordinator

Allison Zumberge Orechwa, PhD, MBA, Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation, SC CTSI

 

CHLA Clinical Trials

Alan Wayne, MD, Co-director

Cathy Salata, CRN, CCRP, Clinical Research Care Coordinator

Eliana Romero, Biospecimen Coordinator

Community Engagement/DEI

Nicole Wolfe, PhD, Co-Director Community Engagement

Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, Co-Director, Community Engagement

Michele Kipke, PhD, SC CSTI Co-Director/CE Director

 

Education

Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, MD, PhD, MSPH, Executive Director, Joint USC/CHLA Cell Therapy Program

Eunjoo Pacifici, PharmD, PhD, Chair & Associate Professor of the Department of Regulatory and Quality Sciences

Manufacturing

Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, MD, PhD, MSPH, Executive Director, Joint USC/CHLA Cell Therapy Program

Pipeline Development

Juliane Glaeser, PhD, Director, Translational and Collaborative Research Programs, USC Stem Cell

Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, MD, PhD, MSPH, Executive Director, Joint USC/CHLA Cell Therapy Program

 

Regulatory/IND Support

Benson Kuo, PhD, Associate Director of the D.K. Kim International Center for Regulatory Science Consulting Center, Department of Regulatory and Quality Sciences

Karen Manrique, MS, Project Administrator, Regulatory Knowledge Support, SC CTSI

Novel Therapeutic Expertise

Yang Chai, D.D.S., PhD, Director of the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology

Denis Evseenko, MD,PhD, Director of Skeletal Regeneration Program

Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD, Director of USC Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics

Alan Wayne, MD, Pediatrician-in-Chief and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs

Sun Young Lee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Physiology & Neuroscience

Bridget Samuels, PhD, Project Director at Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC

Vyvy Nguyen, MPH, Cranial and Dental Diseases Project Administrator