{"id":3044,"date":"2020-01-22T03:41:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T11:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/ebony-flowers-named-choi-family-postdoctoral-fellow-at-usc-stem-cell\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T16:29:49","slug":"ebony-flowers-named-choi-family-postdoctoral-fellow-at-usc-stem-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/ebony-flowers-named-choi-family-postdoctoral-fellow-at-usc-stem-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebony Flowers named Choi Family Postdoctoral Fellow at USC Stem Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Ebony Flowers named Choi Family Postdoctoral Fellow at USC Stem Cell<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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For Ebony Flowers, a postdoctoral fellow in the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Min Yu, doing science is ultimately about helping patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe fact that Min Yu\u2019s Lab is looking at actual human samples from breast cancer patients, and I\u2019m looking to see how this process of metastasis occurs in humans is appealing. You can actually see that this could potentially lead to therapeutics,\u201d said Flowers, who has been awarded the Choi Family Postdoctoral Fellowship, which provides support to recruit exceptional postdoctoral fellows to USC Stem Cell laboratories.<\/p>\n

As the daughter of an electronic engineer and a computer science teacher, Flowers always possessed an inquisitive mind and a natural curiosity about how things work.<\/p>\n

She grew up in the South Bay, near Los Angeles, and pursued her bachelor\u2019s degree in biology at California State University, Long Beach. Her original intention was to become a reconstructive surgeon, treating patients with major injuries and birth defects such as cleft palate. But after hearing Nobel Laureate Mario Capecchi give a special lecture on gene editing, she became intrigued by medical research. She joined a lab that studied the development of fruit fly larvae, and decided to pursue a biotechnology certificate with a concentration on stem cell research.<\/p>\n