Our Team

Leadership: Steering Committee

Members: UCSF Collaborators

  • Christopher Dvorak, MD

    Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology & Bone Marrow Transplantation; Medical Director, Pediatric Cellular Therapy Laboratory, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

  • Susan Fisher, PhD

    Professor Director, Translational Research in Perinatal Biology and Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute for Regenerative Medicine

  • Stephen Hall, MD

    Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences

  • Thuan Le, DDS, PhD

    Professor, Orofacial Sciences

  • Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH

    Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences

Members: US and International Collaborators

  • Sylvie Babajko, PhD

    Research Director, Senior Investigator at Inserm, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Habilitation for Research Direction at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris

  • Marilia Afonso Rabelo Buzalaf, DDS, PhD

    Professor, Biochemistry and Cariology, University of São Paulo

  • James Chen, DDS, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Predoctoral Program Director, University of the Pacific, San Francisco

  • Sirin Guner, DDS, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Altinbas Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Ali Mentes, DDS, PhD

    Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Kotaro Tanimoto, DDS, PhD

    Professor and Chair, Department of Orthodontics, Hiroshima University Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Japan