Email

ejpark@bcm.edu

Positions

Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

GS3

Development, Disease Models & Therapeutics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Mentor - Bruno Di Stefano, PhD

Education

BA from Wellesley College

05/2017 - Wellesley, Massachusetts United States

Neuroscience

Professional Statement

Emily Park is a student in Baylor College of Medicine's Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP, MD/PhD). She is currently a PhD candidate in the Development, Disease Models and Therapeutics Program. Her main interests are in cellular potency, stem cells, regeneration, and differentiation - particularly, she is interested in how these processes can be leveraged to create new therapeutic tools that can target everything from neurodegenerative disorders to cancer to wound-healing.

Emily also serves in the MSTP Student Operating Committee and currently co-chairs the Committee for Events and Recruitment.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Markus Riessland, Benjamin Kolisnyk, Tae Wan Kim, Jia Cheng, Jason Ni, Jordan A Pearson, Emily J Park, Kevin Dam, Devrim Acehan, Lavoisier S Ramos-Espiritu, Wei Wang, Jack Zhang, Jae-Won Shim, Gabriele Ciceri, Lars Brichta, Lorenz Studer, Paul Greengard "Loss of SATB1 Induces p21-Dependent Cellular Senescence in Post-mitotic Dopaminergic Neurons." Cell Stem Cell.. 2019 Oct 3;25(4):P514-530.E8. Pubmed PMID: 31543366
• Emily J Park and Sara M Wasserman "Diversity of visuomotor reflexes in two Drosophila species." Curr Biol.. 2018 Aug 20;28(16):R865-866. Pubmed PMID: 30130502
• Emily J Park, Srikanth Kodali, Bruno Di Stefano "Chemical reprogramming takes the fast lane." Cell Stem Cell. 2023 Apr 6;30(4):P335-337. Pubmed PMID: 37028396