Emily Jean-Young Park

Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)

Email

ejpark@bcm.edu

Positions

Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD): Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

PhD Candidate: 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

Personal Website

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.