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The Almada Lab welcomes its first master’s student to the lab. Welcome Gabriel Elizalde, MS!

Gabriel is a recent graduate of the SCRM master’s program (class of ’21) at USC. Gabriel received his bachelor’s in Biochemistry from Vassar College in 2016. Gabriel will be studying the early post-translational mechanisms controlling adult muscle stem cell activation in mice and humans. Gabriel is a native of Los Angeles….Continue Reading The Almada Lab welcomes its first master’s student to the lab. Welcome Gabriel Elizalde, MS!

Albert Almada puts muscle into stem cell research

USC Stem Cell scientist Albert Almada once had ambitions of becoming a catcher in a professional baseball league—until he was sidelined by a rotator cuff injury in his shoulder. “Life painfully closes one door and then cracks open another, and then over time, you start to realize that that is how things should have happened…Continue Reading Albert Almada puts muscle into stem cell research