Faculty at IIT-Kanpur India. Prof. Rao works on gene therapy of inherited disorders and malignancies.

Dr. Gay Crooks is Professor and Rebecca Smith Chair in the Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Crooks serves as Co-Director of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and Director of the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. The research focus of her lab has been informed by her clinical role as a pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant physician at UCLA, and encompasses four related areas of interest: 1. Development of hematopoiesis and other mesoderm derivatives from human pluripotent stem cells (PSC), 2. Manipulation of T cell differentiation from HSC and PSC for cancer immunotherapy, 3. The cellular and molecular characterization of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and early lymphoid development, and 4. Mechanisms of growth and differentiation of the thymic micro-environment during development and after transplantation.