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Congrats to Hanna – Our 2025 Terry C. Hillblom Research Scholar!

Congratulations to Hanna, who has been named the 2025 Terry C. Hillblom Research Scholar by the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation! 🎉 This award recognizes her exciting progress on understanding how mechanical cues shape immune aging and her growing contributions to the field of healthy aging research.

Congrats to Anastasia on Her CIRM Clinical Fellowship!

We’re excited to share that Anastasia has been awarded a CIRM Clinical Fellowship to support her research in the Martens Lab. This fellowship, funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, will support her work starting December 2025 as she continues exploring new regenerative…

Congratulations to Dr. Hanna Martens on Her Mallinckrodt Junior Faculty Award!

We’re delighted to share that Dr. Hanna Martens has received a Junior Faculty Grant from the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation. Grateful to the Foundation for their support of innovative early-career research at UCSF.

AFAR Junior Faculty Grant Awarded to Hanna

Congratulations to Hanna!Hanna has been selected as a recipient of the AFAR and Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Junior Faculty Grant, a prestigious award supporting early-career investigators in the biology of aging.

Welcome Neda

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Neda Keyhanvar to the lab! Dr. Keyhanvar brings extensive experience in CRISPR-based gene editing, stem cell biology, and functional genomics. Her postdoctoral research will focus on dissecting molecular mechanisms of tissue aging through genome editing and…

Welcome Anastasia

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Anastasia Zhurikhina to the lab! With a background in applied mathematics, biomedical engineering, and bioinformatics, Dr. Zhurikhina brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to aging research. Her postdoctoral work will focus on unraveling the molecular and…

Hanna Awarded PBBR New Frontiers Research Grant

We’re thrilled to share that our PI, Dr. Hanna Martens, has received a New Frontiers Research Award from the Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR).

Hanna Awarded Start-Up Grant from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation

We are excited to announce that Dr. Hanna Martens, Principal Investigator of our lab, has been awarded a prestigious Start-Up Grant from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation to support her project, "The Regulation of Immunosenescence and its Implications on Healthy Aging."

Welcome Fred!

We are excited to welcome Fred Biancardi to our lab as a Staff Research Associate!