Enoch Tsui

Class of 2019

Education: Blended BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering at Cal Poly

 

Biography

Enoch is interested in stem cell research and the regenerative medicine field because of the incredible potential that they hold for treating patients in a way that current therapies cannot do. He is particularly interested in the use of disease models to better understand how to treat neurodegenerative disorders. Following completion of the program, he hopes to enjoy a research position studying neurodegenerative disorders, but is open to eventually going back to school to pursue a PhD or MD.

Enoch is completing his internship at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in the lab of Rusty Gage. He is investigating direct conversion strategies to model age-associated diseases in neurons and glial cells. Unlike induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) based disease modeling approaches, direct conversion circumvents the developmental reset that iPSC reprogramming incurs and maintains age-associated features. The direct conversion approach is particularly useful in studying aging and aged-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.