Dr. Sai Ma

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Dr. Sai Ma is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received his postdoctoral training from Aviv Regev and Jason Buenrostro at Broad Institute and Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB). He is primarily interested in developing single cell multi-omic technologies to understand gene regulation in development and diseases. He enjoys swimming, badminton, movies, and landscape photography. Architecture is his new favorite.

Professional experience:

– 2017-2022, Postdoctoral Associate, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
– 2017-2022, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biology, MIT
– 2018-2022, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
– 2022-Present, Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
– 2022-Present, Assistant Professor, Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
– 2022-Present, Member, Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center (SBDRC)
– 2022-Present, Affiliate Member, New York Genome Center (NYGC)
– 2023-Present, Member, Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IRM)
– 2023-Present, Member, Black Family Stem Cell Institute (BFSCI)
– 2023-Present, Member, Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) 

Education:

– 2007-2011, B.S., Chemistry, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University
– 2011-2017, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech & Wake Forest University