PI
Principal Investigator
Cornell University BA
University of Pennsylvania MSTP MD-PhD
University of Michigan Dermatology Residency
University of Pennsylvania Research Fellowship
Board Certified in Dermatology
Dr. Garza practices dermatology at Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center. His clinical interests include general dermatology and wound healing. Click here for Dr. Garza’s clinical page.
LABORATORY STAFF
Senior Research Specialist & Lab Manager
BS, Kookmin University
PhD, Florida State University
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Research Faculty, University of Maryland Baltimore
Senior Research Specialist
Research Technician/Junior Lab Manager
Aiden is from Lufkin, Texas and graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology. He joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant in January 2020, and joined the lab full time after graduating. Outside of work he enjoys golfing, working out, and cooking.
CLINICAL STAFF
Nurse Practitioner
Cutaneous Translational Research Program
Stacey comes to us from Chicago, IL where she graduated from Rush University with her DNP in the specialty of family practice. Stacey works in the Cutaneous Translational Research Program as a clinical provider and tie between Garza Lab and clinical research. Previous to Johns Hopkins, she worked for seven years as a bedside nurse in critical care at Rush University Medical Center. Outside of work you can find her spending quality time with her dog, Roger, cooking, reading and spending time with friends and family.
Clinical Research Coordinator/Lab Assistant
Apurva is originally from Texas, and graduated from Princeton University. In her free time, she enjoys singing and learning new languages.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
BS, Tianjin Medical University (2008-2013)
PhD, Peking Union Medical College(2013-2018) & Johns Hopkins University (2015-2018)
Hobbies include hiking, walking, and yoga.
After getting a PhD in Tokyo, Japan in 2014, Mayumi wandered to New Haven, US, then Marseille, France, and landed in Baltimore in 2019.
She has very stable hands and likes fine works.
All confocal imaging on this website is from Mayumi, our resident imaging expert!
Saifeng Wang, PhD
PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2012
Post-doctoral fellowship, NIH NIAID
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Kaitlin is an MD/PhD student at the Johns Hopkins MSTP who joined the CMM graduate program. She enjoys hiking, playing fetch with her dog Culver (named after the iconic midwestern chain Culver’s), houseplants, hanging out with her husband, and painting.
A BCMB Ph.D. graduate student born in New York City, Charlie ironically loves the outdoors and camping. He studied viruses during undergrad at Virginia Tech and as a specialist at Johns Hopkins, before realizing his love for Regeneration/Computational Biology. In his free time he’s either fixing his house, going on birding trips or playing guitar in a PhD band!
MASTERS STUDENTS
Eddie is a Mexican MD doing his Masters on Biotechnology at JHU. He worked on sexual development disorders before coming to Baltimore to learn about regenerative technologies and stem cells.
He likes listening music and watching song contest shows, as well as hanging out with his friends
Sung was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea until 2016. Then, he went to the University at Buffalo for his undergraduate studies and graduated from there with BS in Biotechnology and minor in Pharmacology & Toxicology.
He likes to eat good foods / watch movies in his free time and occasionally travel if possible. While he also love playing sports like basketball, after injuring his ACL, he had to stop playing. He is open to any sport suggestions that does not involve knees too much!
His interest is in stem cells, and is looking forward to getting involved in research developing novel, regenerative therapies.
LAB ALUMNI
Chenyi completed her masters in biomedical engineering in the Garza lab from 2019-2021. She will be joining a lab at NYU.
Eric completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the Garza lab from 2017 – 2021. He is now a Biologist at the FDA specializing in toxicology.