Catriona Jamieson

Catriona Jamieson is a prominent stem cell researcher and the director of the Sanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology at the University of California, San Diego. She has made significant contributions to the understanding of stem cell biology and its implications for regenerative medicine and cancer. Recently, she was in the news for leading a study that found that space travel accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, highlighting the effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation on cellular aging.