Saul Villeda, University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Saul Villeda earned his PhD. Degree in Neuroscience from Stanford University. He initially trained as a developmental biologist during his time at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the lab of Dr. Patricia Phelps. At Stanford he first trained as a neural stem cell biologist with Dr. Anne Brunet, and went on to complete his doctoral work under the training of Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray. During his time in the lab of Dr. Wyss-Coray he investigated how systemic changes in aging blood contribute to age-related impairments in neural stem cell function and cognitive prcesses. Dr. Villeda joined the UCSF community in 2012 as a UCSF Faculty Fellow in the Department of Anatomy and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research.