Primary Job Title Director, Stem Cell Biology, Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics Primary Organization Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Location San Diego, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
Website www.sbpdiscovery.org/team/anne-bang-phd LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Dr. Anne Bang is an experienced cell biologist and stem cell expert who leads efforts at the Prebys Center to develop patient cell specific and human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-based disease models for drug screening and target identification. Her research program is primarily focused on neurological and neuromuscular disease, with the
aim of designing human cell based models and assays that reflect higher order cellular functions and recapitulate disease phenotypes, yet have the throughput and reproducibility required for drug discovery. Towards this goal her group has worked to develop a suite of foundational high throughput assays to monitor neuronal morphology, mitochondrial function, and electrophysiology, using high content screening, and multi-electrode array formats. They have conducted high-throughput drug screens on muscular dystrophy patient cells, hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes, and hiPSC-derived neurons, including from Alzheimer’s patient specific hiPSC. Anne is a principal investigator for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Cooperative Reprogrammed Cell Research Groups consortium “iPSC-based platform development for major psychiatric disorder modeling and discovery", and also receives research support from rare disease foundations and pharma sponsored collaborations.
