ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Carolyn Sangokoya, MD, PhD, is an Instructor in the Department of Pathology at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Sangokoya completed her medical and graduate training as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program at Duke University, where she discovered roles for microRNAs in oxidative stress and cellular iron homeostasis in the lab of Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi. At UCSF, she completed her post-graduate training in Anatomic Pathology, Surgical Pathology, and Gastrointestinal/Hepatobiliary Pathology through the Department of Pathology Physician-Scientist Pathway, and postdoctoral studies in stem cell and regenerative biology with Robert Blelloch at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, where she defined an axis of post-transcriptional control, endocytosis, and signal transduction essential for multiple aspects of stem cell biology. Dr. Sangokoya is a recipient of the K08 Career Development Award from the NIH/NICHD to decipher post-transcriptional regulation of cell fate in early mammalian development.
As a physician-scientist and pathologist, Dr. Sangokoya’s clinical interests are primarily in liver pathology and advancing diagnostics for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). As a stem cell biologist, her basic science research interests are in dissecting the molecular networks that fine-tune the wiring and re-wiring of cell fates in stem-cell based models.