Sarah Saietz
Phd Student
E-mail: sarah.saietz@ki.se
Visiting address: Hälsovägen, Enheten för obstetrik och gynekologi C1:77, 14181 Stockholm
Postal address: H9 Klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik, H9 CLT Obstetrik o gynekologi Lanner, 141 52 Huddinge
About me
PhD candidate in hESC-based treatment for retinal dystrophies in Assistant Professor Fredrik Lanner's Stem Cell Lab.
Nordic Early-Stage Professional Abstract Award, 500 USD. Awarded at the ISCT Europe 2024 Regional Meeting, Sep. 2024.
Karin Sandqvists stiftelse, 20.000 SEK. Travel grant to attend the European Summer School on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (SCSS2023) in Spetses, Greece, Sep. 2023.
KI travel support, KI Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, 15.000 SEK. Travel grant to attend the course ‘Bioinformatics Analysis and Visualisation of Medical Genomics Data’ at the University of Tokyo, Mar. 2023.
Karin Sandqvists stiftelse, 5.000 SEK. Travel grant to attend the 23rd EVER Congress in Valencia, Spain, Oct. 2022.
Teaching
- Nov. 2023 – Jan. 2024: Supervisor of Eda Erbil, MSc student, Karolinska Institutet, 10-week intern
"Long-term maturation of hESC-derived photoreceptor progenitors to guide rod/cone lineage distribution"
Jan. 2023 – Jul. 2023: Co-supervisor of Willemijn Bout, MSc student, Utrecht University, 30-week intern
"Optimising directed differentiation of retinal pigment epithelial cells and photoreceptor progenitors from hPSCs"
Jun. 2023 – Jul. 2023: Research mentor, Aleksander Purik, high-school student, Rays (Research Academy for Young Scientists) – for Excellence 2023
"Validating candidate cell surface markers for the purification of hESC-derived photoreceptor progenitors"
Articles
- Article: CYTOTHERAPY. 2024;26(4):340-350
All other publications
- Conference publication: CYTOTHERAPY. 2023;25(6):S170