Our Mission: The mission of RESTORE is to accelerate regenerative medicine by broadening access to stem cell-based models, advancing standards and reproducibility, increasing educational opportunities, and providing sustainable high-end instrumentation to a wide range of investigators.
RESTORE is a UC Merced Shared Research Laboratory (SRL) funded by a grant to Program Director Dr. Kara McCloskey from CIRM in 2024. The facility will be fully grant funded through 2027 with tapering support through 2029.
Lab Manager:
Marisa Bickel, PhD
Project Scientist:
Jose Zamora Alvarado, PhD
Program Director:
Kara McCloskey, PhD
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
Co-Principal investigators:
Changqing Li, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
Jennifer O. Manilay, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
School of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
David M. Gravano, PhD
Technical Director
Office of Research and Economic Development
University of California, Merced
