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Gay Crooks

Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UCLA.

Gay M. Crooks is the Rebecca Smith Professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. She is Co-director of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and Director of the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA.

Dr Crooks graduated from medical school at the University of Western Australia and completed her FRACP (pediatrics) at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children prior to her fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). In 1993, she joined the faculty of the University of Southern California and established her laboratory and clinical programs in the Division of Research Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at CHLA.

Visit website: https://www.crooks-lab.com/about-the-pi

See also: Academia University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Public land-grant research university

Details last updated 05-Jan-2020

Gay Crooks News

Mini-thymus used to produce and train T cells

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 21-Jan-2019

Able to regenerate ageing immune system, and reduce cost of immunotherapy

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Artificial Thymus to Create Cancer-Fighting Cells

UCLA - 10-Apr-2017

T-cells mature within this gland. People with some types of cancer are not getting the biologica...

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