Director
UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center
Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center. In this role, he promotes a culture of scientific excellence, academic integrity and interdisciplinary collaboration. He also builds partnerships with the larger scientific community — including other institutions and private companies — to address the most urgent challenges in regenerative medicine with the shared goal of improving human health.
Rando studies the basic mechanisms of stem cell biology and the biology of aging. He seeks to understand how environmental influences affect the aging of stem cells and how alterations of those environmental factors can delay or reverse age-related changes.