Laboratory Personnel 
Principal Investigator                                          

Matt Springer
Associate Professor of Medicine
(415) 502-8404
matt.springer @ ucsf.edu

CV

Rich Sievers
Research Specialist
(415) 476-2600
sievers @ medicine.ucsf.edu

Cell and gene therapies for cardiac disease, ultrasound-guided intramyocardial injection, studies of vascular reactivity

Xiaoyin Wang
Associate Research Specialist
(415) 502-7184
xwang @ medicine.ucsf.edu

Therapeutic cell implantation as treatment for myocardial infarction, mechanisms of endothelial impairment by secondhand smoke

Songtao An
Postdoctoral Fellow
(415) 502-7184
songtao.an @ ucsf.edu

Effects of age on autologous bone marrow cell therapy for myocardial infarction

Dmitry Kostyushev
Visiting graduate student
First Moscow State Medical University, Russia
(415) 502-7184
dkostushev @ gmail.com

Cell therapy for cardiovascular disease

Olivia Danforth
Staff Research Associate
(415) 502-7184
olivia.danforth @ ucsf.edu

Circulating angiogenic cell function, angiogenesis, research support

Emmy Luu
Research Intern
San Francisco State University
eluu @ mail.sfsu.edu

Ronak Derakhshandeh
Research Intern
Cal State LA alum
ronak540 @ yahoo.com

Kirstin Aschbacher
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Dept
kirstin.aschbacher @ ucsf.edu

Influence of psychosocial stress on circulating angiogenic cell function

The Springer Lab is
open to BMS and DSCB
graduate students