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Dr. Gartner is broadly interested in the principles governing the self-organization of human tissues, with the goal of engineering tissues for regenerative medicine and stabilizing tissues for cancer prevention. Dr. Gartner completed his undergraduate studies in Chemistry at UC Berkeley. He received a PhD in Chemical Biology as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow with David Liu at Harvard University, and completed training as Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow with Carolyn Bertozzi at UC Berkeley. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. His work has been honored with the NIH New Innovator Award and the DOD Era of Hope Scholars award, and he was recently selected among the Popular Science “Brilliant 10."