Karina Yazdanbakhsh, Larry Luchsinger to Co-Lead NYBC’s Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute
April 28, 2021
Karina Yazdanbakhsh, PhD, and Larry Luchsinger, PhD, will serve as co-leaders of the New York Blood Center’s Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute (LFKRI), NYBC President Christopher D. Hillyer, MD, announced recently. Hillyer will continue as chief scientific officer.
Yazdanbakhsh will serve as vice president and director of Research Development, LFKRI, where she will be responsible for faculty development and for building research collaborations internally and externally. Most recently, she served as LFKRI’s executive director of Research.
Luchsinger will serve as vice president and director of Research Operations, LFKRI, where he will be responsible for setting LFKRI shared resource policies and promoting technology development strategies to strengthen LFKRI research capabilities. He continues to serve as head of the LFKRI Laboratory of Stem Cell Regenerative Research and director of the NYBC iPSC Program.
Both Yazdanbakhsh (2000) and Luchsinger (2020) are
previous recipients of early-career Scientific Research Grants from AABB’s National Blood Foundation (NBF). In 2015, Yazdanbakhsh was
inducted into the NBF Hall of Fame for her contributions to research and to the Association.