Michael Zaiken

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Credentials

PhD

Bio

Dr. Michael Zaiken is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy. Dr. Zaiken completed his graduate training at the University of Minnesota in the Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, and Genetics program under the advisement of Dr. Bruce R. Blazar in 2020. He continued on in the laboratory of Dr. Blazar for post-doctoral training focusing on bioinformatics and joined the Department of Pediatrics as faculty in 2023.

Research Summary

Dr. Zaiken’s current research is focused on the application of novel bioinformatic analyses to the treatment of graft vs host disease (GVHD). This primarily focuses on the development of analytics pipelines for deciphering complex ‘omics’ datasets, with an emphasis on single-cell RNA sequencing and spatialomics data. Dr. Zaiken’s long term goal is to use these novel tools to improve understanding of transcriptional regulatory control of immune-malignancies including GVHD, as well as leveraging bioinformatics tools to improve the development of advanced cellular therapies.