Mehrnoosh Saghizadeh Ghiam is Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center since January 2017 and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine since 2020. She received her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from UCLA. She has has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on several NIH R01 grants. The main focus of her research is to identify specific molecular corneal defects related to microRNA and associated with corneal pathological conditions such as diabetes. In addition, she seeks to understand the intercellular communications of limbal epithelial and stromal stem cells by extracellular vesicles in normal and diabetic cornea, and how this influences wound healing through regulatory microRNAs. Beside her research, she has been an active member of different scientific organizations such as Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Cornea, Biology & Pathobiology of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC), and International Society for Eye Research (ISER), national and international Scientific Review Committees, Editorial Board member and reviewer for many journals, and an ad-hoc member of several NIH-NEI Study Sections.