Ken Yamauchi, PhD

As the microscopy core director at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, Ken Yamauchi, Ph.D., serves as a reliable resource for the core’s users. He identifies the most prominent needs of the core to make improvements that advance scientific research at the center.

Yamauchi, who earned his doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Southern California, loves to see the way small things can form part of a larger system. This has been a pattern in his life ever since a simple eighth-grade experiment sparked his interest in microscopy and biology. Here, he talks about his vision for the microscopy core, the crucial ways core resources advance science and his hobbies outside of the lab.