Martina Roos is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division Hematology/ Oncology, UCLA. She joined the Chute laboratory at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in January 2017. Born in Switzerland, she received her PharmD degree from ETH Zurich. She joined the laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Hall at ETH Zurich for her doctorate studies where she developed a novel high-throughput drug screening assay which identified the first-reported small molecule inhibitor of the oncogenic RNA-binding protein Lin28b. Her enthusiasm for RNA regulation and the importance of stem cells led her pursue postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Kathrin Plath at the Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA. For this, she received a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation and a training award in translational medicine from the Society for Clinical Trials. In the Chute lab, Martina is now combining biochemical, cutting-edge genomic and in vivo modelling approaches to elucidate critical mechanisms driving hematopoietic stem cells with the goal of developing innovative targeted therapies. She is also the project manager of the Chute lab’s translational research projects.