Cindy Malone

She earned her BS in biology at Illinois State University and her PhD in microbiology and immunology at UCLA. She continued her postdoctoral work at UCLA in molecular genetics. She is currently a distinguished educator and a professor at California State University, Northridge, where she is the director of the CSUN CIRM Bridges to Stem Cell Research and Therapy Training Program and the CSUN CIRM COMPASS Training Program (N-COMPASS), both funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Her research is aimed at training undergraduates and master’s degree candidates to understand how genes are regulated through genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that alter gene expression. She is currently working on the fourth edition of the non-majors text, Biology Now with Physiology, Houtman, Scudellari, Malone, WW Norton publishers. She has been teaching majors and nonmajors biology for over 20 years and has won teaching, mentorship, and curriculum enhancement awards at CSUN.