Awards and Honors

• Alfred E Mann Family Foundation Research Award, UCLA, 2022.
• Life Sciences Faculty Research Excellence Award UCLA, UCLA, 2016.
• George and Nouhad Ayoub Centennial Chair for Life Science Innovation, UCLA, 2020-Pres.
• Ablon Faculty Award, UCLA, 2018-2021.
• Rose Hills Foundation Scholar, UCLA, 2015.

Publications

1. Hicks MR, Saleh KK, Clock B, Gibbs DE, Yang M, Younesi S, Gane L, Gutierrez-Garcia V, Xi H, Pyle AD. Publisher Correction: Regenerating human skeletal muscle forms an emerging niche in vivo to support PAX7 cells.. Nature cell biology, 2024.
2. Romero MA, Pyle AD. 'Enhancing' skeletal muscle and stem cells in three-dimensions: genome regulation of skeletal muscle in development and disease.. Current opinion in genetics & development, 2023.
3. Hicks MR, Saleh KK, Clock B, Gibbs DE, Yang M, Younesi S, Gane L, Gutierrez-Garcia V, Xi H, Pyle AD. Regenerating human skeletal muscle forms an emerging niche in vivo to support PAX7 cells.. Nature cell biology, 2023.
4. Hicks MR, Liu X, Young CS, Saleh K, Ji Y, Jiang J, Emami MR, Mokhonova E, Spencer MJ, Meng H, Pyle AD. Nanoparticles systemically biodistribute to regenerating skeletal muscle in DMD.. Journal of nanobiotechnology, 2023.
5. Jaime OG, Arias J, Pavani S, Pyle AD, Hicks MR. SIX1+PAX3+ identify a progenitor for myogenic lineage commitment from hPSCs.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2023.
6. Emami MR, Espinoza A, Young CS, Ma F, Farahat PK, Felgner PL, Chamberlain JS, Xu X, Pyle AD, Pellegrini M, Villalta SA, Spencer MJ. Innate and adaptive AAV-mediated immune responses in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.. Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2023.
7. Gibbs DE, Pyle AD. Muscle fusogens go viral for gene delivery to skeletal muscle.. Cell, 2023.
8. Saleh KK, Switzler C, Hicks MR, Gane L, Gibbs DE, Pyle AD. Duchenne muscular dystrophy disease severity impacts skeletal muscle progenitor cells systemic delivery.. Frontiers in physiology, 2023.
9. Stearns-Reider KM, Hicks MR, Hammond KG, Reynolds JC, Maity A, Kurmangaliyev YZ, Chin J, Stieg AZ, Geisse NA, Hohlbauch S, Kaemmer S, Schmitt LR, Pham TT, Yamauchi K, Novitch BG, Wollman R, Hansen KC, Pyle AD, Crosbie RH. Myoscaffolds reveal laminin scarring is detrimental for stem cell function while sarcospan induces compensatory fibrosis.. NPJ Regenerative medicine, 2023.
10. Saleh KK, Xi H, Switzler C, Skuratovsky E, Romero MA, Chien P, Gibbs D, Gane L, Hicks MR, Spencer MJ, Pyle AD. Single cell sequencing maps skeletal muscle cellular diversity as disease severity increases in dystrophic mouse models.. iScience, 2022.
11. Wei Y, Qin Q, Yan C, Hayes MN, Garcia SP, Xi H, Do D, Jin AH, Eng TC, McCarthy KM, Adhikari A, Onozato ML, Spentzos D, Neilsen GP, Iafrate AJ, Wexler LH, Pyle AD, Suvà ML, Dela Cruz F, Pinello L, Langenau DM. Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma.. Nature cancer, 2022.
12. Hicks MR, Pyle AD. The emergence of the stem cell niche.. Trends in cell biology, 2022.
13. Chien P, Xi H, Pyle AD. Recapitulating human myogenesis ex vivo using human pluripotent stem cells.. Experimental cell research, 2021.
14. Nitzahn M, Truong B, Khoja S, Vega-Crespo A, Le C, Eliav A, Makris G, Pyle AD, Häberle J, Lipshutz GS. CRISPR-Mediated Genomic Addition to CPS1 Deficient iPSCs is Insufficient to Restore Nitrogen Homeostasis.. The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2021.
15. Petrigliano FA, Liu NQ, Lee S, Tassey J, Sarkar A, Lin Y, Li L, Yu Y, Geng D, Zhang J, Shkhyan R, Bogdanov J, Van Handel B, Ferguson GB, Lee Y, Hinderer S, Tseng KC, Kavanaugh A, Crump JG, Pyle AD, Schenke-Layland K, Billi F, Wang L, Lieberman J, Hurtig M, Evseenko D. Long-term repair of porcine articular cartilage using cryopreservable, clinically compatible human embryonic stem cell-derived chondrocytes.. NPJ Regenerative medicine, 2021.
16. Harn HI, Wang SP, Lai YC, Van Handel B, Liang YC, Tsai S, Schiessl IM, Sarkar A, Xi H, Hughes M, Kaemmer S, Tang MJ, Peti-Peterdi J, Pyle AD, Woolley TE, Evseenko D, Jiang TX, Chuong CM. Symmetry breaking of tissue mechanics in wound induced hair follicle regeneration of laboratory and spiny mice.. Nature communications, 2021.
17. Xi H, Young CS, Pyle AD. Generation of PAX7 Reporter Cells to Investigate Skeletal Myogenesis from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.. STAR protocols, 2020.
18. Liu J, Campagna J, John V, Damoiseaux R, Mokhonova E, Becerra D, Meng H, McNally EM, Pyle AD, Kramerova I, Spencer MJ. A Small-Molecule Approach to Restore a Slow-Oxidative Phenotype and Defective CaMKIIβ Signaling in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy.. Cell reports. Medicine, 2020.
19. Sengupta K, Mishra MK, Loro E, Spencer MJ, Pyle AD, Khurana TS. Genome Editing-Mediated Utrophin Upregulation in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Stem Cells.. Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2020.
20. Xi H, Langerman J, Sabri S, Chien P, Young CS, Younesi S, Hicks M, Gonzalez K, Fujiwara W, Marzi J, Liebscher S, Spencer M, Van Handel B, Evseenko D, Schenke-Layland K, Plath K, Pyle AD. A Human Skeletal Muscle Atlas Identifies the Trajectories of Stem and Progenitor Cells across Development and from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.. Cell stem cell, 2020.
21. Xi H, Langerman J, Sabri S, Chien P, Young CS, Younesi S, Hicks M, Gonzalez K, Fujiwara W, Marzi J, Liebscher S, Spencer M, Van Handel B, Evseenko D, Schenke-Layland K, Plath K, Pyle AD. A Human Skeletal Muscle Atlas Identifies the Trajectories of Stem and Progenitor Cells across Development and from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.. Cell stem cell, 2020.
22. Mosich GM, Husman R, Shah P, Sharma A, Rezzadeh K, Aderibigbe T, Hu VJ, McClintick DJ, Wu G, Gatto JD, Xi H, Pyle AD, Péault B, Petrigliano FA, Dar A. Non-fibro-adipogenic pericytes from human embryonic stem cells attenuate degeneration of the chronically injured mouse muscle.. JCI insight, 2019.
23. Xi H, Pyle A. Beyond the genome: RNA control of stem cells.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2019.
24. Bellmann J, Goswami RY, Girardo S, Rein N, Hosseinzadeh Z, Hicks MR, Busskamp V, Pyle AD, Werner C, Sterneckert J. A customizable microfluidic platform for medium-throughput modeling of neuromuscular circuits.. Biomaterials, 2019.
25. Young CS, Pyle AD, Spencer MJ. CRISPR for Neuromuscular Disorders: Gene Editing and Beyond.. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.), 2019.
26. Hazim RA, Karumbayaram S, Jiang M, Dimashkie A, Lopes VS, Li D, Burgess BL, Vijayaraj P, Alva-Ornelas JA, Zack JA, Kohn DB, Gomperts BN, Pyle AD, Lowry WE, Williams DS. Correction to: Differentiation of RPE cells from integration-free iPS cells and their cell biological characterization.. Stem cell research & therapy, 2019.
27. Ferguson GB, Van Handel B, Bay M, Fiziev P, Org T, Lee S, Shkhyan R, Banks NW, Scheinberg M, Wu L, Saitta B, Elphingstone J, Larson AN, Riester SM, Pyle AD, Bernthal NM, Mikkola HK, Ernst J, van Wijnen AJ, Bonaguidi M, Evseenko D. Mapping molecular landmarks of human skeletal ontogeny and pluripotent stem cell-derived articular chondrocytes.. Nature communications, 2018.
28. Roberts DC, Taylor ME, Pyle AD. Suicide Prevention for School Communities: An Educational Initiative for Student Safety.. NASN school nurse (Print), 2018.
29. Hicks MR, Hiserodt J, Paras K, Fujiwara W, Eskin A, Jan M, Xi H, Young CS, Evseenko D, Nelson SF, Spencer MJ, Handel BV, Pyle AD. ERBB3 and NGFR mark a distinct skeletal muscle progenitor cell in human development and hPSCs.. Nature cell biology, 2017.
30. Hazim RA, Karumbayaram S, Jiang M, Dimashkie A, Lopes VS, Li D, Burgess BL, Vijayaraj P, Alva-Ornelas JA, Zack JA, Kohn DB, Gomperts BN, Pyle AD, Lowry WE, Williams DS. Differentiation of RPE cells from integration-free iPS cells and their cell biological characterization.. Stem cell research & therapy, 2017.
31. Xi H, Fujiwara W, Gonzalez K, Jan M, Liebscher S, Van Handel B, Schenke-Layland K, Pyle AD. In Vivo Human Somitogenesis Guides Somite Development from hPSCs.. Cell reports, 2017.
32. Young CS, Mokhonova E, Quinonez M, Pyle AD, Spencer MJ. Creation of a Novel Humanized Dystrophic Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Application of a CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Therapy.. Journal of neuromuscular diseases, 2017.
33. Lee PC, Truong B, Vega-Crespo A, Gilmore WB, Hermann K, Angarita SA, Tang JK, Chang KM, Wininger AE, Lam AK, Schoenberg BE, Cederbaum SD, Pyle AD, Byrne JA, Lipshutz GS. Restoring Ureagenesis in Hepatocytes by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Genomic Addition to Arginase-deficient Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.. Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2016.
34. Young CS, Pyle AD. Exon Skipping Therapy.. Cell, 2016.
35. Young CS, Hicks MR, Ermolova NV, Nakano H, Jan M, Younesi S, Karumbayaram S, Kumagai-Cresse C, Wang D, Zack JA, Kohn DB, Nakano A, Nelson SF, Miceli MC, Spencer MJ, Pyle AD. A Single CRISPR-Cas9 Deletion Strategy that Targets the Majority of DMD Patients Restores Dystrophin Function in hiPSC-Derived Muscle Cells.. Cell stem cell, 2016.
36. Thakore-Shah K, Koleilat T, Jan M, John A, Pyle AD. REST/NRSF Knockdown Alters Survival, Lineage Differentiation and Signaling in Human Embryonic Stem Cells.. PloS one, 2015.
37. Hicks M, Pyle A. The Path from Pluripotency to Skeletal Muscle: Developmental Myogenesis Guides the Way.. Cell stem cell, 2015.
38. Hou S, Choi JS, Chen KJ, Zhang Y, Peng J, Garcia MA, Yu JH, Thakore-Shah K, Ro T, Chen JF, Peyda P, Fan G, Pyle AD, Wang H, Tseng HR. Supramolecular nanosubstrate-mediated delivery for reprogramming and transdifferentiation of mammalian cells.. Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2015.
39. Peng J, Garcia MA, Choi JS, Zhao L, Chen KJ, Bernstein JR, Peyda P, Hsiao YS, Liu KW, Lin WY, Pyle AD, Wang H, Hou S, Tseng HR. Molecular recognition enables nanosubstrate-mediated delivery of gene-encapsulated nanoparticles with high efficiency.. ACS nano, 2014.
40. Awe JP, Lee PC, Ramathal C, Vega-Crespo A, Durruthy-Durruthy J, Cooper A, Karumbayaram S, Lowry WE, Clark AT, Zack JA, Sebastiano V, Kohn DB, Pyle AD, Martin MG, Lipshutz GS, Phelps PE, Pera RA, Byrne JA. Generation and characterization of transgene-free human induced pluripotent stem cells and conversion to putative clinical-grade status.. Stem cell research & therapy, 2013.
41. Sherman SP, Pyle AD. Small molecule screening with laser cytometry can be used to identify pro-survival molecules in human embryonic stem cells.. PloS one, 2013.
42. Tran T, Andersen R, Sherman SP, Pyle AD. Insights into skeletal muscle development and applications in regenerative medicine.. International review of cell and molecular biology, 2013.
43. Palomares K, Vigant F, Van Handel B, Pernet O, Chikere K, Hong P, Sherman SP, Patterson M, An DS, Lowry WE, Mikkola HK, Morizono K, Pyle AD, Lee B. Nipah virus envelope-pseudotyped lentiviruses efficiently target ephrinB2-positive stem cell populations in vitro and bypass the liver sink when administered in vivo.. Journal of virology, 2012.
44. Yanes RE, Tarn D, Hwang AA, Ferris DP, Sherman SP, Thomas CR, Lu J, Pyle AD, Zink JI, Tamanoi F. Involvement of lysosomal exocytosis in the excretion of mesoporous silica nanoparticles and enhancement of the drug delivery effect by exocytosis inhibition.. Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2012.
45. Jonas SJ, Alva JA, Richardson W, Sherman SP, Galic Z, Pyle AD, Dunn B. A spatially and chemically defined platform for the uniform growth of human pluripotent stem cells.. Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications, 2012.
46. Karumbayaram S, Lee P, Azghadi SF, Cooper AR, Patterson M, Kohn DB, Pyle A, Clark A, Byrne J, Zack JA, Plath K, Lowry WE. From skin biopsy to neurons through a pluripotent intermediate under Good Manufacturing Practice protocols.. Stem cells translational medicine, 2011.
47. Alva JA, Lee GE, Escobar EE, Pyle AD. Phosphatase and tensin homolog regulates the pluripotent state and lineage fate choice in human embryonic stem cells.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2011.
48. Le Belle JE, Orozco NM, Paucar AA, Saxe JP, Mottahedeh J, Pyle AD, Wu H, Kornblum HI. Proliferative neural stem cells have high endogenous ROS levels that regulate self-renewal and neurogenesis in a PI3K/Akt-dependant manner.. Cell stem cell, 2011.
49. Sherman SP, Alva JA, Thakore-Shah K, Pyle AD. Human pluripotent stem cells: the development of high-content screening strategies.. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2011.
50. Tchieu J, Kuoy E, Chin MH, Trinh H, Patterson M, Sherman SP, Aimiuwu O, Lindgren A, Hakimian S, Zack JA, Clark AT, Pyle AD, Lowry WE, Plath K. Female human iPSCs retain an inactive X chromosome.. Cell stem cell, 2010.
51. Tseng HC, Arasteh A, Paranjpe A, Teruel A, Yang W, Behel A, Alva JA, Walter G, Head C, Ishikawa TO, Herschman HR, Cacalano N, Pyle AD, Park NH, Jewett A. Increased lysis of stem cells but not their differentiated cells by natural killer cells; de-differentiation or reprogramming activates NK cells.. PloS one, 2010.
52. Kamei K, Ohashi M, Gschweng E, Ho Q, Suh J, Tang J, For Yu ZT, Clark AT, Pyle AD, Teitell MA, Lee KB, Witte ON, Tseng HR. Microfluidic image cytometry for quantitative single-cell profiling of human pluripotent stem cells in chemically defined conditions.. Lab on a chip, 2010.
53. Zeng W, de Greef JC, Chen YY, Chien R, Kong X, Gregson HC, Winokur ST, Pyle A, Robertson KD, Schmiesing JA, Kimonis VE, Balog J, Frants RR, Ball AR, Lock LF, Donovan PJ, van der Maarel SM, Yokomori K. Specific loss of histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation and HP1gamma/cohesin binding at D4Z4 repeats is associated with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD).. PLoS genetics, 2009.
54. Chin MH, Mason MJ, Xie W, Volinia S, Singer M, Peterson C, Ambartsumyan G, Aimiuwu O, Richter L, Zhang J, Khvorostov I, Ott V, Grunstein M, Lavon N, Benvenisty N, Croce CM, Clark AT, Baxter T, Pyle AD, Teitell MA, Pelegrini M, Plath K, Lowry WE. Induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells are distinguished by gene expression signatures.. Cell stem cell, 2009.
55. Damoiseaux R, Sherman SP, Alva JA, Peterson C, Pyle AD. Integrated chemical genomics reveals modifiers of survival in human embryonic stem cells.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2009.
56. Conway AE, Lindgren A, Galic Z, Pyle AD, Wu H, Zack JA, Pelligrini M, Teitell MA, Clark AT. A self-renewal program controls the expansion of genetically unstable cancer stem cells in pluripotent stem cell-derived tumors.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2009.
57. Wu H, Kim KJ, Mehta K, Paxia S, Sundstrom A, Anantharaman T, Kuraishy AI, Doan T, Ghosh J, Pyle AD, Clark A, Lowry W, Fan G, Baxter T, Mishra B, Sun Y, Teitell MA. Copy number variant analysis of human embryonic stem cells.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2008.
58. Hohenstein KA, Pyle AD, Chern JY, Lock LF, Donovan PJ. Nucleofection mediates high-efficiency stable gene knockdown and transgene expression in human embryonic stem cells.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2008.
59. Lowry WE, Richter L, Yachechko R, Pyle AD, Tchieu J, Sridharan R, Clark AT, Plath K. Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells from dermal fibroblasts.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008.
60. Pyle AD, Lock LF, Donovan PJ. Neurotrophins mediate human embryonic stem cell survival.. Nature biotechnology, 2006.
61. Fenderson BA, De Miguel MP, Pyle AD, Donovan PJ. Staining embryonic stem cells using monoclonal antibodies to stage-specific embryonic antigens.. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2006.
62. Dravid G, Ye Z, Hammond H, Chen G, Pyle A, Donovan P, Yu X, Cheng L. Defining the role of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in the survival, proliferation, and self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells.. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2005.
63. Pyle AD, Donovan PJ, Lock LF. Chipping away at 'stemness'.. Genome biology, 2004.
64. Sharan SK, Pyle A, Coppola V, Babus J, Swaminathan S, Benedict J, Swing D, Martin BK, Tessarollo L, Evans JP, Flaws JA, Handel MA. BRCA2 deficiency in mice leads to meiotic impairment and infertility.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2003.
65. Pyle A, Handel MA. Meiosis in male PL/J mice: a genetic model for gametic aneuploidy.. Molecular reproduction and development, 2003.
66. Eaker S, Cobb J, Pyle A, Handel MA. Meiotic prophase abnormalities and metaphase cell death in MLH1-deficient mouse spermatocytes: insights into regulation of spermatogenic progress.. Developmental biology, 2002.