Helen Huang
Helen Huang
PhD Student
huangx16@hs.uci.edu
Helen is a Ph.D. student studying how aging and inflammation shape hematopoietic stem cell function and clonal selection. She joined the Fleischman Lab at UC Irvine as an undergraduate. Her current research focuses on how the aged and inflammatory bone marrow environment influences hematopoietic stem cell fitness and the selection of mutant clones associated with clonal hematopoiesis. She is particularly interested in how oxidative and inflammatory stress contribute to age-related changes in blood stem cell behavior, and in exploring N-acetylcysteine (NAC) as a potential strategy to mitigate these age- and inflammation-associated effects.