Pionik Shahgholian

Pionik Shahgholian is a Cell and Molecular biology major at California State University Northridge, who is joining the Butler lab as a research intern for the CIRM Bridges program. Pionik’s project aims to understand the molecular program of spinal cord development to improve methods of deriving spinal sensory interneurons from stem cells. Pionik likes to travel and train at the gym in her free time.