Pamela Itkin-Ansari earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, in 1999. She received postdoctoral training focused on diabetes at that same organization. In 2003, Dr. Itkin-Ansari was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego. She moved her laboratory to Sanford Burnham Prebys in 2005.
Funding Awards and Collaborative Grants
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
Falk Foundation
The Hartwell Foundation
The Hirshberg Foundation
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
National Institutes of Health
Select Honors and Recognition
2013-2014: Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, UCSD
2011-2014: Hartwell Foundation Biomedical Research Award
2011: Invited Speaker, TEDx
2008-2013: Board of Directors, JDRF San Diego
2008: Health Hero Leadership Award, Combined Health Agencies of San Diego
Other Affiliations
2012-current: Islet Society
2010-current: ASGCT
2008-current: Board of Directors, JDRF San Diego chapter
2008-2013: JDRF board of directors, San Diego
2007-current: American Association for Cancer Research
2007-current: American Diabetes Association
2007-current: American Pediatric Society/Society for Pediatric Research
2006-current: AAAS
