Welcome the 2025-2026 MSK T32 Research Fellows

The mission of the UCSF Musculoskeletal (MSK) Training Program is to prepare a diverse community of Ph.D. scientists and M.D. or M.D./Ph.D. residents and fellows for a lifetime of scholarly pursuits that lead to in-depth understanding and improved care of patients with MSK diseases.
 

The program also emphasizes basic, clinical and translational science education by providing curricular opportunities designed explicitly for musculoskeletal science; individualized development plans that utilize evidence-based approaches for career planning; exposure to state-of-the-art methods and techniques through workshops, invited lectures, monthly research-in-progress seminars, journal clubs, and an annual retreat; and scientific communication through grant-writing and publication-writing activities and presentations at national meetings.

Learn more about our third cohort of T32 scholars below:

 

Eva Gonzalez

Alexander Murphy, MD
PGY-4 Resident, Plastic Surgery
Project: “Lipid Nanoparticles as Gene Therapy Vectors for Treatment of Apert Syndrome”
Mentor: Jason Pomerantz, MD

Ryan Halvorson

Ashutosh Parajuli, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Project: “A Multi-Omics Framework Reveals a Muscle-Derived Progenitor Axis in Abaloparatide-Accelerated Fracture Repair”
Mentor: Daniel Bikle, MD, PhD

Zsofia Torok

Zsofia Torok, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Project: Identifying Sex-Specific Pathways of Hypothalamic-Ventricular Crosstalk in Bone Homeostasis