Dr. Mana Parast is a Professor in Residence at the University of California, San Diego. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester in 1994, and her medical (2002) and doctorate degree (2001) from the University of Virginia. She completed a residency in Anatomical Pathology at Emory University in 2005, and a fellowship in Women’s and Perinatal Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2006. Parast joined the faculty at University of California, San Diego in 2008, where she is the Director of Perinatal Pathology; in her research lab, she studies the differences in trophoblast differentiation that lead to abnormal placental development. Learn more about Parast research here.
Dr. Mana Parast provides an introduction to placental development, the organ that every mammalian embryo needs for proper growth and development. (Talk recorded in September 2018)
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