Francesca Soncin, PhD

Congratulations to Ruben for the Trainee Travel Award at the annual SSR meeting! #SSR2025

I'm hiring! Position available immediately in my lab for a Staff Research Associate (I/II). Check job posting and apply via the UCSD website here employment.ucsd.edu/staff-research… #hiring #SRA #UCSD #research

Our work on SARS-CoV-2 infection in trophoblast stem cells out and featured on the cover of Stem Cells and Development! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 #placenta #scienceiscool

@ea_enningaPhD @LLUMedCenter Congratulations!

Truly honored to have received the first Longo/Powers Award, named for 2 dynamite perinatal researchers, at the 5th Annual Longo Symposium @LLUMedCenter Thanks to the organizers for the recognition and putting together a fantastic day of science #reproimmunology

Attending the EDI lecture series seminar at UC San Diego Park and Market. Who knew UC San Diego had a building downtown? #EquityDiversityInclusion #UCSanDiego

⁦Lovely presentation by our faculty ⁦@kathleenfisch⁩ on her team’s multimodal atlas of a term human #placenta ⁦@UCSD_ObGyn⁩ #sri2023

@placresearch @SRIWomensHealth The FOMO is real! 😆

Loving all of the @SRIWomensHealth #SRI2023 social media activity, helping those of us not able to attend experience a taste of the fantastic science

Should you stop taking the pill to reduce your risk of #breastcancer?

@ADiaz_PhD Here #FirstGen college student, PhD and now faculty. Figuring it out as I go.

Are you a First-Gen Faculty? Say Hi👋🏼. Let’s continue building our network.

As post-doc are hard to find, I also opened a position for an SRA I/II to work on a CIRM Disc 0 grant on drivers of trophoblast stem cells in the placenta. Info and application here: employment.ucsd.edu/staff-research…

Day 1 of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute Symposium is closing strong with @moderna_tx co-founder Derrick/Derek Rossi on mRNA potential as therapeutic

@ShiriGurCohen Happy Birthday!

Today is my birthday and I pushed “submit” three times🥳. Should I make my bday wish now?🎂🙏🏻

Please, share and spread the word. #networking

I'm looking to grow my lab with a post-doc with funds from CIRM

This fun collaboration review paper is out! Much is still misterious in the mechanisms of development of the trophoblast lineage. @temple_jasmine link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Interns and their posters at the CIRM Bridges Annual Trainee Meeting #scientistintraining #scienceisfun #placentaandstemcells instagram.com/p/CgfjFDxPmUP/…

Congratulations to this year's @CPD_UCSD Pilot Project Grant recipients @kathleenfisch and @DrPantham #repromed @UCSDHealthSci

@DrPantham @CPD_UCSD @UCSD_ObGyn That's exactly what I was thinking!

Amazing to see neonatologist like Karen Mestan looking back at the pre-birth environment and the placenta to drive healthcare choices for pre-term babies #pretermbirth #placenta #molecularepidemiology