Dr. Cindy Malone began her scientific career wearing hip-waders in a swamp behind her home in Illinois. She earned her BS in Biology at Illinois State University and her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at UCLA. Cindy continued her post-doctoral work at UCLA in Molecular Genetics. She is currently a distinguished educator and an Associate Professor at California State University, Northridge, where she is the Director of the CSUN-UCLA Bridges to Stem Cell Research Program funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Cindy’s research is aimed at training masters and undergraduate degree candidates to understand how genes are regulated through epigenetic and genetic mechanisms that alter gene expression.

Dr. Malone has been teaching non-biology majors for over fifteen years and has won curriculum enhancement and teaching awards at CSUN.