Tinker funding received
4/11/2025We are excited to receive funding through the "Dr. John Tinker Memorial Research Fund". We are humbled and grateful, and we believe that with these funds we will be able to advance cardiovascular medicine in the future.
Daya Singh joined the lab!
1/15/2025Daya is an expert in iPSC technology and is excited to work on GPCRs in the lab.
Welcome Daya !
Maia arrived
12/1/2024Welcome Maia Alberts. We are happy to have you on board !
First big "tool" arrived
11/11/2024We are happy to receive our new PHERAstar FSX platereader - Big step forward to get the science started
Opening of the Obal Lab at the University of Iowa
08/01/2024First publication on human induced pluripotent stem cells
10/01/2020Induced pluripotent stem cells as a platform to understand patient-specific responses to opioids and anaesthetics
Start of the COVID 19 epidemic
03/01/2020Starting the lab during the COVID19 epidemic was challenging, but we made it !
Opening of the Obal Lab at Stanford University
01/31/2020Assistant Professor University Medical Line - Stanford University
12/1/2021Starting to work with human iPSCs at Stanford University
09/01/2019Dr. Obal starts his training in iPSC-technology at Stanford University