Sarah Ackerman, PhD
astrocytes, plasticity, circuits, development, myelination
- Email: sarah.ackerman@wustl.edu
Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD
Innate immunity and immune effector mechanisms in the retina; oxidative stress and cell death; models of developmental angiogenesis and neovascularization; inflammation and photoreceptor survival; macular degeneration
- Email: apte@vision.wustl.edu
Vivek Arora, MD
My laboratory uses a variety of approaches to discover the molecular events that drive prostate and bladder cancer genesis and progression.
- Email: arorav@wustl.edu
Luis F. Z. Batista, PhD
Understanding the importance of telomerase in human stem and progenitor cell function and regulation
- Email: lbatista@wustl.edu
Carmen Bergom, MD, PhD
Identification of new targets to improve tumor radiation effectiveness and to protect normal tissues such as the heart from radiation injury
- Email: acbergom@wustl.edu
David M. Brogan, MD, MSc
Nerve injury, nerve regeneration, intra-operatively, mechanisms of inhibiting Wallerian degeneration, Schwann cell dedifferentiation
- Email: brogand@wustl.edu
Andreas H. Burkhalter, PhD
Structure and physiology of neuronal circuits in mouse visual cortex
- Email: burkhala@pcg.wustl.edu
Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Cellular, Molecular and Epigenetic control of axon regeneration
- Email: cavalli@wustl.edu
Douglas L. Chalker, PhD
Chromatin structure, development, DNA, genome rearrangements, RNA interference, transcription
- Email: dchalker@wustl.edu
Grant Challen, PhD
Hematopoietic stem cells, Leukemia stem cells, Epigenetic modifications
- Email: gchallen@wustl.edu
Feng Chen, PhD
genetic determinants and pathogenic mechanisms of urogenital diseases with the goal of improving diagnostic and therapeutic strategies targeting these diseases
- Email: fchen@wustl.edu
Shiming Chen, PhD
Gene expression regulation, transcription factors, epigenetic regulators, photoreceptor development and degeneration, mouse models, gene therapy
- Email: chen@vision.wustl.edu
Shiming Chen, PhD
Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas
- Email: chenshiming@wustl.edu
Milan G. Chheda, MD
Understanding epigenetic and genetic mechanisms governing the cancer stem cell state
- Email: mchheda@dom.wustl.edu
Kyunghee Choi, PhD
Cell fate, transcription factors, hematopoiesis, vascular, development, regeneration, stem cells, angiogenesis, tumor
- Email: kchoi@pathology.wustl.edu
F. Sessions Cole, MD
Functional genomics, bioinformatics, pulmonary surfactant, lung development
- Email: cole@kids.wustl.edu
Jonathan Cooper, PhD
Batten Disease, Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, NCL, Lysosomal Storage Disease, pathogenesis, pre-clinical therapies, enzyme replacement, gene therapy
- Email: cooperjd@wustl.edu
Joseph C. Corbo, MD, PhD
Neurobiology, genomics, transcriptional networks, systems biology, photoreceptors, brain, neuropsychiatric disease, disease, cis-regulation
- Email: jcorbo@wustl.edu
David Curiel, MD, PhD
development of virus-based therapeutics for inherited and acquired disorders
- Email: dcuriel@wustl.edu
Zhiyu Dai, PhD
lung vascular biology, cardiopulmonary diseases, single-cell RNA-sequencing, spatial transcriptomics
- Email: z.dai@wustl.edu
Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD
Axon, endocytosis, nerve regeneration, axon degeneration, neurodegeneration, neuronal development and differentiation, synapse biology, drug screens
- Email: diantonio@wustl.edu
Eric Greer, PhD
Epigenetics, Transgenerational, Imprinting, Evolution, Multicellularity, Cancer, Tumorigenesis, Epitranscriptomics
- Email: ericg@wustl.edu
Farshid Guilak
osteoarthritis, obesity, mechanobiology and mechanisms of mechanical signal transduction in cartilage, stem-cell therapy
- Email: guilak@wustl.edu
Erik D. Herzog, PhD
Neurobiology, physiology, behavior, imaging, circadian rhythm, olfaction, gliotransmission, brain cancer, potassium channels, computational modeling
- Email: herzog@wustl.edu
Nathaniel Huebsch, PhD
growth factor cell signaling, drug discovery, disease modeling, regenerative medicine
- Email: nhuebsch@wustl.edu
Shin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD
Understanding the molecular mechanism of aging and longevity in mammals
- Email: imaishin@wustl.edu
Masatoshi Inoue, PhD
protein engineering, systems neuroscience, optical molecular tools, neurological disorders
- Email: inoue.m@wustl.edu
Sanjay Jain, MD, PhD
Development, gene expression, genomics, disease models, Gdnf-Ret signaling, kidney, bladder, innervation, stem cells, organogenesis, nervous system development, translational research
- Email: sjain22@wustl.edu
Yoon-A Kang, PhD
Hematopoietic stem cells, Multipotent progenitor, Cell fate decision, Lineage specification
- Email: yoonakang@wustl.edu
Celeste M. Karch, PhD
Neurodegeneration, neurogenetics, Alzheimer`s disease, frontotemporal dementia, tau, amyloid precursor protein, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), cell and molecular biology, molecular mechanisms
- Email: karchc@wustl.edu
Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD
Imaging, mathematical modeling, neurobiology, physiology, synapse biology, vision
Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD
understand how neural circuits compute behaviorally relevant information: identify the principles and mechanisms that guide the assembly of neural circuits; develop strategies to preserve and restore circuit functions disrupted by disease
- Email: kerschensteinerd@wustl.edu
Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD
Malignant brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme, neural stem cells, nervous system development
- Email: kima@wudosis.wustl.edu
Ramakrishna Kommagani, PhD
Understanding the cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms that underlie reproductive tract function and its pathology
- Email: kommagani@wustl.edu
S. Kerry Kornfeld, MD, PhD
Aging, metals, zinc, development, sperm activation, signal transduction, homeostasis
- Email: kornfeld@wustl.edu
Kristen L. Kroll, PhD
Epigenetic, neurobiology, embryonic stem cell, neural stem cell, transcription, gene regulatory network, cancer, cell cycle, chromatin, embryo
- Email: kkroll@wustl.edu
Kory Lavine, MD, PhD
Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, Transplant
- Email: klavine@dom.wustl.edu
Rebekah Lawrence, PT, PhD
shoulder mechanics, pathology, and function with focus on rehabilitation
- Email: r.lawrence@wustl.edu
Tristan Qingyun Li, PhD
microglia, neuroimmunology, development, aging, neurodegeneration, single cell
- Email: qingyunli@wustl.edu
Xiaowei Li, PhD
Developing biomaterials platforms for regenerative medicine, with specific interest in applications of biomaterials for angiogenesis and vascularization, stem cell engineering and tissue regeneration.
- Email: xiaoweili@wustl.edu
Irfan J. Lodhi, PhD
Adipose tissue, brown fat, diabetes, obesity, cancer, lipogenesis, lipid metabolism, peroxisomes
- Email: ilodhi@dom.wustl.edu
Gregory D. Longmore, MD
Cell motility, cancer metastasis, cell adhesion, signal transduction
- Email: glongmor@dom.wustl.edu
Muhammad Faraz Masood, MD
Endocarditis, heart failure, surgery, medicine, clinical
- Email: masoodm@wudosis.wustl.edu
Gabriel Mbalaviele, PhD
Inflammation, Inflammasome, NLRP3, Bone, Skeleton, Cytokines
- Email: gmbalavi@dom.wustl.edu