Learn more about the research interests of faculty in the Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program by selecting from the categories below.
Yousef Abu-Amer, PhD
Investigating molecular mechanisms underlying inflammation-induced degenerative skeletal diseases including joint degeneration, inflammatory arthritis and osteolysis
Jennifer Alexander-Brett, MD, PhD
Respiratory immunobiology, with particular interest in cytokine pathways associated with lung epithelial progenitors.
Rajendra 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.
Steven Bassnet, PhD
Luis F. Z. Batista, PhD
Understanding the role of telomerase and other ribonucleoproteins during tissue homeostasis, regeneration, aging, and cancer
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.
Paul Bridgman, PhD
Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Douglas Chalker, PhD
Genetic and epigenetic regulation of developmentally programmed DNA rearrangements of Tetrahymena.
Grant Challen, PhD
Understanding the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate normal and leukemic stem cells.
Feng Chen, PhD
Shiming Chen, PhD
Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas.
Zhou-Feng Chen, PhD
Milan Chheda, MD
Identifying and characterizing the genetic and epigenetic events that induce cancer and maintain tumors.