Stem Cell Niche & Homing
Yunhua Bao
Associate Research Scientist in Pathology
Research Interests:iPSCs, ESCs; Differentiation; Patients; Myogenesis; Transgenic
- Office:(203) 737-1189
Angelique Bordey
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neurogenesis; stem cells; mTOR; Neural stem cell; Cognitive functions; autism
Clinical Interests:Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Autism, Neurodevelopmental disorder
- Office:(203) 737-2515
- Lab:(203) 737-2500
Richard Flavell
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department Chair, Immunobiology
Research Interests:Animal Models; Autoimmunity; Diabetes; Gene Expression; Gene Transfer; Genes; Immune System; Lyme Borreliosis Or Lyme Disease; Molecular Cellular Entities; Recombinant DNA; Transgenic Animals; Autoimmunity; Knockout Mice; Lyme Disease; T Cell Lineages; Tolerance; Transgenic Mice
- Office:(203) 737-2216
Bernard Forget
Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Hematology) and Professor of Genetics and of Medicine (Hematology)
Research Interests:Molecular Genetics of Erythroid Cell Differentiation; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology
Clinical Interests:Red blood cell disorders; hemoglobinopathies; red cell membrane disorders; hemolytic anemias; sickle cell anemia; thalassemia
- Office:(203) 785-7002
- Lab:(203) 785-4154
- Appt:(203) 785-4744
Valentina Greco
Assistant Professor of Genetics and of Dermatology
Research Interests:Organ regeneration in vertebrate systems; Stem cells; Stem cell niche organization; cancer
Valerie Horsley
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Dermatology
Qi Li
Associate Research Scientist in Pathology
Research Interests:Cell- Matrix and Cell-Cell Interactions; Integrin-Mediated Signaling. Neural Stem cell development.
Joseph Madri
Professor of Pathology
Director of Education
Research Interests:Connective tissue disorders; Cell-Matrix and Cell-Cell Interactions; Integrin-Mediated Signaling; Cardio-vascular development; Angiogenesis and Vascular Biology; inflammation; T-cell-Endothelial cell interactions
Clinical Interests:cardiovascular development; effects of premature birth on brain development; connective tissue disorders; autoimmune diseases - specifically multiple sclerosis; effects of maternal diabetes on offspring
- Office:(203) 785-2763
- Appt:(203) 785-2783
Don Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:Metastasis; Lung cancer; Cancer genomics; Tumor microenvironment
- Office:(203) 737-4514
Laura Niklason
Professor of Anesthesiology and of Biomedical Engineering and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Section Chief
Vice Chair, Research
Research Interests:Anesthesiology; Biomedical Engineering; Biophysics; Physics
Clinical Interests:Critical care medicine; vascular disease; heart failure
Jean-Leon Thomas
Associate Professor of Neurology
Research Interests:Neural stem cells; Glial cells; Neurovascular niches; Cell proliferation and differentiation; Cell migration; Vascular growth factors and receptors; Axonal guidance molecules
Agnès Vignery
Senior Research Scientist in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and in Cell Biology
Research Interests:Differentiation mechanism of osteoblasts; Fusion mechanism of macrophages
- Office:(203) 785-5968
- Lab:(203) 785-6342
Dianqing (Dan) Wu
Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Wnt; signal transduction; G protein, Chemotaxis;Cell migration; Cancer biology and therapeutics; Stem cell biology; Chemoattractant signaling; Inflammation
- Office:(203) 785-3149
- Lab:(203) 785-6262
John Wysolmerski
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Research Interests:Parathyroid hormone-related protein; calcium sensing receptor; breast development; lactation; osteoporosis; bone metastases
Clinical Interests:Osteoporosis; metabolic bone diseases; osteomalacia; Paget's disease; disorders of calcium metabolism; disorders of vitamin D metabolism; hyperparathyroidism; hypoparathyroidism; parathyroid adenomas; parathyroid cancer; endocrine cancers
- Appt:(203) 737-1932
