Tissue-Specific Stem Cells & Therapy
Herve Agaisse
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Host/pathogen interaction, microorganisms; infection; cell-to-cell spread; Listeria; Shigella; Chlamydia; Rickettsia; Vaccinia; Drosophila melanogaster; immune response; stem cells; JAK/STAT signaling; aging
Jeffrey Bender
Robert I. Levy Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Immunobiology
Associate Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Interests:Inflammatory, Immune, Metabolic and Hormonal Effects on the Endothelium
Clinical Interests:Clinical cardiology; preventive cardiology
- Office:(203) 737-2223
- Appt:(203) 785-7191
Anton Bennett
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Comparative Medicine
Co-Director, Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism
Director, BBS Minority Affairs
Research Interests:Signal transduction; Protein tyrosine phosphatases; Cancer; Diabetes; Obesity; Muscle stem cells; Muscular dystrophy
- Office:(203) 737-2441
- Lab:(203) 785-4395
Lloyd Cantley
C. N. H. Long Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Associate Chair, Research
Research Interests:Nephrology; physiology and integrative medical biology; epithelial cell migration and morphogenesis; epithelial cell adhesion; migration; branching tubulogenesis
Clinical Interests:Glomerulonephritis; vasculitis; electrolyte disorders
- Office:(203) 785-4186
- Lab:(203) 785-7111
Yung-Chi Cheng
Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology
Chairman, Consortium for the Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM)
Research Interests:Cancer; Viral chemotherapy; Chinese herbs; Chinese medicine
- Office:(203) 785-7118
- Lab:(203) 785-7119
Geoffrey Chupp
Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary)
Director, Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease (YCAAD)
Director, Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Research Interests:Pathogenesis of airway diseases with a focus on asthma and asthma severity; Chitinases in the development and severity of asthma; Expression and genotype-phenotype relationships of novel inflammatory molecules
Clinical Interests:Airways diseases, including asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); eosinophilic lung diseases, including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, eosinophilic pneumonias, Churg Strauss Syndrome; cardiopulmonary exercise testing; pulmonary function testing
- Office:(203) 785-3627
- Lab:(203) 737-5413
- Appt:(203) 785-4198
Valentina Greco
Assistant Professor of Genetics and of Dermatology
Research Interests:Organ regeneration in vertebrate systems; Stem cells; Stem cell niche organization; cancer
Stephanie Halene
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology)
Research Interests:Hematopoiesis; Myeloid differentiation; Leukemia; Myelodysplasia
Clinical Interests:Leukemia; myelodysplasia; myeloproliferative disorders; polycythemia; thrombocytosis; thrombocytopenia; sickle cell disease; thrombosis; coagulation
- Appt:(203) 200-4363
Marc Hammarlund
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Research Interests:Axon regeneration and degeneration; Neuronal plasticity; Femtosecond laser surgery; C. elegans neurobiology
Erica Herzog
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary)
Director, Translational Lung Research Program
Co-Director, Yale Fibrosis Program
Assistant Director, Medical Student Research, Department of Medicine
Research Interests:Pulmonary fibrosis; Semaphorins; Regulatory T cells; Plexin C1; Bioengineering
Clinical Interests:Interstitial lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, diffuse parenchymal lung disease
- Office:(203) 785-3627
- Appt:(203) 785-4198
Valerie Horsley
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Dermatology
Jeffery Kocsis
Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology
Director , Postdoctoral Studies
Associate Director, Yale Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research
Senior Medical Research Career Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs
Research Interests:Transplantation-based approaches toward restoration and preservation of function in the injured central nervous system; Axonal Regeneration; Cell Transplantation; Ion Channels; Nerve Injury; Remyelination; Spinal Cord Injury
- Office:(203) 937-3802
Diane Krause
Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Cell Biology and of Pathology
Assoc. Director, Yale Stem Cell Center
Assoc. Director, Transfusion Medicine Service
Director, Frisbee Laboratory for Hematopoietic Graft Engineering
Research Interests:Bone Marrow Transplantation; Stem Cells; Cell and Molecular Hematology; Leukemia
Clinical Interests:Transfusion medicine; stem cell transplantation; stem cell processing; apheresis
- Office:(203) 737-1678
Jordan Pober
Bayer Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Dermatology and of Pathology
Director, Human and Translational Immunology Program
Vice-Chair, Dept. of Immunobiology for the Section of Human and Translational Immunology
Research Interests:Immunobiology of vascular endothelial cells: cytokine actions and mechanisms; transplantation immunology
- Office:(203) 737-2292
Yibing Qyang
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Pathology
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Interests:Heart; Stem cell; ES cell; iPS cell; Physiology; Tissue engineering; Small molecule; Patient; Disease; Cardiovascular
D. Eugene Redmond Jr.
Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurosurgery
Research Interests:Dopamine; Fetal Neural Tissue; Gene Therapy; MPTP Primate Model; Neural Grafts; Parkinson's Disease; Stem Cell
- Office:(203) 785-4432
Lawrence Rizzolo
Associate Professor of Surgery (Gross Anatomy) and of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Director of Medical Studies
Research Interests:Retinal disease; Tight junctions; Outer blood-retinal barrier; Epithelia; Human embryonic stem cells; Bio/tissue engineering; Medical education
Clinical Interests:Medical education
- Office:(203) 785-6277
- Lab:(203) 785-6987
Matthew Rodeheffer
Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:Genomics; Stem Cells
Nancy Ruddle
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Cell trafficking and inflammation in autoimmunity and lymphoid organ development
Masanori Sasaki
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neurology
Research Interests:Cell Transplantation for Spinal Cord Injury and CNS diseases
Warren Shlomchik
Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology), of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Hematology)
Research Interests:Mechanisms of antigen presentation; T cell effector function and regulation of Graft-vs.-Host Disease and Graft-vs.-Leukemia
Clinical Interests:Bone marrow transplant
- Office:(203) 737-2478
- Appt:(203) 785-4191
Mario Strazzabosco
Professor (Adjunct) of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Director, Transplant Hepatology
Research Interests:Epithelial Cell Biology, Pathophysiology of Diseases of the Biliary Tree, Liver Cell Therapy, Treatment of Liver Cancer
Clinical Interests:liver transplantation; liver cancer; liver cirrhosis; biliary tract diseases and cholestasis; primary biliary cirrhosis; primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Office:(203) 737-6060
- Appt:(203) 785-4138
Scott Swenson
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Associate Director, Fellowship Training Program in Digestive Diseases
Research Interests:Stem and progenitor cells; Liver; Liver injury; Pancreatic acinar cells; Exocrine function; Secretion
- Office:(203) 785-2441
- Lab:(203) 785-4131
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
