Caroline Hendry, PhD

My personal research interest is in understanding the genetic basis of development and disease. I completed my graduate studies in kidney developmental biology where my thesis focused on the forced reprogramming of adult human kidney cells to a nephron progenitor-like population. My postdoctoral work expanded the principle of reprogramming to other cell types, including hematopoietic progenitor cells, as well as induced pluripotent stem cells for disease modeling. At Yale, my research efforts focus on understanding the fundamental cellular and molecular principles that govern successful reproduction, early embryogenesis and subsequent developmental processes.