Current Faculty
Kamp, Timothy J.
Research Interests – Cardiogenesis from embryonic stem cells
Kang, Junsu
Research Interests – Heart regeneration, fin regeneration, regeneration enhancer, gene regulation, genetic mutant, zebrafish
Kumar, Abhishek
Liu, Bo
Research Interests – Biology of blood vessels, inflammation, intracellular signaling, cell death, cell-cell communications, extracellular matrix protein biology
Lo Sardo, Valentina
Research Interests – Genetic risk factors in cardiovascular disease and cancer, role in cell fate and state determination, ethnicity-based risk for disease
Nance, Jeremy
Research Interests – C. elegans, embryogenesis, cell polarity, gastrulation, organogenesis, epithelial cells, germ cells, cancer, developmental genetics, stem cell biology
Ponik, Suzanne
Research Interests – Breast cancer, cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, and immune modulation in the collagen-dense tumor microenvironment
Poss, Kenneth
Research Interests – Concepts and mechanisms of tissue regeneration
Slukvin, Igor
Research Interests – Hematopoietic development from pluripotent stem cells; de novo generation of hematopoietic stem cells, modeling leukemia stem cells using reprogramming technologies