Faculty Directory

Faculty	Department	Lab Affiliation(s)	Interests
Hani A. Awad, Ph.D.	Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Awad Lab	Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
Michael Becker, M.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine		Malignant stem cell populations in myeloid neoplasms
Danielle Benoit, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Benoit Lab	Therapeutic Biomaterials
Abdellatif Benraiss, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Neurology	Goldman Lab	The use of gene therapeutic strategies to induce and regulate neurogenesis from endogenous neural stem cells in the adult mammalian brain, with a particular emphasis on developing this as a therapeutic strategy in Huntington's disease.
Benoit Biteau, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Biteau Lab	Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem Cells
Dirk Bohmann, Ph.D.	Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Bohmann Lab	The biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics of signal-transducing transcription factors and their role in development, aging and disease
Laura M. Calvi, M.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	Calvi Lab	Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Microenvironmental Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow
Steven A. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Neurology	Goldman Lab	Identify the expression patterns of the major categories of stem and progenitor cells of the adult human brain and to use that information to define the signaling pathways that distinguish one progenitor from another, as well as those that distinguish brain tumor stem and progenitor cells from their normal counterparts.
Paul Kingsley, Ph.D.	Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics		Embryonic hematopoiesis
Hartmut Land, Ph.D.	Chair and Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Land Lab	Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Signaling and Cancer Cell Metabolism
Xin Z. Li, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Xin Li Lab	Small non-coding RNA regulation in germ cells; meiosis; male infertility.
Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Mayer-Pröschel Lab	Stem Cells in the mammalian CNS / Gestational insults and embryonic CNS development / Astrocyte dysfunction
Kathleen McGrath, Ph.D.	Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	Palis Lab	A fundamental curiosity about how cells decide which fate to adopt as embryos develop.
Joseph M. Miano, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine		Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Growth and Differentiation Control
Maiken Nedergaard, M.D.	DMSc Professor of Neurosurgery	Nedergaard Lab	The basic biology of glial cells in the CNS and the role of astrocytes in several neurological diseases, including stroke, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, tremor, and ALS. Research is aimed at defining new strategies for the treatment of neurological diseases that target astrocytic dysfunction.
Mark Noble, Ph.D.	Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Noble Lab	Neural Diseases and Neoplasia
Michael A. O'Reilly, Ph.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	O'Reilly Lab	Developmental Biology of the Lung
Catherine E. Ovitt, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Ovitt Lab	Analysis of Genes Involved in Salivary Gland Function
James Palis, M.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	Palis Lab	Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Weiguo Peng, M.D.	Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery	Nedergaard Lab	Spinal cord and spinal nerve injury; more specifically the secondary injury after spinal cord trauma and how to improve the recovery of spinal cord injury.
Douglas Portman, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Portman Lab	Genetics and genomics of nervous system development in the Nematode C. elegans
Christoph Pröschel, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biomedical Genetics	Pröschel Lab	Glial progenitors and the role of astrocytes in CNS disease and repair.
J. E. Puzas, Ph.D.	Professor of Orthopaedics	Puzas Lab	Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Skeletal System
Eileen M. Redmond, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Surgery	Redmond Lab	Notch and Hedgehog in vessel remodeling. The cardiovascular effects of alcohol.
Randy N. Rosier, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Orthopaedics	Rosier Lab	Regulation of Endochondral Ossification.
Edward M. Schwarz, Ph.D.	Professor of Orthopaedics	Schwarz Lab	Pro-inflammatory cytokine signal transduction and novel drug and gene therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Takahiro Takano, Ph.D.	Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology		Purinergic signaling in peripheral nociceptive nerve, neurovascular coupling, stroke injury and astrocytic communication
Xinping Zhang, B.Med., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Orthopaedics	Zhang Lab	Skeletal repair and reconstruction