Albert D. Donnenberg, PhD
Albert D. Donnenberg, PhD
Dr. Albert Donnenberg is a Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Professor of Infectious Disease and Microbiology in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to research activities, Dr. Donnenberg is Director of both the UPMC and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Hematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratories. He is also a member of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Cellular and Molecular Pathology Training Program. In addition, he is the Director of Cellular Therapy of the UPMC Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Center.
Dr. Donnenberg received his BA from the University of Colorado – Boulder and his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he studied infectious disease epidemiology. Dr. Donnenberg spent many years at Johns Hopkins where he became an Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases before he came to the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Donnenberg's research focuses include:
- Use of adipose derived stromal cells in wound healing and regenerative therapy
- Cancer stem cells and the epithelial to mesenchymal transition
- Identification of therapeutic targets on cancer stem cells
- The immune environment of metastatic epithelial cancers
- Technological advances in flow cytometry
- Technological advances in cellular therapy