Program Faculty Members

Professional Development CATER Program Faculty Members

Member:	Research Interest:
Steve Abramowitch, PhD	Tissue mechanics
Stephen Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD	Tissue engineering, biologic scaffolds, and extracellular matrix biology
Ivet Bahar, PhD	Computational & Systems Biology
Bryan Brown, PhD	Cardiopulmonary Organ Replacement
Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD	Mechanisms of mitochondrial stress and autophagic remodeling in neurodegeneration
Xinyan Tracy Cui, PhD	Neural tissue engineering
Lance Davidson, PhD	Biomechanics
Albert Donnenberg, PhD	Cancer Stem Cells
Andrew Duncan, PhD	Genetic diversity in liver development and regeneration
Eric Lagasse, PharmD, PhD	Stem Cells, Liver Tissue Engineering
Steven R. Little, PhD	Smart Biotechnology for Immunotherapeutics and Tissue Engineering
Cecilia Lo, PhD	Cardiac development and congenital heart diseases
Kacey G. Marra, PhD	Tissue engineering using Adipose-derived Stem Cells
George Michalopoulos, MD, PhD	Liver regeneration
Satdarshan ‘Paul’ Singh Monga, MD	Liver Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration
Kari Nejak-Bowen, MBA, PhD	Liver regeneration
Kyle Orwig, PhD	Stem cells, germ lineage development, fertility and infertility
Partha Roy, PhD	Cell migration, cancer Biology, signal transduction, and angiogenesis
Warren Ruder, PhD	Synthetic biology and engineered living systems
Donghun Shin, PhD	Liver Development and Regeneration
Sanjeev Shroff, PhD	Cardiovascular mechano-energetics and structure-function relationships
Alejandro Soto-Guiterrez, MD, PhD	Organ replacement, regenerative medicine approaches
Fatima Syed-Picard, PhD	Scaffold-Free Tissue Engineering
Lans Taylor, PhD	Computational and Systems Biology
Michael Tsang, PhD	Heart development and regeneration
Jonathan Vande Geest, PhD	Ocular, vascular, and nerve biomechanics, tissue engineering, nonlinear optical microscopy, and finite element modeling
Yoram Vodovotz, PhD	Biology of acute inflammation in shock states, chronic inflammatory diseases, wound healing, malaria, and restenosis
David A. Vorp, PhD	Biomechanics and Regeneration of Tubular Tissues
William R. Wagner, PhD	Biomaterials for cardiovascular tissue engineering
Douglas Weber, PhD	Physiological mechanisms underlying sensory perception, feedback control of movement, and neuroplasticity in sensorimotor systems
Alan Wells, MD, DMS	Tissue Micro-Environment in regeneration and cancer
Cecelia Yates, PhD	Wound healing, chemokine biology, matrix biology
Dean Yimlamai, MD, PhD	Fundamental mechanisms of liver growth during development, its restoration from injury, and changes that lead to oncogenesis
Hassane Zarour, MD	Tumor immunology and cancer vaccines

Adjunct CATER Training Faculty Members:	Research Interest:
Harvey Borovetz, PhD	Bioengineering, tissue-engineering
Evan Facher, PhD, MBA	Innovation Institute
Jörg Gerlach, MD, PhD	Biohybrid liver development, bioreactor design
Wishwa N. Kapoor, MD, MPH	The Institute for Clinical Research Education
Joseph Locker, MD, PhD	Stem cell, lung and liver biology and cancer
Wendy Mars, PhD	Cellular & Molecular Pathology Graduate Program Director
Michael Oertel, PhD	Cell Therapy
Donna Beer Stolz, PhD	Center for Biologic Imaging
Rocky Tuan, PhD	Biological study of development, growth, function and health of skeletal tissue
Simon Watkins, PhD	Center for Biologic Imaging

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