Faculty

All of the faculty associated with the DSCB graduate program are listed below. Click on a faculty name to view a detailed description of an individual research program, contact information, recent publications and links to other relevant websites.
 

Dan Wagner, PhD

Assist Professor In Residence
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
Research Summary: 
We interrogate the genetic underpinnings of vertebrate development in health and disease, using the zebrafish embryo as a model. We use a combination of in vivo imaging, single-cell transcriptomics/bioinformatics, and CRISPR genetics.

Bruce Wang, MD

Assistant Prof In Residence
Medicine
Research Summary: 
We study how the different cell types in the liver, in particular the hepatocyte, are generated during development, patterned and maintained during adulthood, and regenerate after injury.

Rong Wang, PhD

Professor
Department of Surgery
Research Summary: 
Molecular Regulation of Arterial-Venous Programming in Development and Disease

Trent Watkins, PhD

Asst Professor in Residence
Neurology
Research Summary: 
The Watkins Lab studies axonal stress signaling to understand how transcriptional programs determine neuronal fate in injury and disease, from driving neurodegeneration to enabling axon regeneration

Valerie Weaver, PhD

Director, Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
Co-Director, Stanford/UCSF/Berkeley Physical Sciences and Oncology Program
Member, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Member, Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Professor
Department of Surgery
Department of Anatomy
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Research Summary: 
Forcing tissue morphogenesis and malignancy

Orion Weiner, PhD

Professor
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Research Summary: 
Cell Polarity During Leukocyte Chemotaxis

William A. Weiss, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Neurology
Research Summary: 
Mouse models and developmental therapeutics for neural cancers, particularly pediatric cancers

Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD

Professor
Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Department of Surgery
Research Summary: 
Mechanisms of Liver Regeneration and Cancer

Helen Willsey, PhD

Asst Professor in Residence
Psychiatry
Research Summary: 
We use Xenopus tropicalis, diploid frogs, as a high-throughput platform for genetic analysis to identify convergent biology underlying psychiatric disorder risk genes

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