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.
 

Daniel Lim, MD, PhD

Professor in Residence
Department of Neurosurgery
Research Summary: 
Chromatin regulators and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in neural development and disease

Dengke Ma, PhD

Assistant Professor
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Department of Physiology
Research Summary: 
Genetic analysis of extreme physiology and stem cell biology

Tippi MacKenzie, MD

Professor
Department of Surgery
Research Summary: 
Stem cell transplantation, maternal-fetal tolerance, and fetal molecular therapies

Emin Maltepe, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Research Summary: 
The Regulation of Cell Fate by Oxygen and Mitochondria

Ralph Marcucio, PhD

Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Research Summary: 
Craniofacial development, evolutionary biology, trauma, bone repair, angiogenesis

Wallace Marshall, PhD

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Summary: 
Developmental biology of single cells

Aras Mattis, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Research Summary: 
Regulation of hepatic development, metabolism, and paths towards cancer.

Takashi Mikawa, PhD

Professor
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Research Summary: 
Developmental Regulation of Organogenesis

Keith Mostov, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Anatomy
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
PIBS Cell Biology
MPHD Program
Research Summary: 
How the most common organs, epithelial tubes, are formed and regenerated.

Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD

Associate Professor
Neurological Surgery
Research Summary: 
Developmental origins of cellular diversity in the nervous system. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cortical development.

Todd Nystul, PhD

Co-Director, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy
Research Summary: 
Epithelial stem cells and cancer

Michael Oldham, PhD

Assoc Professor in Residence
Department of Neurological Surgery
Research Summary: 
We develop and apply novel experimental and computational strategies for studying the cellular and molecular organization of the developing and adult human brain in health and disease

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