Principal Faculty

The Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories focus on Developmental Biology, some areas of which hold promise for clinical application to benefit both pediatric and adult patients.

Patricia Donahoe, M.D., David MacLaughlin, Ph.D., and Jose Teixeira, Ph.D...

Adam Cohen's research focuses on understanding and controlling light - matter interactions in warm, wet, squishy environments. His lab discovered that a gene from a Dead Sea microorganism, when transferred to human neurons, converted the electrical

Research Description

We seek to elucidate mechanisms of disease and develop novel therapeutics through understanding underlying processes of innate and adaptive immunity that cause disease or are responsible for organ repair and regeneration. The major...

The Cepko lab investigates why photoreceptor cells die in the many forms of retinal degeneration, and seeks to develop a gene therapy that prevents their death and the subsequent loss of vision.

The mechanisms that cells use when they choose their fate...

Alan Cantor aims to understand the gene regulatory mechanisms involved in normal blood cell development, and to understand how their dysregulation leads to human blood disorders.

The Cantor lab is focused on further elucidating the transcriptional...

The Camargo laboratory focuses on the study of adult stem cell biology, organ size regulation, and cancer.

Despite fantastic progress in developmental biology research over the past decade, one aspect of development and tissue homeostasis for which very...

Research in the Burns Lab focuses on cardiovascular development and regeneration.

Cardiovascular diseases represent the number one cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, affecting a broad spectrum of ages from babies that are born with congenital...

David Breault's research has exploited the fact the mouse telomerase (mTert) is a biomarker for embryonic and tissue stem cells. He has developed a streamlined technique for isolating and characterizing adult stem cells from a variety of tissues using...

The Bonventre lab studies renal cell carcinoma, focusing on the functional role of the protein 'Kidney injury molecule-1' as well as its role as a urinary biomarker for renal cell carcinoma and renal epithelial cell injury.

Joseph Bonventre has had a...

Susan Bonner-Weir investigates how the pancreatic beta cell changes with age and in response to challenges.

With a series of rodent models, Dr. Bonner-Weir has provided compelling evidence that adult pancreatic beta-cell mass increases in response to a...