Research interests of faculty with primary appointments in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Red blood cell differentiation

3D models of human brain tissue from stem cells

Mechanisms for human eye regeneration

Regulation of Neural stem cells

Lung organoids to study the mechanisms of lung injury repair

Chess Laboratory

Regulating gene expression mechanisms

Stem cells to model heart development and disease.

Epigenetic regulators in stem cell control.

Blood, stem cells, blood disorders and metabolism.

Lung epithelial regeneration

Adhesion and signaling in development.

Epithelial morphogenesis and regeneration.

Development, regeneration, and stem cells of epithelial tissues

Wnt-Frizzled signaling and cell polarity.

Genetics of fertility

Stem cell niche formation.

Target discovery in cancer.

Cell polarity and signaling.

hPSC-derived hematopoiesis

Decoding the circuitry of inflammation in the human brain

Mammalian fertilization

Epithelial cell fate choice in cancer and development

Pluripotency, cellular diversity, and multicellularity