Biomedical Research Technologies MS Program
Leadership & Students

Meet the Biomedical Research Technologies MS Program Faculty

Director

Research Interests
Lung organoids; lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis; bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD);...

Executive Committee

Research Interests
Craniofacial development 

Jason Tchieu, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Autism spectrum disorders; neurodevelopmental disorders; human pluripotent stem cells; directed differentiation; astrocytes; oligodendrocytes;...

Teaching Faculty

Yueh-Chiang Hu, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
CRISPR; transgenic mice; gene editing; reproduction; germ cells
Research Interests
Pluripotent stem cell biology; disease modeling with human iPSCs; hPSC-derived organoids

Michael W. Pauciulo, MBA

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Biobanking; biorepository projects; pulmonary arterial hypertension

Andrew Potter, MS

Bioinformatician, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Xiaofei Sun, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Female reproductive biology; endocannabinoid signaling in reproduction
Research Interests
Evaluating targets for the treatment of rheumatic disease; angiogenesis; animal models of arthritis

Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Student Profiles

The students in the Biomedical Research Master's Program at Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati are a diverse group. Our students have a variety of educational backgrounds and come from many different places. To give you a feel for the students involved in the program, and the kinds of research they are working on, our current students have agreed to highlight their backgrounds and research interests.