Leadership and Faculty
Meet the Development, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Graduate Program Faculty
Our faculty are not only teachers but also scholars that bring the latest advances forward. They are deeply committed to training the next generation of researchers, educators, and advocates.
Research Interests
Fanconi anemia; breast cancer susceptibility; genetic variants; genome instability; DNA damage responses; replication stress; relationship of DNA...
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Allergic diseases; the mechanisms by which protease–protease inhibitor imbalance promotes barrier breaches and loss of immunologic tolerance in...
Yuriy Baglaenko, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Immunology: understanding dynamic gene regulation in B and T cells; genetics: defining causal variation in autoimmune disorders; genomics: expanding...
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Epigenetics; epigenomics; immunology; T cell memory
Amélie Collins, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Developmental hematopoiesis; hematopoietic stem cells; immunology; maternal-fetal crosstalk
Marie-Dominique Filippi, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Acute myelogenous leukemia; T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; severe congenital neutropenia; hematopoiesis; myelopoiesis; lineage decision;...
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Systems immunology; vaccinology; microbiome-immune system interaction
Gurjit "Neeru" Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Molecular factors that control the decision between tolerance and immunity within T lymphocytes; staphylococcal enterotoxins, recombinant vaccinia...
Courtney L. Jones, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Acute myeloid leukemia; leukemia stem cells; cancer metabolism
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Genetics; bio-informatics
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Genetic basis of lupus; genetic basis of eosinophilic esophagitis; immunological mechanisms mediating genetic association with disease
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Pathogenesis of vascular anomalies; vascular malformations; kaposiform lymphangiomatosis; capillary lymphatic venous malformations; pulmonary...
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Neoplastic stem cells; malignant glioma; pediatric brain tumors such as medulloblastoma, ependymoma, and diffuse midline gliomas (DMG / DIPG); tumor...
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Bone marrow; hematopoiesis; imaging; immunology
Alexander G. Miethke, MD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Immune mediated liver injury, specifically the role of regulatory T cells in biliary atresia and primary sclerosing cholangitis; genetic basis for...
Emily R. Miraldi, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Systems biology; computational immunology; immuno-engineering; network inference
Takahisa Nakamura, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Chandrashekhar Pasare, DVM, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Innate immunity; toll-like receptor signaling; dendritic cell biology; innate control of adaptive immunity; regulation of inflammation
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Genetic mutations in tumor suppressor genes; development and tumorigenesis of the nervous system; peripheral NF1, NF2
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Eosinophils; chemokines
Nathan Salomonis, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Bioinformatics; genomics; cancer genomics; single-cell RNA-Seq analysis; alternative splicing; pathway analysis; pathway visualization; pathway...
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Liver cancer; tumor initiation; cell-cell communication; hepatic progenitor cells
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Alveolar macrophage function; molecular techniques using gene knockout, transgenic and conditional gene expression mouse models and non-human...
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Disease; gene regulation; immunology; innate immunity; macrophages; myeloid cells
Stephen N. Waggoner, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Viral immunology; natural killer cells; immunoregulation; vaccines; autoimmunity; immune dysfunction in aging.
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Understanding the development of the pancreas, and gastrointestinal organs; generating 3-dimensional human tissues from pluripotent stem cells and...
Research Interests
Lung development
Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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