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Principal Investigators 

Peter Brooks , Ph.D.
contact: brookp1@mmc.org
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Robert Friesel, Ph.D. (Director)
contact: friesr@mmc.org
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  • Normal and abnormal signal transduction during bone growth and development
  • Identification of novel antagonists of FGF signaling

Lucy Liaw, Ph.D.
contact: liawl@mmc.org
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  • Murine transgenic approaches to study vascular remodeling
  • Tumor growth and blood vessel recruitment

Volkhard Lindner, M.D., Ph.D.
contact: lindnv@mmc.org
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  • The biology of high molecular weight FGF-2 complexes
  • Characterization of novel genes expressed in the vessel wall

Leif Oxburgh, DVM, PhD
contact: oxburl@mmc.org
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  • Identification and characterization of the undifferentiated precursor cells that give rise to the nephron within the developing kidney
  • Signals and genetic programs regulating the differentiation of nephron precursor

Ilka Pinz , Ph.D.
contact: pinzi@mmc.org
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  • Mechanisms leading to the development of cardiomyopathy in dyslipidemia

Igor Prudovsky , Ph.D.
contact: prudoi@mmc.org
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  • The Role of FGF and Jagged in the regulation of angiogenesis
  • Novel mechanisms of protein trafficking

Douglas Spicer, Ph.D.
contact: spiced@mmc.org
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  • Regulation of growth and differentiation of muscle, bone, and endothelial cells
  • Transcriptional regulation of mesenchyme formation from the cranial neural crest

Calvin Vary, Ph.D.
contact: varyc@mmc.org
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  • Mechanisms of heretible vascular disease; roles of endoglin and ALK1 in the vasculature
  • TGF-beta receptor signaling mechanisms in vascular and bone physiology

Joseph Verdi, Ph.D.
contact: verdij@mmc.org
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  • Determining the molecular mechanisms underlying self renewal and lineage specification of multipotential stem cellsExamining the clonal transdifferentiaiton of neural precursors into hematpoietic and myogenic lineagesStudying the ontogeny of NKT cells a s a potential cure for type I diabetes
  • Evaluating stem cell cellular transplantation to abrogate seizure activity in development

Zack Wang, Ph.D.
contact: wangz@mmc.org
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  • Hematopoietic and endothelial differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells
  • The molecular mechanisms that control fate determination of vasculogenesis and hematopoiesis

Don Wojchowski, Ph.D.
contact: wojchd@mmc.org
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  • Cytokine receptor and transcription factor regulation of hematopoiesis, especially erythropoiesis
Wen-Shu Wu, Ph.D.
contact: wuw@mmc.org
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Jeong Yoon, Ph.D.
contact: yoonje@mmc.org
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  • Molecular mechanisms of cell fate determination, differentiation and morphogenesis during vertebrate development


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