Faculty
Ai Lab, Pulmonary Center, Department of Medicine
Albrecht Lab, Genetics, Department of Medicine
Basic science focus: sex determination, gonad differentiation, cell fate determination, organogenesis
Clinical relevance: ovarian cancer, infertility, premature ovarian insufficiency, birth defects
Cardoso Lab, Pulmonary Center, Department of Medicine
Cohen Lab, Nephrology, Department of Medicine
Cotanche Lab, Department of Otolarangology
Dominguez Lab, Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine
Basic science focus: heart morphogenesis, organogenesis, WNT signaling, dorsal axis formation, cell fate determination
Clinical relevance: congenital heart disease, breast and colon cancer
Gerstenfeld Lab, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Hsu Lab, Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine
Basic science focus: epithelial morphogenesis, intracellular trafficking of proteins and nucleic acids, cell-stromal interaction
Clinical relevance: tumor formation
Kotton Lab, Pulmonary Center, Department of Medicine
Basic science focus: stem cell biology, reprogramming, lung epithelial lineage specification
Clinical relevance: acute lung injury/ARDS, emphysema, regenerative medicine
Kukuruzinska Lab, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
J. Lu Lab, Pulmonary Center, Department of Medicine
W. Lu Lab, Nephrology, Department of Medicine
Basic science focus: kidney and urinary tract development, Slit-Robo signaling pathway, mouse models of renal genetic disorders
Clinical relevance: congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT), vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), human kidney gene mutations
Mostoslavsky Lab, Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine
Navarro Lab, Genetics, Department of Medicine
Basic science focus: cell polarity, molecular motor transport, cell fate determination, piRNAs
Clinical relevance: epithelial cancer, birth defects, neurodegenerative diseases
Ramirez Lab, Pulmonary Center, Department of Medicine
Seldin Lab, Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine
Symes Lab, Department of Biochemistry
Basic science focus: cell motility, gastrulation, notochord morphogenesis, platelet-derived growth factor signaling
Clinical relevance: cancer metastasis, skeletal birth defects
