Certain genetic disorders cause widespread disease in the body, but the principle reason for illness and death in early childhood is failure of the blood system. We would like to study these genetic blood disorders by “turning back the clock” – using new technology in stem cell biology to take skin cells from patients with genetic blood disorders and return them to an embryonic-like state, wherein they regain the ability to form any type of cell in the body.... Read more about Suneet Agarwal, MD, PhD
Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Programming, Reprogramming and Modeling of the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex
The execution of critical behaviors like movement, emotion, and intelligence relies on the orchestrated integration into functional circuits of an outstanding diversity of neuronal subtypes. Focusing on excitatory pyramidal neurons of the mammalian cerebral cortex, our work aims to understand the... Read more about Paola Arlotta, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Armstrong laboratory is focused on the mechanisms of cancer development with a focus on leukemia. One major interest in the lab is the relationship between leukemia, normal hematopoietic stem cells and the various hematopoietic cells of origin of leukemia. The lab is also studying the role of histone modifications and chromosome ... Read more about Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School
Our laboratory studies the genetic determinants of blood cell ontogeny and disease. We use molecular genetic, biochemical, and genome editing methodologies...
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School
Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) progeny can represent a vehicle for therapeutic molecule delivery to the Central Nervous System (CNS) upon transplantation in...
Joslin Diabetes Center Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics
Using the model organism C. elegans, we study how regulatory pathways that are important in growth control influence stress defenses and aging, as well as relationships between stem cell function and aging.... Read more about Keith Blackwell, MD, PhD
With a series of rodent models Dr. Bonner-Weir has provided compelling evidence that adult pancreatic beta-cell mass increases in response to a metabolic need and have been examining the mechanisms of this postnatal pancreatic growth.... Read more about Susan Bonner-Weir, PhD
Dr. Bonventre is Chief of the Renal Unit and Director of the Bioengineering Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and has had a long-standing interest in various aspects of cellular injury and repair mechanisms in the kidney with a special emphasis on the role of inflammation, biomarkers and stem cells.... Read more about Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, PhD
Dr. David Breault's research has exploited the fact the mouse telomerase (mTert) is a biomarker for embryonic and tissue stem cells. He has developed a streamlined technique for isolating and characterizing adult stem cells from a variety of tissues using genetically engineered reporter mice.... Read more about David Breault, MD, PhD
Alan Cantor's laboratory is focused on further elucidating the transcriptional mechanisms that regulate normal hematopoiesis and how they may be perturbed in certain inherited platelet disorders and hematologic malignancies.... Read more about Alan Cantor, MD, PhD
We are interested in the mechanisms that direct development and degeneration of the central nervous system (CNS) of vertebrates. We are focusing our studies...
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Elliot L. Chaikof, MD, PhD, has promoted alliances of clinicians, engineers, chemists, and biologists and in the process developed biologically-inspired materials, devices, and pharmacotherapeutics based upon the principles of molecular engineering and nanofabrication technologies. These endeavors have enabled advances in cell-based therapies, artificial organs, and engineered living tissues, which define the evolving field of Regenerative Medicine.... Read more about Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD
Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Department of Physics
Adam Cohen's research focuses on developing and applying new physical tools to probe molecules and cells, with project ranging from quantum mechanics to pure biology.... Read more about Adam E. Cohen, PhD
