The team of McEwen Investigators includes world-leading experts in stem cells and regenerative medicine research. Learn more by clicking each Investigator’s name, below.
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Repair & Regeneration |
Origins & Models of Disease |
New Tools for Discovery |
Related Research Areas |
John E. Dick
Cancer stem cells |
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Cancer stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells, leukemia, NOD/SCID mouse |
Michael G. Fehlings
Spinal cord injury and repair |
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Imaging, regeneration, electrophysiology, molecular biology, stem cells, neurotrauma, spinal cord injury, neuroprotection, apoptosis |
Mansoor Husain
Cardiovascular repair |
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Vascular smooth muscle cell biology, vasomotor physiology, transgenic mouse models of cardiovascular disease |
Norman N. Iscove
Blood-forming stem cells |
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Self-renewal, microarrays, leukemia, hematopoietic stem cells, gene expression, FACS purification |
Gordon M. Keller
Embryonic stem cell differentiation |
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Embryonic stem cells, hemangioblast, lineage-specific differentiation, mesoderm, endoderm |
Shaf Keshavjee
Lung transplantation and immune tolerance |
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Lung transplantation, lung injury, lung preservation, ischemia reperfusion injury, gene therapy, IL-10 |
Ren-Ke Li
Cell transplantation to restore cardiac function |
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Heart failure, myocardial infarction, cell transplantation, stem cell differentiation, cell and gene therapy, angiogenesis, extracellular matrix, tissue engineering |
Freda Miller
Stem cell differentiation and neurobiology |
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Neural development, neural stem cells, skin-derived stem cells, apoptosis, neurogenesis, gliogenesis |
Andras Nagy
Embryonic stem cells |
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Embryonic stem cells, genetic engineering, mammalian embryonic development , tissue engineering, imprinting, vasculogenesis |
Molly Shoichet
Spinal cord repair strategies |
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Tissue engineering, drug delivery, polymer synthesis, hydrogels, nanoparticles, fluoropolymers, spinal cord injury, cancer, peripheral nerve repair |
Derek van der Kooy
Stem cell differentiation and neurobiology |
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Neurobiology, brain development, stem cell biology, addiction, motivation, learning, memory |
Rüdiger von Harsdorf
Cardiac repair and regeneration |
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Cardiac regenerative medicine, cardiomyocyte cell cycle, apoptosis, cardiomyocyte hypertrophic growth |
Thomas K. Waddell
Lung transplantation and immune tolerance |
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Regeneration, chemokines, xenotransplantation, lung rejection, adhesion molecules, selectins, leukocyte-endothelial interaction |
Richard D. Weisel
Cell transplantation to restore cardiac function |
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Stem cells, cardiac regeneration, angiogenesis and myocardial protection |
Peter Zandstra
Stem cell processing and differentiation |
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Embryonic stem cell differentiation, hematopoietic stem cells, intercellular signaling, bioreactors, stem cell culture technologies |
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