Stem Cell & Progenitor Cell Research

Priyanka Sivakami Narayan

Research TopicsNeurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease are a growing public health concern. The extended and devastating course of these diseases, t…

Peter R. Rapp

Research TopicsModels of Neurocognitive Aging: Age-related deficits in cognitive function compromise the quality of life and are among the most troubling conseq…

Pedro P. Rocha

Research TopicsPacking two meters of DNA inside ten-micron nuclei leads to a very crowded environment. This is an extraordinary feat of compaction and organizat…

Pamela Robey

Research TopicsDr. Pamela Robey focuses on four main areas in skeletal cell biology: 1) determination of the characteristics and the biological properties of po…

Nigel H. Greig

Research TopicsThe Drug Design and Development Section (DDDS) is focused to identify drugs that improve brain function and/or forestall the neurodegenerative pr…

Neal Young

Research TopicsResearch in the Cell Biology Section spans the basic sciences, clinical trials, and epidemiology. Bench work involves methods of cell and molecul…

Mitchell J. Machiela

Research TopicsDr. Mitchell Machiela’s research is focused on understanding how inherited (germline) variation and acquired (somatic) mutations individually and…

Michael J. Ombrello

Research TopicsAutoinflammatory diseases are caused by inappropriate or excessive activation of innate immune pathways. When unchecked, this excessive inflammat…

Michael W. Krause

Research TopicsA goal of our research is to describe the formation of an organism after fertilization as a series of switches that regulate gene expression in e…

Matthew W. Kelley

Research TopicsThe overall goals of the Developmental Neuroscience Section are to identify the molecular and cellular factors that play a role in the developmen…