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Faculty & Staff

Name	Affiliation	Title	Membership	MSCRF Award	Topic(s)
Gorgun Akpek, MD	SOM Dept. of Medicine	Associate Professor	Associate	n/a	n/a
Sergei Atamas, MD, PhD	SOM Dept. of Medicine	Associate Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Bone and Tendon Healing Mechanisms of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Hematopoetic Progenitors Derived from Human Adult Bone Marrow
Laure Aurelian, PhD	SOM Dept. of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics	Professor	Founding	Investigator Initiated	Stem cell transplantation is associated with HSV-induced severe skin eruptions
Alexey Belkin, PhD	SOM Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Assistant Professor	Founding	Exploratory	The role of transglutaminase in adhesion-dependent and growth factor-mediated pluripotent human stem cells
Angela Brodie, PhD	SOM Dept. of Pharmacology/ Experimental Therapeutics	Professor	Full	n/a	n/a
Richard Eckert, PhD	SOM Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Professor & Department Chair	Founding	Investigator Initiated	Epidermis-Derived Multipotent Cells for Cell Therapy
Shengyun Fang, PhD	UMBI, SOM Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Ubiquitination-Dependent Regulation of Oct-4 Activity
Ian Farrance, PhD	SOM Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Assistant Professor
Alessio Fasano, MD	SOM Dept. of Pediatrics	Professor
Ricardo Feldman, PhD	SOM Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology	Associate Professor	Founding	Exploratory/ Investigator Initiated	Generation of Gaucher's-specific Human Embryonic Stem Cells; Generation of Patient-Specific iPS cells for modeling and treating Gaucher disease
John Fisher, PhD	UMCP Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Associate Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Craniofacial Bone Regeneration
Paul Fishman, MD, PhD	SOM Dept. of Neurology	Professor	Founding	Exploratory
Nancy Fossett, PhD	SOM Dept. of Pathology, CVID	Assistant Professor	Full	n/a	n/a
Da-Wei Gong, MD, PhD	SOM Dept. of Medicine	Associate Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Novel vector systems to reprogram human adiopose stromal vascular cells into insulin-producing cells and trans-plantable adipocytes
Anne Hamburger, PhD	SOM Dept. of Pathology	Professor	Full	n/a	n/a
Adam Hsieh, PhD	UMCP Dept. of Engineering
Feng Jiang, MD, PhD	SOM Dept. of Pathology	Assistant Professor	Full	Exploratory	A MicroRNA Signature of Cancer Stem Cell as Prognostic Biomarker for Lung Cancer
Mariusz Karbowski, PhD	UMBI	Assistant Professor	Full	Exploratory	Maintenance of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission as a Critical Factor in Stem Cell Viability, Differentiation Capacity and Differentiation -induced Mitochondrial Biogenesis
Carol Keefer, PhD	UMCP Dept. of Animal & Avian Science	Associate Professor	Full/Founding	Exploratory	Mechanical Aspects Of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation Using Atomic Force Microscopy
William J. Lederer, MD, PhD	UMBI
David Litwack, PhD	SOM Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology	Assistant Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Regulation of neuronal differentiation by Nuclear Factor One transcription factors
Zhengiu Liu, PhD	SOM Dept. of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine	Assistant Professor	Full	n/a	n/a
Thomas MacVittie, PhD	SOM Dept. of Radiation Oncology	Professor
Stuart Martin, PhD	SOM Dept. of Physiology	Assistant Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Novel Therapies to Destroy Circulating Breast Tumor Stem Cells
Margaret McCarthy, PhD	SOM Dept. of Physiology, GPILS	Professor	Full	n/a	n/a
Mervyn Monteiro, PhD	UMBI	Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Role of ubiquilin in regulating proliferation and differentiation of human stem cells
Sarah Netzel-Arnett, PhD	SOM Dept. of Physiology,	Assistant Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Targeting Prosurvival Pathways for enhanced stem cell based therapy
Elizabeth Powell, PhD	SOM Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology	Assistant Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Ligand Presentation Directs Neural Stem cell Fate Decisions
Adam Puche, PhD	SOM Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology	Associate Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Regulating Stem Cell Migration in the Adult Brain
Yun Qiu, PhD	SOM Dept. of Pharmacology/ Experimental Therapeutics	Associate Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Regulation of Stemness by Phosphorylation
Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD	SOM Dept. of Medicine	Professor	Full	n/a	n/a
Terry Rogers, PhD	SOM Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Professor
David Scott, PhD	SOM Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology	Professor	Full	n/a	n/a
Koji Tamada, MD, PhD	SOM Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery	Associate Professor	n/a	n/a	n/a
Yao Tang, PhD	SOM Dept. of Medicine	Assistant Professor
Huakun Xu, PhD	SOD Dept. of Endodontics, Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry	Associate Professor	Founding	Exploratory	Stem Cell Delivery via Injectable, Nano-Apatite Scaffolds for Bone Engineering
Xuehong Xu, PhD	UMBI	Assistant Professor
Steven Zhan, PhD	SOM Dept. of Pathology	Professor	Founding	Exploratory	The role of cortactin in EMT and differentiation of human embryonic stem cells
Li Zhang, PhD	SOM Dept. of Physiology	Associate Professor	Full	n/a	n/a