Stem Cell Center Faculty
The Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine’s ability to understand, diagnose, treat and prevent disease requires collaboration across multiple disciplines. There are more than 70 faculty scientists and physicians at University of Maryland contributing to the achievement of the Center’s goals. In addition to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the Center are affiliated with special laboratories, programs, and schools throughout the University of Maryland system.
| Name | Title | Department | Special Affiliation | Working Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergei Atamas, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Medicine; Microbiology & Immunology | Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine | Skeletal |
| Laure Aurelian, PhD | Professor | Pharmacology; Microbiology & Immunology | Neural | |
| Maria Baer, MD | Professor | Medicine | Program in Oncology | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Arnob Banerjee, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor; Working Group Leader | Medicine | Program in Oncology | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Cynthia Bearer, MD, PhD, FAAP | Professor | Pediatrics | Neural | |
| Alexey Belkin, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID); Program in Oncology | Skeletal |
| Steven Bernstein, MD, PhD | Professor | Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Anatomy & Neurobiology | Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine | Neural |
| Christopher Bever, MD, MBA | Professor | Neurology; Pharmacology; Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science | Neural | |
| Robert Bloch, PhD | Professor | Physiology | Skeletal | |
| Angela Brodie, PhD | Professor | Pharmacology | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Jonathan Bromberg, MD, PhD | Professor | Surgery; Microbiology & Immunology | Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID) | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Xiaochun Chen, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Michael Christy, MD | Assistant Professor | Surgery | Program in Trauma | Skeletal |
| Curt Civin, MD | Professor; Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine; Associate Dean for Research | Pediatrics; Physiology | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Jim Du, PhD | Associate Professor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Program in Biology of Model Systems (PBMS) | Cardiovascular |
| Richard Eckert, PhD | Professor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Dermatology; Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences | Skeletal | |
| Shengyun Fang, PhD | Associate Professor | Physiology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Center for Biomedical Engineering & Technology (BioMET); Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine | Skeletal |
| Ricardo Feldman, PhD | Associate Professor | Microbiology & Immunology | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| John Fisher, PhD | Professor | Bioengineering | Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory, A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMCP | Skeletal |
| Paul Fishman, MD, PhD | Professor | Neurology; Anatomy & Neurobiology; Pharmacology | Neural | |
| Gary Fiskum, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology | Shock, Trauma & Anesthesiology Research (STAR) | Neural |
| Nancy Fossett, PhD | Associate Professor | Pathology | Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID) | Intestinal |
| Da-Wei Gong, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Medicine | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Bartley Griffith, MD | Professor | Surgery | Artificial Organs Lab; Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID) | Cardiovascular |
| Rao Gullapalli, PhD, MBA | Associate Professor | Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine | Neural | |
| Anne Hamburger, PhD | Professor | Pathology | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| L. Elliott Hong, MD | Professor | Psychiatry | Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC); Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine | Neural |
| Adam Hsieh, PhD | Associate Professor | Bioengineering; Orthopaedics | A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMCP | Skeletal |
| Feng Jiang, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Pathology | Program in Oncology; Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Mariusz Karbowski, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Center for Biomedical Engineering & Technology (BioMet) | Skeletal |
| Sunjay Kaushal, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Surgery | Cardiovascular | |
| Carol Keefer, PhD | Associate Professor | Animal & Avian Sciences | College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, UMCP | Skeletal |
| Candace Kerr, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Neural | |
| Tami Kingsbury, PhD | Assistant Professor | Physiology | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Eugene Koh, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor | Orthopaedics | Skeletal | |
| Tibor Kristian, PhD | Associate Professor | Anesthesiology | Shock, Trauma & Anesthesiology Research (STAR) | Neural |
| Jennie Leach, PhD | Assistant Professor | Anatomy & Neurobiology | UMBC | Neural |
| William J. Lederer, MD, PhD | Professor | Physiology | Center for Biomedical Engineering & Technology (BioMet) | Cardiovascular |
| Marta Lipinski, PhD | Assistant Professor; Working Group Leader | Anesthesiology; Anatomy & Neurobiology | Shock, Trauma & Anesthesiology Research (STAR) | Neural |
| A-Lien Lu-Chang, PhD | Professor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Skeletal | |
| Stuart Martin, PhD | Associate Professor | Physiology | Program in Oncology | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Margaret McCarthy, PhD | Professor | Pharmacology; Physiology; Psychiatry | Neural | |
| Rosangela Mezghanni, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Intestinal | |
| Sandra Mooney, PhD | Associate Professor | Pediatrics | Neural | |
| Maria Nurminskaya, PhD | Associate Professor; Working Group Leader | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Skeletal | |
| Kiran Panickar, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Neural | |
| Anthony Passaniti, PhD | Associate Professor | Pathology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Cardiovascular | |
| Richard Pierson, MD | Professor; Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs | Surgery | Cardiovascular | |
| Mark Pittenger, PhD | Research Specialist | Surgery | Artificial Organs Lab | Cardiovascular |
| Elizabeth Powell, PhD | Associate Professor; Working Group Leader | Anatomy & Neurobiology; Psychiatry | Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine | Neural |
| Adam Puche, PhD | Associate Professor | Anatomy & Neurobiology | Neural | |
| Yun Qiu, PhD | Professor | Pharmacology; Pathology | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Aaron Rapoport, MD | Professor | Medicine | Program in Oncology | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Feyruz Rassool, PhD | Associate Professor | Radiology Oncology | Program in Oncology | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD | Professor | Medicine | Intestinal | |
| Terry Rogers, PhD | Professor; Working Group Leader | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Cardiovascular | |
| Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD | Professor | Surgery; Physiology | Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID) | Cardiovascular |
| Kara Scheibner, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD | Professor; Working Group Leader | Radiation Oncology; Medicine; Physiology | Intestinal | |
| Joseph Stains, PhD | Assistant Professor | Orthopaedics; Physiology | Skeletal | |
| Yao Tang, PhD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Program in Oncology | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Matthew Trudeau, PhD | Associate Professor | Physiology | Cardiovascular | |
| Sheelu Varghese, PhD | Assistant Professor | Surgery | Neural | |
| Mark Vesely, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Cardiovascular | |
| Tonya Webb, PhD | Assistant Professor | Microbiology & Immunology | Hematopoietic & Cancer | |
| Huakun Xu, PhD, MS | Professor | Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering | School of Dentistry | Skeletal |
| Paul Yarowsky, PhD | Associate Professor | Pharmacology | Neural | |
| Bruce Yu, PhD | Associate Professor | Pharmaceutical Sciences; Bioengineering | School of Pharmacy; A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMCP | Skeletal |
| Norann Zaghloul, PhD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Skeletal | |
| Michal Zalzman, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Otorhinolaryn-gology--Head & Neck Surgery | Skeletal | |
| Steven Zhan, PhD | Professor | Pathology; Pharmacology | Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID); Program in Oncology | Hematopoietic & Cancer |
| Li Zhang, PhD | Associate Professor | Physiology; Surgery | Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID) | Skeletal |