Skip to main content

Affiliated Faculty

This list of affiliated investigators can help you identify potential research mentors at the University of Pittsburgh. PSTP students can, and do, work with mentors not on this list, but the investigators featured below have expressed interest in hosting PSTP students in their laboratories.

photo
Stephen Badylak, MD, PhD, DVM
Research Areas: Bioengineering
Research Summary:

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, emphasis upon clinical application; Cell:biomaterial interactions; Epimorphic regeneration in mammals

Bakkenist
Christopher Bakkenist, PhD
Research Areas: Cancer, Pharmacology
Research Summary:

Identify phosphorylations, dephosphorylations and acetylations that regulate ATM activity in vivo

Batista
Aaron Batista, PhD
Research Areas: Bioengineering, Neuroscience
Research Summary:

Neurophysiology of sensory-motor coordination, brain-machine interfaces

Becker
Jason Becker, MD
Research Areas: Cardiovascular
Research Summary:

Investigation of the molecular mechanisms that regulate the pathogenesis of genetic and acquired cardiomyopathies

Photo
Timothy Billiar, Md
Research Areas: Surgery
Research Summary:

The Billiar Lab focuses on the immune responses to acute systemic stresses of major clinical relevance including trauma and surgical sepsis

Binder
Robert Binder, PhD
Research Areas: Cancer
Research Summary:

The mechanisms of cross-priming of antigens during immune responses to cancer, viruses and autoimmunity

Borghesi
Lisa Borghesi , PhD
Research Summary:

Demand adapted hematopoiesis in infection and inflammation

Brodsky
Jeffrey Brodsky, PhD
Research Areas: Structural Biology
Research Summary:

Protein “quality control”, diseases associated with misfolded proteins, and drug treatments for these diseases

Buckanovich
Ronald Buckanovich, MD,PhD
Research Areas: Cancer, Women's Health
Research Summary:

Tumor microenvironment, Cancer stem cells, novel therapeutics for cancer

Burns
Timothy F. Burns, MD,PhD
Research Areas: Cancer, Pharmacology
Research Summary:

Development of targeted therapies for KRAS mutant NSCLC; Reactivation of OIS and apoptosis; Mechanisms of acquired resistance to targeted agents

Byersdorfer
Craig Byersdorfer, MD,PhD
Research Areas: Pediatrics
Research Summary:

The Byersdorfer lab seeks a deeper understanding of In vivo T cell metabolism, in order to develop therapies that separate pathologic effects from physiologic and beneficial responses following allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation.

Byrne
Leah Byrne, PhD
Research Areas: Genetics, Ophthalmology
Research Summary:

Gene therapy, viral vector engineering, genome editing, inherited retinal degeneration, genetics of eye disease