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.

Improving recovery from brain injury after cardiac arrest

Understanding how memory T cells are generated in transplantation

Basic science and translational research studying the molecular mechanisms of pulmonary vascular disease and pulmonary hypertension

The study of human tumor viruses

Development, plasticity and regeneration of neural circuits

The Chen lab is interested in the pharmacological studies of visual disorders caused by protein misfolding. The lab's current three projects include pharmacological studies of rhodopsin metabolism, roles of purine metabolites in photoreceptor degeneration, and drug discovery of myocilin-associated glaucoma.

Machine learning approach for OCT biomarkers identification in age-related macular degeneration

Redox signaling & autophagy in neuroprotection and neurodegeneration; Mitochondrial phosphoproteomics; Genetic & toxin models of Parkinson’s disease

Models of muscle disease causing muscular dystrophy and muscle atrophy; Translational research for treatment of muscle disease

Big data analytics, predictive modeling, and dynamic modeling of disease

Stomal Interactions critical to the survival, growth, and spread of ovarian cancer

The intersection of neural engineering and biomaterials with specific focus on neural electrode-tissue interface, neural tissue engineering, biosensor and drug delive