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.
Roles of signal transduction pathways, transcription factors, and chromatin epigenetics in pathological changes in osteoclasts and osteoblasts in cancer-induced bone disease and Paget’s disease of bone
Our work in cardio-oncology aims to understand how cancer therapies affect cardiovascular function in a sex-specific manner.
The Ghazi lab studies molecular genetics of aging and longevity, especially genes that link lifespan with healthspan and reproductive fitness.
Our lab studies what human brain networks are doing using long-timescale recordings during real world behavior, as well as how our brains process social information during natural conversations.
Exome and genome sequencing in newborns and genome sequencing in the Western Pennsylvania Amish and Mennonite communities
Adult and pediatric epilepsy surgery; movement disorder surgery; neuro-oncology; general neurosurgery
Digital Twinning for Health Forecasting, Agentic AI for Precision Medicine, and Computational Learning Inference and Modeling of Biotechnology (CLIMB)
My laboratory is working to understand mechanisms controlling healthy versus pathological innate immune function, with major projects including interrogating lung-specific macrophage signaling and dissecting molecular determinants of monocyte and macrophage inflammatory function during lung infection.
Neurophysiology of basal ganglia system related to psychiatric disorders
My work focuses on understanding both normal and abnormal adolescent dendritic development using preclinical models, focusing on how excitatory dendritic arbors stabilize across adolescence and what the functional implications are of impairments in these processes.
The Gurkar lab is interested in understanding the causal molecular players in cellular senescence and aging.