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.
Dr. Hadjipanayis and the Brain Tumor Nanotechnology Laboratory he directs focuses on translational research approaches for more effective treatment of malignant brain tumors that involve preclinical studies, imaging, rodent/larger animal brain tumor models, and actual human clinical trials.
Understand the causes of diseases with disruptions between immune system and the microbiota, such as Crohn’s Disease and Environmental Enteropathy
Oxidative mechanisms associated with neurodegeneration
Dr. Nadine Hempel's research interests center on understanding molecular mechanisms that regulate metastasis and tumor recurrence of ovarian cancer, with the ultimate goal of identifying novel targets for therapy of advanced-stage disease.
We are interested in using the tools of structural biology to a) uncover the molecular adaptations that proteins of a highly diversified signaling TGF-beta signaling family have acquired to achieve their unique functions and b) leverage this knowledge to to develop targeted therapies for treating human disease, including soft tissue cancers and tissue fibrosis driven by dysregulated TGF-beta signaling and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia caused by mutations in the receptors and co-receptors for BMP9 and BMP10.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing public health burden that results in significant morbidity and increased risk of mortality for individual patients