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.
Molecular Regulation of Genomic Imprinting in Gametes and Early Embryos
Vascular pathways involved in cerebral vascular dysregulation and therapeutic strategies that improve neurological outcome after pediatric asphyxial cardiac arrest
Tissue engineering (peripheral nerve and soft tissue), wound healing, and adipose stem cell therapies
Understanding how cytokines and proteases controlling normal liver growth become deviant, leading to the development of cirrhosis and liver cancer
We are interested in the molecular mechanisms of psychiatric disorders with a particular focus on the role of the circadian clock in these disorders.
Investigates how pregnancy modulates innate immunity and defines relevancy to infectious pathogenesis
Mechanisms of HIV-1 persistence at the single cell level and evaluating strategies to cure HIV-1 infection, including latency reversing agents, monoclonal antibodies, cellular immunotherapy and therapeutic vaccines
Focuses on mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the neuromuscular system in both normal and disease conditions
Human immunology: Innate and adaptive immune responses to latent viruses and to allo-antigens after organ transplantation
Liver regeneration and carcinogenesis, exploring the effects of growth factors and associated signaling pathways
Use of novel regenerative materials in repair of pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence
Aimed at elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of liver pathophysiology
Autoimmunity & the control of T cell immune responses; Systems biology approaches to immune response to infectious organisms
The role of donor- and recipient-derived antigen-presenting cells (i.e. dendritic cells) and extracellular vesicles (i.e. exosomes, microvesicles) during allo-sensitization, graft rejection, and induction of donor-specific immunosuppression / tolerance, following transplantation
HIV-associated lung disease; HIV-associated emphysema; Role of Pneumocystis in COPD
Research interests include knee and shoulder biomechanics, specifically rotator cuff tears
GH, insulin-like growth factors and a novel mitochondria-associated peptide on glucose homeostasis, energy metabolism, cardiovascular health and aging