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.
Endocytic pathways and stretch-regulated endocytosis/exocytosis in bladder
Gene therapy, viral vector engineering, genome editing, inherited retinal degeneration, genetics of eye disease
The Ghazi lab studies molecular genetics of aging and longevity, especially genes that link lifespan with healthspan and reproductive fitness.
Exome and genome sequencing in newborns and genome sequencing in the Western Pennsylvania Amish and Mennonite communities
Genetics of congenital heart disease, role of epigenetics in adverse clinical outcome, disease modeling using patient derived induced pluripotent stem cells
Genetics of schizophrenia/bipolar disorder; functional genomics using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) based models; gene/environment interactions
Molecular mechanisms underlying various neurological disorders using human genetic approaches as well as research on animal and cell culture models
Molecular mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Understanding how endothelial cells integrate molecular and biomechanical signals to determine cell behavior during vascular development and disease
Non-receptor protein-tyrosine kinase structure, regulation and signal transduction in cancer, AIDS, and embryonic stem cell biology
Structure/function relationship in the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases (ACDs)
Regulation of mammalian sperm
Pathways that control the maintenance of genome integrity across generations using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans