Mentorship Certified
Daniel Castro, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: castro.d@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Understanding the role of endogenous opioids in affective neuroscience and metabolic homeostasis
Key words
reward, valence, opioid, motivation, metabolism, diabetes
Grant Challen, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: grantchallen@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Understanding the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate normal and leukemic stem cells
Key words
Hematopoietic stem cells, Leukemia stem cells, Epigenetic modifications
Aisling Chaney, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: achaney@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Research summary
Key words
Hong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: hongchen@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences
Cancer Biology
Research summary
Combines biology, engineering, and medicine to develop ultrasound techniques for noninvasive, targeted, and personalized brain cancer treatment
Key words
Brain, neuroscience, cancer biology, imaging, ultrasound
Shiming Chen, PhD
Dr. Bernard and Janet R. Becker Distinguished Professor
- Email: chenshiming@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Neurosciences
Research summary
Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas
Key words
Gene expression regulation, transcription factors, epigenetic regulators, photoreceptor development and degeneration, mouse models, gene therapy
Brian Clark, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: brian.s.clark@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Analysis of the temporally regulated program of retinal cell type specification.
Key words
Jonathan Cooper, PhD
Professor
- Email: cooperjd@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Disease mechanisms and treatments for inherited childhood neurodegeneration
Key words
Batten Disease, Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, NCL, Lysosomal Storage Disease, pathogenesis, pre-clinical therapies, enzyme replacement, gene therapy
Clair Crewe, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: clair.crewe@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Research summary
Understanding extracellular vesicle (EV)-mediated signaling during homeostatic and pathologic metabolic regulation
Key words
Nicholas Davidson, MD
Professor
- Email: nod@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Research summary
Mammalian gene expression: Regulation through mRNA editing and RNA stabilization
Key words
gene expression, RNA, cancer, mRNA editing, mRNA stability
Patricia Dickson, MD
Centennial Professor
- Email: pdickson@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences
Research summary
Developing therapies and studying the impact of lysosomal storage disorders in animal models and in trials
Key words