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Welcome to Developmental Biology
The Section of Developmental Biology provides insight into the underlying causes of human birth defects and diseases through basic scientific research.
Lee Niswander, PhD, moved from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City to head the new Section in 2004. Along with Dr. Lee Niswander, the Section includes the research groups of Bruce Appel, PhD, and Lori Sussel, PhD. Dr. Appel moved from Vanderbilt University in 2008, and he is the recipient of the newly endowed Dianne G. Wallach Chair in Pediatric Stem Cell Biology.
The current emphasis is on understanding the normal developmental processes that regulate the formation of the pancreas, limb, lung, and the spinal cord and brain. Moreover, these researchers are creating mouse and zebrafish models of genetic defects to determine why these developmental processes go awry in children born with birth defects (such as spina bifida) or who later develop diabetes.
The Children's Hospital Research Institute
and the Gates Frontier Fund have helped to launch and establish the Section of Developmental Biology.
Contact Information
Please direct your questions or requests for additional
information about the Section of Developmental Biology to:
Claire Tsai
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Colorado Denver
Section of Developmental Biology
Laboratory Manager, Lee Niswander Lab
Mailstop 8133, Bldg. RC1 South, Room L18-12105
12801 E. 17th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
Tel: 303-724-3791
E-mail: Claire.Tsai@ucdenver.edu
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