Faculty & Research Interests

Kristin Artinger: Neural crest progenitor stem cell development in zebrafish.
Vivek Balasubramaniam: The role of local and bone marrow derived progenitor cells during lung development and in the repair of the neonatal lung after injury.
Shideng Bao: The role of cancer stem cells in glioma progression and therapeutic resistance, and molecular targeting of cancer stem cells to improve treatments for glioma and other brain tumors.
Neil Box: Human Pigmentation, Melanoma, Stem Cells, Mouse Genetics, Cancer, p53, Mouse Embryonic Development.
Ellen Burnham: The role of endothelial progenitors in critical illnesses, specifically acute lung injury and sepsis.
James DeGregori: We study how competitive dynamics in stem and progenitor cell compartments influence whether initiating oncogenic events lead to clonal expansion and cancer.
Brian Freed: The University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank is one of the oldest public banks in the country and has facilitated >400 hematopoietic stem cell transplants in 20 countries.
Curt Freed: The goal of my laboratory is to convert human embryonic stem cells to dopamine neurons for implantation into patients with Parkinson's disease.
Chris Hogan: My interests are in the self-renewal and developmental potential of various stem cell populations found in umbilical cord blood.
William Janssen: I am interested in endothelial progenitor cell function in lung disease, including COPD and ARDS.
Peter J. Koch: The role of cell adhesion molecules in normal development and diseases.
Maranke Koster: Transcriptional control of epidermal morphogenesis.
Dwight Klemm: My laboratory is interested in the contribution of bone marrow-derived stem cells to the adipocyte population of the major adipose depots.
Carlin Long: Our lab is interested in determining the importance of an open artery in cardiac regeneration as a function of how this effects the extent of bone marrow-derived stem cell (BMSC) integration into injured myocardium and cardiac function following BMSC mobilization. An additional interest is determining the factor(s) that are present in the post-infarct heart responsible for BMSC homing as well as the cell-specific source of these substances.
Susan Majka: The role for resident lung stem cells in pulmonary vascular tissue homeostasis and remodeling.
Lee Niswander: Genetic mechanisms of neural progenitor fate and lung development.
Bradley Olwin: Regeneration of skeletal muscle by a self-renewing resident stem cell.
Yosef Refaeli: The role of MYC in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal, proliferation, differentiation and survival.
Susan Reynolds: Roles for wnt/b-catenin signaling in cell fate determination within the tracheobronchial and bronchiolar stem cell hierarchies.
Dennis Roop: Understanding the role of epithelial stem cells in acquired and inherited diseases and developing corrective stem cell therapies.
Kurt Stenmark: The role of bone marrow derived mesenchymal precursor cells in hypoxia-induced hypertension and remodeling.
Trevor Williams: Our laboratory is interested in the transcription factors and signaling molecules that program cells in the early embryo to adopt either a trophoblast or embryonal cell fate – we are especially focused on the role of the transcription factor AP-2 gamma in this early stem cell fate decision.