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.
Our research is focused primarily on stem cell biology and cell-based therapy for a variety of diseases including cancer and organ failure
Innate and adaptive immune response to transplanted organs and the mechanisms of transplantation tolerance
Molecular profiling (genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic) of women’s cancers, mouse modeling, and predictive biomarkers for targeted therapy
Alzheimer's; Neurodegenerative diseases
Functional architecture of the prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia
Our work focuses on basic and translational research in cardiovascular biology using patient-derived iPSCs, organoids, transgenic mice, and single-cell omics.
The Li Lab investigates immunoregulatory mechanisms in cancer, pregnancy, and autoimmune diseases, with a particular emphasis on regulatory CD8+ T cells.
Our lab is focused on the host protective immune responses to M. tuberculosis, a major factor in outcome of infection.
Drug Delivery, Biomimetics, Immunotherapeutics, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Synthetic Systems
Genetics of congenital heart disease, role of epigenetics in adverse clinical outcome, disease modeling using patient derived induced pluripotent stem cells
The Lohmueller lab works on developing genetic engineering approaches to augment adoptive cell therapy (ACT) for the treatment of cancer.
Brain basis of cognitive maturation through adolescence to adulthood