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.
Molecular mechanisms underlying various neurological disorders using human genetic approaches as well as research on animal and cell culture models
NADPH oxidase (Nox) & reactive oxygen species in signaling, vascular dysfunction and cardiopulmonary disease; Nox drug therapy development
Molecular mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Neuroimaging biomarkers of antidepressant treatment response in humans; Molecular bases of depression
Research in the Phillippi Lab is focused on microvascular dysfunction in cardiopulmonary disease, the role of perivascular progenitor cells, adventitial biology/biomechanics and vasa vasorum function in aortic disease and lung failure, cell-matrix interactions inciting vascular/microvascular matrix remodeling, pericytes in (patho)physiological vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, and tissue-engineered models of cardiovascular disease.
Identification of neural correlates that underlie the symptoms of specific abnormalities in emotion processing in people with mood disorders
Stroke, motor control, proprioception, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), biomarkers
Molecularly targeted therapeutics for childhood and adult brain tumors and identifying and counteracting mechanisms of glioma treatment resistance.
Metabolic, molecular and biochemical changes in animal models of pediatric and adult liver cancers and how best to capitalize on these for therapeutic purposes