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.
Endocytic pathways and stretch-regulated endocytosis/exocytosis in bladder
The study of human tumor viruses
Redox signaling & autophagy in neuroprotection and neurodegeneration; Mitochondrial phosphoproteomics; Genetic & toxin models of Parkinson’s disease
HGF-MET-PI3K signaling in liver development, growth, regeneration and cancer. She has identified a novel regulator of the catalytic subunit of PI3K (p110) called PI3K interacting protein 1 (PIK3IP1)
Our laboratory is interested in the interplay of mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular senescence in lung epithelial and innate immune cells in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and pulmonary fibrosis to improve therapeutic options for patients.
Our research is focused primarily on stem cell biology and cell-based therapy for a variety of diseases including cancer and organ failure
Understanding how cytokines and proteases controlling normal liver growth become deviant, leading to the development of cirrhosis and liver cancer
Liver regeneration and carcinogenesis, exploring the effects of growth factors and associated signaling pathways
Aimed at elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of liver pathophysiology
Our lab studies the signaling processes and pathways in rare liver diseases, with a focus on cellular reprogramming, autophagy, and cell-cell interactions.
Oxidative mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis, acute lung injury, inflammation, and pneumonia; The laboratory also studies the role of RAGE in the lung.
Understanding of biological and clinical significance of tumor innervation and revealing neuroimmunological pathways controlling tumor spreading and metastasis formation
Angiogenesis and vascularization events in liver regeneration and remodeling
Integrative biology of wound healing and tumor metastasis, from molecules and cells through tissues and animals to humans