Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Stem Cell Research

Albert Einstein College of Medicine is home to a strong and growing team of stem cell investigators, with particular strength in hematopoietic, cancer, and liver stem cell biology, including a liver transplant program.  

 

Pluripotent Stem Cells and Human Development

Eric Bouhassira, Ph.D. 
Directed Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Hematopoietic Lineages icon
 
Ales Cvekl, Ph.D. 
Stem Cells and Modeling of Eye Development Disease icon
 
 
Meelad M Dawlaty, Ph.D.
Epigenetics of Stem Cellsicon
 
John Greally, M.B., B.C.H., Ph.D. 
Stem Cell Epigenomics icon
 
 
 
Wei Liu, Ph.D.
Modeling retinal development and disease using stem cells icon
 
 
Jeffrey Pessin, Ph.D. 
Adipocyte Progenitor Cells icon
 
 
Carl Schildkraut, Ph.D. 
DNA Replication in Stem Cells icon
 
Jan Vijg Ph.D. 
Aging and Stem Cells icon
 
 
 
 
 

Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Keisuke Ito M.D. Ph.D.
Hematopoietic stem cells, Myelodysplastic syndrome and Sickle cell diseaseicon
 
Teresa Bowman, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of Tissue Regeneration in the Zebrasfish icon
 
 
Maria Maryanovich, Ph.D. 
Hematopoietic and Cancer Stem Cell Microenvironmenticon
 
Satish K. Nandakumar, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. 
Genetics of hematopoietic stem cell clonal dynamicsicon
 
 
Arthur Skoultchi, Ph.D. 
Control of Cell Proliferation in Embryonic Stem Cells icon
 
Britta Will, Ph.D.  
Mechanisms of Hematopoeitic Stem Cell Aging and Leukemic Transformationicon
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cancer Stem Cells

Jinan Behnan, Ph.D. 
Mesenchymal stem cells and glioma stem cells in brain tumors icon
 
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph.D. 
Hematopoietic and cancer stem cells icon
 
 
Eugen Dhimolea, Ph.D. 
Treatment-persistent cancer stem cellsicon
 
Evripidis Gavathiotis, Ph.D. 
Hematopoietic and cancer stem cells icon
 
 
 
Signaling Pathways in Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukemic Stem Cells icon
 
Wenjun Guo Ph.D. 
Breast Cancer Stem Cells icon
 
 
Lindsay LaFave, Ph.D. 
Chromatin biology in normal and malignant lung stem cells icon
 
 
Aditi Shastri, M.D. 
Hematopoietic and cancer stem cells icon
 
Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D.  
Hematopoietic and cancer stem cells    icon
 
 
Kristy Stengel, Ph.D.
Transcription networks in leukemic stem cells.icon
 
Amit Verma, M.D.  
Stem Cells and Myelodysplastic Syndrome icon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Endodermal Stem Cells

Leonard H. Augenlicht, Ph.D.  
Intestinal Stem Cells in Mucosal Homeostasis and Disease icon
 
Winfried Edelmann, Ph.D.
Stem Cell Epigenomics icon
 
 
Chandan Guha MBBS, Ph.D 
Stem Cell Therapies for Radiation Injury icon
 
Sanjeev Gupta, M.D. 
Liver regenerationicon
  
 
Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury, M.B.B.S. 
Liver Disease Modeling and Cell Therapy icon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Neural Stem Cells

Dongsheng Cai
Dongsheng Cai, M.D., Ph.D. 
Neuroimmunology and neural stem cell biology in aging and metabolic syndrome icon
 
Tiago Goncalves, Ph.D. 
Adult neurogenesis Neuronal development Learning and Memory Aging icon
 
 
Jean Hebert Ph.D.  
Replacement of Projection Neurons in the Neocortex icon
 
Herbert Lachman M.D.  
Neuroscience icon
 
 
Richard Stanley, Ph.D. 
Signaling in Hematopoietic Progenitors icon
 
Frank F. Soldner, M.D. 
Sub-section NEURAL STEM CELLS icon 
 
 
 
 
 

Research Resources

Stem cell researchers at Einstein have access to a wide and growing variety of investigational shared resources, cores, and centers, accessible through: Shared Facilities and Cores

Cell Analysis

Genetic Analysis

Molecular Structure Analysis

Tissue Analysis

Genetic Manipulation

Animal Research

Biohazard Research

Hepatic Research

Clinical and Translational Research

Analysis & Data Management