Research Area

Vascular Biology Program

 

 

Marsha A. Moses, PhD
Director
Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor
Harvard Medical School

  • Regulation of tumor growth, progression and metastasis
  • Non-invasive biomarker discovery and validation

 

 

 

Diane Bielenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

  • Regulation of metastasis
  • Regulation of lymphangiogenesis

 

 

 

Joyce Bischoff, PhD
Professor of Surgery

  • Infantile hemangioma
  • Vascular networks
  • Endothelial to mesenchymal differentiation in cardiac valves

 

 

Joanne Chan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

  • Zebrafish assays for angiogenesis
  • Chemical genetics of vascular development in zebrafish

 

 

Robert D'Amato, PhD, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology (Pathology)

  • Small molecule inhibitors of angiogenesis
  • Genetic modifiers of angiogenesis

 

 

Donald Ingber, MD
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology in the Department of Pathology

  • Biologically inspired engineering
  • Mechanotransduction in endothelial cells

 

 

Joseph Italiano, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

  • Role of platelets in regulating angiogenesis
  • Mechanics and signaling pathways in the formation of platelets

 

 

Mark Kieran, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

  • Antiangiogenic effects of a number of available agents
  • Translating promising agents from the laboratory to clinical trials

 

 

Michael Klagsbrun, PhD
Patricia A. Donahoe Professor of Surgery (Pathology)

  • Axon guidance mediators
  • Tumor angiogenesis and progression
  • Regulation of semaphorin expression

 

 

Benjamin Matthews, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

  • Mechanisms of Ventilator Induced Lung Injury (VILI)
  • Drug delivery systems to pre-treat VILI

 

 

Mark Puder, PhD, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery

  • Role of lipid composition in total parenteral nutrition induced liver disease
  • Chemoprevention of surgical adhesions

 

 

Michael S. Rogers, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

  • Genetic modifiers of the angiogenic response
  • The role of anthrax toxin receptors in angiogenesis

 

 

Yuen Shing, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery

  • Purification and characterization of angiogenesis inhibitors

 

 

Edward R. Smith, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery

  • Primary brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease
  • Molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis and angiogenesis in the central nervous system

 

 

Randolph Watnick, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

  • Tumor stromal interactions
  • Regulators of metastasis
  • Gene regulation in epithelial and mesenchymal cells

 

 

Bruce Zetter, PhD
Charles Nowiszewski Professor of Cancer Biology in the Department of Surgery

  • The mechanisms underlying the process of tumor metastasis
  • Protein biomarkers that predict outcome in human cancer patients
  • Drugs that selectively inhibit the growth of metastatic cancer cells