Vascular Biology Programs | Investigators and Labs
Marsha A. Moses, PhD
Director, Vascular Biology Program
Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor
Harvard Medical School
Regulation of tumor growth, progression and metastasis
Non-invasive biomarker discovery and validation
Targeted, non-toxic nanomedicine technologies
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
Hong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Angiogenesis and vascular remodeling
Atherosclerosis and inflammation: Lymphatic Disorder & Obesity
Membrane and receptor trafficking mechanisms
Robert D'Amato, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Judah Folkman Chair in Surgery
Small molecule inhibitors of angiogenesis
Age related macular degeneration
Genetic modifiers of angiogenesis
Timothy Hla, PhD
Patricia K. Donahoe Professor
Lipid Mediators in Vascular Biology and Disease
Sphingosine 1 Phosphate Signaling
Gene Regulation in Vascular System
Donald Ingber, MD, PhD
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
Michael Klagsbrun, PhD
Emeritus Patricia K. 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, MD, PhD
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
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
