Undergraduate Education:
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Biology, minor in Chemistry
Undergraduate Institution: Wheeling Jesuit University

Research Project Information

My project focuses on cellular therapies for age-related pathologies. In addition, we are exploring the hypothesis that aging partially results from a decrease in the quality of an adult's stem cells. In other words, one reason we age may be because our stem cells become less and less able to regenerate our tissues. We are exploring this hypothesis with several progeric mouse models (models of premature aging). p>

Publications

Abstracts:

Presentations:

He, W., Proto, J., Chew, D., Huard, J., and D.A. Vorp. The Effect of Cyclic Stretch of the Differentiation of Human Adult Muscle-Derived Stem Cells. Poster presentation, 2009 Annual McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Retreat, Farmington, PA, 2009