Dr. Gray is overseeing one of the nation’s few facilities that manufactures a special type of gene-delivering virus for patient use.

We use genetic systems to deconstruct functions associated with the most commonly mutated genes found in human cancers.

Located in the Department of Ophthalmology, the Wert laboratory studies the post-mitotic neuronal cells of the retina, particularly the photoreceptor cells. Our goal is to discover and understand the mechanisms underlying retinal degenerative disease, and to provide novel therapeutics for these complex degenerative disorders using gene therapy and genome engineering technologies, human stem cell transplantations, and metabolic rescue.

We employ a variety of methods including evolutionary analysis, genomics, and molecular biology to study the biology of infection.

The overall goal of our laboratory is to discover the processes in endothelial cells that govern cardiovascular and metabolic health and disease. 

The Sun Lab studies the most numerous cells in the brain, called “glial cells”.

Our lab currently studies hypoxia, prolyl hydroxylase, and VHL signaling in cancer, especially breast and renal cell carcinomas.

The Bioinformatics Lab provides services to manage and analyze next-generation sequencing data.

Welcome to the Xing Lab in the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development!

The research in the Johnson lab is focused on vertebrate nervous system development during the transition from proliferating neural stem cells to differentiating neurons and glia.