Personnel

Principal Investigator and Lab Director

Received graduate degrees in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Post-doc at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto under the co-mentorship of Drs. Gregory Borschel and Tessa Gordon.

Principal Investigator

Medical degree from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Plastic surgery residency at the University of Toronto. Fellowships in neurosurgical research at the University of Toronto and Hand Surgery at the Raymond Curtis Hand Center in Baltimore.

Focus on histology and microscopic analysis of nerves.

Focus on animal care, immunohistochemical analysis of tissues, and Behavioral studies of functional recovery in rodent models.

DBBS MSTP (MD/PhD) Student

Research topic: how different cells that repopulate acellular scaffolds used to repair nerve injuries impact regeneration.

DBBS MSTP (MD/PhD) Student

Research topic: how the immune response can be modulated to facilitate functional angiogenesis and regeneration across acellular scaffolds used to repair nerve injuries.

Junichi is a surgical resident from Osaka University performing a fellowship in the lab under the Uehara Memorial Foundation Overseas Research Fellowship. He is researching how electrical stimulation can be used and translated to the clinic as a therapy to improve the repair of nerve injuries.

Research topic: whether neuro-enhancing therapies have additive or synergistic effects on clinically-relevant nerve injury and repair scenarios.