STaR Center Research Faculty
Our faculty study many different kinds of stem cells, including adult, embryonic, and cancer stem cells, as described in their research desciptions below.
Margaret Goodell, Ph.D., Director -- Hematopoietic stem cells
Department of Pediatrics; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
John Belmont, M.D., Ph.D. -- Hematopoietic stem cells
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Malcolm K. Brenner, M.D., Ph.D. -- Human hematopoioetic stem cells
Department of Medicine and Pediatrics; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
William R. Brinkley, Ph.D. -- Mammary gland stem cells
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Lawrence Chan, M.D., D.Sc.-- Hepatic stem cells
Department of Medicine; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Jenny Chang, M.D. -- Prognostic and predictive biologic markers in breast cancer
Department of Medicine; Breast Center
Orla Coneely, Ph.D.-- Cancer stem cells
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Cancer Center
Austin Cooney, Ph.D. -- Murine embryonic stem cells
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Gretchen Darlington, Ph.D. -- Hepatic stem cells
Department of Pathology; Huffington Center on Aging
Alan Davis, Ph.D. -- Bone regeneration
Department of Pediatrics; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Elizabeth Davis, Ph.D. -- Bone regeneration
Department of Pediatrics; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Benjamin Deneen, Ph.D. -- Glial Cell Development and Disease
Department of Neuroscience, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Mary Dickinson, Ph.D. -- Embryonic progenitors, vascular development, bioimaging and tissue engineering
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Xin-Hua Feng, Ph.D. -- Human embryonic stem cells
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
Helen Heslop, M.D. -- Human hematopoietic stem cells
Department of Medicine; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Karen Hirschi, Ph.D., Deputy Director -- Regulation of vascular development, vascular potential of adult and embryonic stem & progenitor cells, vascular tissue engineering
Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular & Cellular Biology; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
H. Daniel Lacorazza, Ph.D. -- Hematopoietic stem cells
Departments of Pathology and Immunology,
Dolores Lamb, Ph.D. -- Testicular stem cells
Department of Urology
Adrian V. Lee, Ph.D. -- Mammary tumor stem cells
Department of Medicine, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor Breast Center
Michael T. Lewis, Ph.D. -- Mammary tumor stem cells
Baylor Breast Center
De-Quan Li, M.D., Ph.D. -- Corneal stem cells
Department of Opthamology
Yi Li, Ph.D. -- Mammary tumor stem cells
Baylor Breast Center
Daniel Medina, Ph.D. -- Mammary tumor stem cells
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Hoang Nguyen, Ph.D -- Skin Stem Cells
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Alkesandar Rajkovic, M.D., Ph.D. -- Ovary stem cells
Department of Pathology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Jeffrey Rosen, Ph.D. -- Mammary gland stem cells
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Cancer Center
Chad Shaw, Ph.D. -- Stem cell gene expression
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
David Shine, Ph.D. -- Neural regeneration
Department of Neurology; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Zhou Songyang, Ph.D. -- Hematopoietic/Embryonic stem cells
Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Richard Sutton, M.D., Ph.D. -- Hematopoietic stem cells
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Thomas P. Zwaka, M.D., Ph.D. -- Human Embryonic stem cells
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Center for Cell and Gene Therapy