Faculty and Staff Profiles

The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center includes over 100 faculty members working across six UW–Madison schools and colleges, 40 departments, and 10 centers and institutes. The Center connects multidisciplinary research throughout the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, which includes international prominence in biological sciences, clinical research, and biotechnology. Investigators work together in scientific focus groups to translate the remarkable basic science discoveries in stem cell biology into revolutionary new regenerative medicine treatments for major human diseases. This page lists faculty and staff members. Click on a photo to get more information about the member.

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Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD

Position title: Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology; Medical Director, Pain clinic; Medical Director of Pain Services UW-Madison Division Chief, Chronic Pain

Email: abdelsayed@wisc.edu

Tausif Alam, PhD

Position title: Senior Scientist, Surgery / Transplantation

Email: alam@surgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-5498

B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, PhD

Position title: Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Email: blallenh@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-2884

Randolph S. Ashton, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Wisconsin Institute of Discovery; Associate Director, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center

Email: rashton2@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-316-4312

Alan D. Attie, PhD

Position title: Professor, Biochemistry

Email: adattie@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-1372

Craig S. Atwood, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine

Email: csa@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-256-1901

Anjon Audhya

Position title: Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry

Email: audhya@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-3761

Arash Bashirullah, PhD

Credentials: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: BASHIRULLAH@WISC.EDU

Phone: 608-890-1851

David J. Beebe, PhD

Position title: Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Email: djbeebe@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-2260

William (Bill) Bement, PhD

Credentials: Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging; Department of Integrative Biology

Position title: Director/Professor

Email: wmbement@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-215-5918

Anita Bhattacharyya, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: bhattacharyy@waisman.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-6142

Alexander Birbrair, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology

Email: birbrair@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-698-0034

Roméo Blanc, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: rblanc@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-3775

Barak Blum, PHD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: bblum4@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-5211

Grace Boekhoff-Falk, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Cell & Regenerative Biology

Email: boekhofffalk@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-1609

Marjorie Brand, PhD

Position title: Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: mbrand3@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-4676

Emery H. Bresnick, PHD

Position title: Gary Felsenfeld Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology; Lowell and Gwendolyn Smythe Endowed Professor, Director, UW-Madison Blood Cancer Research Program

Email: ehbresni@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-6446

Matthew E. Brown, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Surgery/Transplant

Email: brownm@surgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-1727

William J. Burlingham, PHD

Position title: Professor, Surgery/Transplant

Email: burlingham@surgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-0119

Weibo Cai, PHD

Position title: Professor, Radiology / Medical Physics / Materials Science & Engineering / Pharmaceutical Sciences

Email: wcai@uwhealth.org

Phone: 608-262-1749

Zachary T. Campbell, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Email: zcampbell@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-6710

Christian Capitini, MD

Position title: Jean R. Finley Professor in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Professor of Pediatrics. Chief, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant

Email: ccapitini@pediatrics.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-2415

Qiang Chang, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Med Genetics / Neurology; Director, Waisman Center

Email: qchang@waisman.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-9416

Ricki Colman

Credentials: Cell & Regenerative Biology, Primate Center

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: rcolman@primate.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-3544

Wendy C. Crone, PHD

Position title: Professor, Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering

Email: crone@engr.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-8384

Erik Dent, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Neuroscience

Email: ewdent@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-4672

Kenneth DeSantes, MD

Position title: Crawford Professor of Pediatric Oncology

Email: kbdesantes@pediatrics.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-8563

Address:
4103 WI Institute Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

F. Jeffrey Dilworth, PhD

Position title: Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: fdilworth@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-3758

Robert Drape

Position title: Chief Executive Officer, WiCell

Email: rdrape@wicell.org

Phone: 608-291-6100 ext. 1003

Address:
WiCell
504 S. Rosa Rd., Suite 101
Madison, WI 53719

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, PhD

Position title: Professor of Genetics and Investigator of the Morgridge Institute for Research

Email: ddbarbosa@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-0060

Address:
Genetics & Biotechnology Center
425 Henry Mall, Room 4102
Madison, WI 53706

Lee L. Eckhardt, MD

Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine

Email: lle@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-4188

Marina Emborg, MD, PhD

Position title: Professor, Medical Physics

Email: emborg@primate.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-9714

Feyza Engin, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry

Email: fengin@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-6206

Norm Fost, MD

Position title: Professor Emeritus

Email: ncfost@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-8562

Jacques Galipeau, MD

Position title: Associate Dean for Therapeutics Development and Don and Marilyn Anderson Professor of Oncology

Email: jgalipeau@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-6701

Address:
WI Institute Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705-2275

David M. Gamm

Credentials: MD, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Email: dgamm@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-261-1516

Ying Ge, PhD

Position title: Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: ge2@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-9212

Alexey V. Glukhov, PhD

Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine

Email: aglukhov@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-2069

Address:
8455 WI Institute for Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

Timothy Gomez, PhD

Position title: Professor, Neuroscience

Email: tmgomez@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-4554

Shaoqin 'Sarah' Gong, PhD

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Professor, Advancing Vision Science Chair Professor, RRF Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professor

Email: shaoqingong@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-316-4311

Timothy A. Hacker, PhD

Position title: Director, Cardiovascular Physiology Core Facility, Medicine

Email: th2@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-1539

Mary Halloran, PhD

Credentials: Integrative Biology, Neuroscience

Position title: Professor

Email: mchalloran@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-7875

Melissa Harrison, PhD

Credentials: Biomolecular Chemistry

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: mharrison3@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-2382

Corinne Henak, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering (affiliate)

Email: chenak@wisc.edu

Linda Hogle, PhD

Position title: Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Emerita

Email: lfhogle@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-6954

Address:
Room 1440, Medical Sciences Center

Troy Hornberger, PhD

Credentials: Comparative Biosciences

Position title: Professor - Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Email: troy.hornberger@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-695-2847

Patrick C.H. Hsieh, MD, PHD

Position title: Visiting Professor

Email: phsieh@ibms.sinica.edu.tw

Phone: (608) 236-3788

Address:
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
128 Academia Road, Sec. 2, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan

Anna Huttenlocher, MD, PhD

Position title: Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Email: huttenlocher@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-4669

Akihiro Ikeda, PhD

Credentials: Medical Genetics

Position title: Professor

Email: aikeda@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-5477

Jeffrey A. Johnson, PhD

Position title: Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Email: jajohnson@pharmacy.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-2893

Joan Jorgensen, DVM, PhD

Credentials: Comparative Biosciences

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: joan.jorgensen@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-2337

Robert F. Kalejta, PhD

Position title: Professor, Oncology / Molecular Virology

Email: rfkalejta@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-2893

Timothy Kamp, MD, PHD

Position title: Professor, Medicine; Director, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center

Email: tjk@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 263-1172

Junsu Kang, PHD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: junsu.kang@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-8678

Address:
4451 Wi Institute Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

Joseph W. Kemnitz, PHD

Position title: Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: kemnitz@primate.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-3500

Judith Kimble, PHD

Position title: Professor, Biochemistry

Email: jekimble@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-6188

Randall J Kimple, MD, PhD, MBA, FASTRO

Position title: Associate Professor, Human Oncology

Email: rkimple@humonc.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-9156

Kenneth S. Lee, MD, MBA

Position title: Professor of Radiology and Section Chief, Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention

Email: klee2@uwhealth.org

Phone: 608-263-9387

Youngsook Lee, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: youngsooklee@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-6352

Wan-Ju Li, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation / Biomedical Engineering

Email: li@ortho.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-1338

Robert Lipinski, PhD

Credentials: Comparative Biosciences

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: robert.lipinski@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-4043

Bo Liu, PHD

Position title: Professor, Surgery

Email: Liub@surgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-5931

Valentina Lo Sardo

Credentials: PhD in Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies

Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: losardo@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-5624

Tenneille E. Ludwig, PHD

Position title: Director, WiCell Stem Cell Bank

Email: tludwig@wicell.org

Phone: 608.291.6100 x1010

Ahmed I. Mahmoud, PHD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: aimahmoud@wisc.edu

Address:
WI Institutes for Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

Mark D. Markel, DVM, PHD

Position title: Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine

Email: mark.markel@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-3573

Bekah McBride, MA

Position title: Communications

Email: bmcbride@medicine.wisc.edu

M. Elizabeth (Beth) Meyerand, PHD

Position title: Professor, Medical Physics / Biomedical Engineering

Email: memeyerand@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-1685

Darcie L. Moore, PHD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Email: darcie.moore@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-7836

Deane Mosher, MD

Position title: Professor, Medicine / Biomolecular Chemistry

Email: dfmosher@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-1576

William L. Murphy, PHD

Position title: Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Orthopedics & Rehabilitation

Email: wlmurphy@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-9978

Paige Mussehl

Position title: Administrator

Email: pmussehl@wisc.edu

Address:
UW–Madison Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center
8457 WIMR II
1111 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Phillip Newmark, PhD

Credentials: Morgridge Institute for Research, Integrative Biology

Position title: HHMI Investigator

Email: pnewmark@morgridge.org

Phone: 608-316-4105

Jon S. Odorico, MD

Position title: Professor, Surgery

Email: jon@surgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-0388

Sean P. Palecek, PHD

Position title: Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering / Biomedical Engineering

Email: sppalecek@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-8931

Bikash R. Pattnaik, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Pediatrics / Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Email: bikashp@pediatrics.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-417-6446

J. Carter Ralphe, MD

Position title: Associate Professor; Chief, Pediatric Cardiology; Director, Pediatric Heart Program

Email: jcralphe@pediatrics.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-1603

Amish N. Raval, MD

Position title: Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Affiliate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Email: anr@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-0836

Gail A. Robertson, PHD

Position title: Professor, Neuroscience

Email: garobert@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-3339

Sushmita Roy, PhD

Credentials: Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: sroy@biostat.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-316-4453

Krishanu Saha, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Email: ksaha@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-316-4313

Eric G. Schmuck, PHD

Position title: Senior Scientist, Cardiovascular Medicine

Email: egs@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-9449

Linda A. Schuler, VMD, PHD

Position title: Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Email: linda.schuler@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-9825

Vijay Setaluri, PHD

Position title: Professor, Dermatology

Email: setaluri@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-5362

Nader Sheibani, PHD

Position title: Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Email: nsheibanikar@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-3345

Eric V. Shusta, PHD

Position title: Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Email: shusta@engr.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-5103

Melissa Skala, PHD

Position title: Professor, Morgridge Institute for Research; Biomedical Engineering

Email: mcskala@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-316-4108

Igor I. Slukvin, MD, PHD

Position title: Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Email: islukvin@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-0058

Andre M. Sousa, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Waisman Center, Department of Neuroscience

Email: andre.sousa@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 890-0875

Jayne M. Squirrell, PHD

Position title: Senior Scientist, Molecular Biology

Email: jsquirre@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-5428

Rupa Sridharan, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: rsridharan2@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-316-4422

Robert Streiffer, PHD

Position title: Professor, Bioethics and Philosophy

Email: rstreiffer@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-7490

Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PHD

Position title: Professor. Comparative Biosciences

Email: masatoshi.suzuki@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-4264

Owen Tamplin

Credentials: PhD, Molecular Genetics

Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: tamplin@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-0938

Michael Taylor, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division

Email: michael.taylor@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-1939

Ei Terasawa, PHD

Position title: Professor, Pediatrics / Primate Center

Email: terasawa@primate.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-3579

Susan L. Thibeault, PHD, CCC-SLP

Position title: Professor, Surgery / Biomedicial Engineering / Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Email: thibeault@surgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-6751

James A. Thomson, VMD, PHD

Position title: Director, Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research; Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology

Email: jthomson@morgridge.org

Phone: 608-316-4348

Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng, PHD

Position title: Professor and Co-Director, Polymer Engineering Center

Email: turng@engr.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-0586

Ray Vanderby, PHD

Position title: Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Email: vanderby@orthorehab.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-9593

Raghu Vemuganti, PHD

Position title: Professor, Neurological Surgery

Email: vemuganti@neurosurgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-4055

Brian Walczak, DO

Position title: Assistant Professor of Orthopedics in the Department of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation

Email: walczak@ortho.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-5636

Address:
5th Floor Wi Institute Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

David Wassarman, PhD

Credentials: Medical Genetics

Position title: Professor

Email: dawassarman@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-6648

Nathan Welham, PHD, CCC-SLP

Position title: Professor, Otolaryngology / Surgery

Email: welham@surgery.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-263-4320

Deneen M. Wellik, Ph.D.

Position title: Chair and Professor, Cell & Regenerative Biology

Email: wellik@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-5491

Address:
Wi Institute Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

Justin Williams, PHD

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Neurological Surgery

Email: jwilliams@engr.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-3952

John J. Wilson, MD

Position title: Associate Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation / Sports Medicine

Email: wilson@ortho.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-628-8200

Matthew R Wolff, MD

Position title: Professor of Medicine (CHS)

Email: mrwolff@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-590-5447

Justin Wolter, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics

Email: wolter4@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-5321

Wei Xu, PhD

Position title: Professor, Oncology

Email: wxu@oncology.wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-5540

Address:
7457 Wi Institute Medical Research
1111 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PHD

Position title: Professor, Neuroscience / Neurology / Waisman Center

Email: zhang@waisman.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-2543

Jing Zhang, PHD

Position title: Associate Professor, Oncology

Email: zhang@oncology.wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-2177

Fei Zhao, PhD

Position title: Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Email: fei.zhao@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-2610

Xinyu Zhao, PHD

Position title: Professor, Neuroscience / Waisman Center

Email: xinyu.zhao@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-890-0173