Center for Regenerative Medicine

Learn more about director Christopher Breuer, MD, and his team of principal investigators at the Center for Regenerative Medicine.

The Barker Lab studies wound healing and disorders of abnormal wound healing. As the primary research laboratory for the Department of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. Jenny Barker facilitates innovative and collaborative translational science for would care and plastic surgery patients.

The focus of the Breuer and Shinoka Labs is to design a tissue engineered vascular graft (TEVG) that can be used during surgery that, over time transitions to a normal blood vessel that will grow with our pediatric patients.

The Chiang Lab is devoted to the design of tissue-engineered trachea for the management of complex long-segment airway defects. An ideal tracheal graft will allow for the replacement of diseased for absent tissue with a living construct capable of renewal and regeneration.

The Kelly Lab's research is focused on improving the care of children born with congenital heart disease, with a particular interest in single ventricle heart disease. Our work is translational in nature, centered on the discovery, development and dissemination of new diagnostics and treatments for patients with single ventricle heart disease.

Under the direction of Daisuke Onohara, MD, PhD, the Onohara Lab is focused on translational research, specifically in establishing complex large animal models and developing new surgical / interventional treatments.

Under the direction of Toshiharu Shinoka, MD, PhD, the Shinoka Lab works closely with Dr. Christopher Breuer's lab in optimizing Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts (TEVGs) in animal models, with the goal of translating the work to humans.

Under the direction of Mitchel Stacy, PhD, the Stacy Lab is focused on the development and validation of quantitative imaging techniques that possess potential for clinical translation, with particular interest and focus on imaging of cardiovascular disease.