Breuer Lab Staff

Christopher Breuer, MD
Director
Christopher.Breuer@NationwideChildrens.org
Dr. Breuer is Co-Director of the new Tissue Engineering Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Director of Tissue Engineering in The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's new Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cell Based Therapies. His clinical and research interests center on bioengineered tissue for use in surgery. Working with Dr. Toshiharu Shinoka, he was the first in the world to tissue engineer blood vessels and implant them in human infants. Dr. Breuer has many honors recognizing his contributions, including the Jacobsen Promising Investigator Award from the American College of Surgeons which is given to the most innovative young surgical investigator in the country.
View Dr. Breuer's recent paper in Science Translational Medicine:

Marissa Guo, MD
Postdoctoral Scientist
Marissa.Guo1@NationwideChildrens.org

Syed Faizullah Hussaini, MD
Postdoctoral Scientist
SyedFaizullah.Hussaini@NationwideChildrens.org

James Reinhardt, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist
James.Reinhardt@NationwideChildrens.org
James's research is focused on studying the role of platelets in neotissue formation and stenosis in tissue engineered vascular grafts. He is also trying to determine how bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells inhibit the formation of stenosis and whether this can be attributed to surface expressed nucleotidases.

Mackenzie Turner
Postdoctoral Scientist
Mackenzie.Turner@NationwideChildrens.org

Anudari Ulziibayar, MD
Postdoctoral Scientist
Anudari.Ulziibayar@NationwideChildrens.org
Dr. Ulziibayar earned her bachelor’s degree in Medicine and her master's degree in clinical Medicine in Shanghai, China. Her interests include pediatric cardiology, catheterization and catheter-based therapies. She joined the Breuer Lab to assist with research optimizing biodegradable Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts (TEVGs) in animal models, with the eventual goal of translating the work to humans.

Tatsuya Watanabe, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist
Tatsuya.Watanabe@NationwideChilrens.org

Satoshi Yuhara
Postdoctoral Scientist
Satoshi.Yuhara@NationwideChildrens.org

Adrienne Morrison
Research Project Manager
Adrienne.Morrison@NationwideChildrens.org

Eric Heuer
Research Associate
Eric.Heuer@NationwideChildrens.org

Kirsten Nelson
Large Animal Surgical & Imaging Associate
Kirsten.Nelson@NationwideChildrens.org

Jingru Che
Research Assistant
Jingru.Che@NationwideChildrens.org

Joseph Leland
Research Student
Joseph.Leland@NationwideChildrens.org

Cole Anderson
Research Student
Cole.Anderson@NationwideChildrens.org

Delaney Villarreal
Research Student
Delaney.Villarreal@NationwideChildrens.org