| DIVISION | FACULTY | PROJECTS |
| Cardiac | Galloway | Veingraft intimal hyperplasia and cell signaling pathways |
| Cardiac | Pintucci | Intracellular signaling and vascular remodeling: Role of growth factors and stress stimuli in proliferation, migration and programmed death of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells |
| Cardiac | Mignatti | Autocrine mechanisms of angiogenesis |
| General/Onc | Berman | Resistance to detachment-Induced apoptosis (Anoikis) and its role in the development of the metastatic phenotype in colorectal cancer |
| General/Onc | Berman | Cell death determinants of metastatic breast cancer/melanoma |
| General/Onc | Berman | Identification of populations at aignificant risk for hepatocellular carcinoma |
| General/Onc | Berman | Solid tumor resistance to chemotherapy-induced apoptosis |
| General/Onc | Newman | Gastric cancer working group (combination of surgery, path, basic science in various gastric cancer projects) |
| General/Onc | Shamamian | Carboxypeptidase A in pancreatic disease |
| General/Onc | Shamamian | Endothial progenitors in malignancy |
| General/Onc | Shamamian | Plasminogen activators in tumor progression |
| General/Onc | Mignatti | Non proteolytic roles of membrane type matrix metalloproteinase in breast cancer |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Ex vivo transfection of microvascular free flaps for local and systemic gene therapy |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Cellular dysfunction in diabetes:Ê Role of advanced glycosylation end-products and implications in impaired wound healing and accelerated atherosclerosis |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Role of wnt and hedgehog morphogens in late remodeling events in the cutaneous and vascular response to injury |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Endothelial progenitor cell signaling in response to hypoxia/normoxia |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Effect of PEMF (pulsed electro magnetic field) on angiogenesis in HUVECs: Implications for tumor growth and therapeutic angiogenesis |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Biomechanical regulation of gene expression in cultured human fibroblasts (micro array approach) |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Tissue engineering approaches to chronic lymphedema: VEGF-C transfected EPCs |
| Plastics | Gurtner | Embryonic vascular patterning:Ê Influence of hypoxia and electrochemical gradients |
| Transplant | Diflo | Expression of matrix metalloproteinases in chronically rejecting aortic allografts |
| Transplant | Diflo | Bone marrow transplantation and cutaneous wound healing in mice |
| Transplant | Diflo | Correction of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis by bone marrow transplantation in mice |
| Transplant | Diflo | Uterine tansplantation in rats |
| Transplant | Teperman | Stem cell tumor model for HCC |
| Transplant | Teperman | Wound healing with rapamycin |
