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Why Stem Cell Therapy Might Not Work for Older Patients

Leanne Jones, PhD, is at the forefront of studying how stem cells are influenced by their surrounding environment and directed to differentiate into one type of cell or another – research that’s critical for stem cell therapies to be successful.

Leanne Jones peers into a chamber with a high tech microscope

Can We Turn Back Time on Age-Related Diseases?

Emily Goldberg's lab studies what happens during aging to a particular set of immune cells: those embedded in fat tissue. She hypothesizes that changes to these cells during aging could be key to age-related inflammation.

Emily Goldberg speaks with someone in her lab while they point at a screen

Mission: A Tobacco-Free World

With vaping taking over the youth market, Pamela Ling, MD ’96, MPH, applies her research-driven social media and marketing expertise to beat the tobacco industry at its own game.

Portrait of Pamela Ling

Big Little Lives

Trillions of invisible organisms make up the human microbiome. Now, medical scientists want to put these bugs to work.

Hand-colored image from a scanning electron microscope of oral bacteria.