Primary Investigators, Mentors and Core Directors:

Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Vincent Falanga, MD
(PI of the COBRE)

Dr. Falanga is Professor of Dermatology and Biochemistry and head of the training program. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Dermatology. He is an established investigator and expert in the field of tissue repair and impaired healing, including basic science work and key translational studies. His interests have been largely focused on impaired healing, growth factors (particularly TGF-β), bioengineered skin, and stem cells. He is the lead author on the first demonstration of the effectiveness of bioengineered skin in wound healing. Due to his work, the use of pentoxifylline is now established for use in chronic wounds.

He has worked out the conditions for cultured bone marrow-derived autologous mesenchymal stem cells in human chronic wounds. Largely due to his work, the principles of wound bed preparation for the successful use of advanced therapeutic agents in wound healing have been adopted and are widely used. He has been continuously funded by the NIH for the last 22 years for work related to tissue repair. In 2004, he was president of the Wound Healing Society, a major multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the science of wound healing. He has a long and successful history of mentoring, thesis advisor, and career development of junior investigators from the United States and abroad. He is the author of over 400 publications.
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Professor, Surgery department. Hematologist/Oncologist.

Interest: T cells as a platform for immunological therapy and cancer treatment, gene therapy.
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Robert Sackstein, MD, PhD
Associate professor, Harvard Medical School.

Interest: one marrow transplantation, lymphocyte trafficking, stem cell biology and targeting of stem cells.
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Marshall Kadin, MD
Professor, department of Dermatology. A hematopathologist and one of the world's expert on the biology of cutaneous lymphomas..

Interest: immunology, lymphoid malignancies.
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Nicola Kouttab, PhD
Professor, Surgery department. Hematologist/Oncologist.

Interest: Flow cytometric analysis and basic science related to differentiation markers.


Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Marianne Hadzima, MLS
COBRE Program Administrator Administrator Core

 

 
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Deborah Greer, MS
COBRE Laboratory Manager Molecular Biology Core

 

 
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Tatyana Yufit, MD
GMP Core Director

 

 
Richard Junghans, MD, PhD
Polly Carson, CWS
Clinical Research.

 

 
COBRE Team

Contact Information


Polly Carson, COBRE Interim Administrator pcarson@rwmc.org
401-456-2062

COBRE is funded through grant number P20 RR018757 by NIH/National Center for Research Resources.