
Mentor
Dr. Michael Tsang
Education
BS in Biology, Temple University, 2014
Research
Areas of Interest
cardiac development and regeneration, tissue regeneration and engineering
Why I chose Pitt
I was initially very interested in the strong regenerative medicine program that spans several departments, and the interdisciplinary training was very appealing to me as my scientific interestes cover several fields.
Publications
Massinato MA, Saydmohammed M, Zuppo DA, Rao KS, Opie GW, Kuhn B and Tsang M. (2018) Dusp6 attenuates Ras/MAPK signaling to limit zebrafish heart regeneration. Development. 145: pii: dev157206. doi: 10.1242/dev.157206. | View Abstract
Scimia M.C, Sydnes K.E, Zuppo D.A. and Koch W.J. (2014) Methods to improve cardiac gene therapy expression. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 12: 1317-1326. | View Abstract