Membership

Leadership:

Brigid Hogan, PhD 919-684-8085 b.hogan@cellbio.duke.edu Tannishtha Reya, PhD 919-613-8756 reya0001@mc.duke.edu

 

Executive Committee:

Nelson Chao, MD
Farshid Guilak, PhD
Joanne Kurtzberg, MD

Administrative Assistant

Teresa Jenkins
919-684-8085
t.jenkins@cellbio.duke.edu

The Stem Cell Research Program (SCRP) is a new program in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.  It includes 30 laboratories from 12 different departments and encompasses basic, translational, and clinical research on stem cells. Within the Cancer Center the SCRP nicely complements the existing four basic research programs and dovetails with most of the existing seven translational/clinical programs, especially Bone Marrow Transplantation, Breast and Ovarian Cancer, and Radiation Oncology.  Currently, the research interest of the members fall into several general categories:

• Bone Marrow and hematopoietic stem cells
• Mesenchymal stem cells, including cardiac stem cells and heart regeneration
• Neural stem cells
• Liver and Gastrointestinal Stem Cells
• Skin Stem Cells: melanocyte stem cells in melanoma
• Embryonic stem cells, germ cells and germ - somatic cell interactions
• Stem Cells and Genomics
• Stem Cells in relation to Tissue Engineering
• Stem Cells and Cancer

Bone Marrow and Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Nelson Chao, MD
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Department of Medicine; Division of Medical Oncology and Transplantation
Box 3961, DUMC, Durham, NC  27701
Phone: 919-668-1011
email: chao0002@mc.duke.edu
url: http://bmt.mc.duke.edu/

Benny Chen, MD, MS
Assistant Research Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine; Division of Medical Oncology and Transplantation
Box 3289, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-681-6816
email: chen0032@mc.duke.edu

John Chute, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine; Division of Cellular Therapy Division
Box 3961, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-668-1011
email: john.chute@duke.edu

Michael Colvin, MD
Professor of Hematology and Oncology
Box 3814, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-4167
email: Michael.colvin@duke.edu

Motonari Kondo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology
Box 3010, DUMC; Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-613-7809
email: motonari.kondo@duke.edu

Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Pathology
Department of Pediatrics; Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Box 3350, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-668-1100
email: kurtz001@mc.duke.edu
url: http://www.cancer.duke.edu/pbmt

Tannishtha Reya, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Box 3813, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-613-8756
email: reya0001@mc.duke.edu
url:  http://www.reyalab.org/

Robert Storms, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Medicine; Division of Cellular Therapy
Box 3361, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-6804
email: storms@duke.edu

Keith Sullivan, MD
James B. Wyngaarden Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology and Transplantation
Address: Box 3476, DUMC
Durham, Nc  27710
Phone: 919-681-9507
email: sulli025@mc.duke.edu

Mesenchymal Stem Cells including cardiac stem cells and heart regeneration

Victor Dzau, MD
Chancellor for Health Affairs, DU
Office of the Chancellor
Box 3701, DUMC; Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-2255
email: victor.dzau@duke.edu
url: http://www.dukehealth.org/newchancellor

Ken Poss, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-3683
email: k.poss@cellbio.duke.edu
url: http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/research/poss.html

Zhen Yan, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Address: 4321 Medical Park Dr., Suite 200,
Duke University Independence Park Facility
Durham, NC 27704
Phone: 919-479-2373
email: zhen.yan@duke.edu

 

 

Neural Stem Cells

Cagla Eroglu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-3605
email: c.eroglu@cellbio.duke.edu
url: http://cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/research/eroglu.html

Chay Kuo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC
Phone: 684-4612
email: c.kuo@cellbio.duke.edu
url: http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/research/kuo.html

Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Box 3813, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-613-8754
email: rw.reya@duke.edu
url: http://www.wechsler-reya.org/

Epithelial stem cells, encompassing stem cells in lung, liver, gastrointestinal tract and skin (including melanoma)

Michel Bagnat, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
Phone: 919-681-9268
email: m.bagnat@cellbio.duke.edu

Anna Mae Diehl, MD
Professor
Department of Medicine and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
Box 3256, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-4173
email: annamae.diehl@duke.edu

Terry Lechler, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC, Durham NC 27710
Phone: 919-684-4550
email: t.lechler@cellbio.duke.edu
www.cellbio.duke.edu/Faculty/Research/Lechler.html 

Barry Stripp, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine--Pulmonary
Box 10300, Durham, NC 27710
Phone: 919-668-7762
email: barry.stripp@duke.edu
url: www.StrippLab.net

Embryonic stem cells, germ cells and germ-somatic cell interactions

Blanche Capel, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC; Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-6390
email: b.capel@cellbio.duke.edu
url: http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/capel/index.html

Brigid Hogan, PhD, FRS
Professor and Chair of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC; Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-8085
email: b.hogan@cellbio.duke.edu
url: http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/research/hogan.html 

Stem Cells in Relation to Tissue Engineering

Nenad Bursac, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
3000 Science Drive
Hudson Hall - Engineering, Room 136
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
phone: 919-660-5510
email: nbrusac@duke.edu

Farshid Guilak, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery; Division of Orthopaedics
Box 3093, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-2521 
email: guilak@duke.edu

Cells and Genomics

Randy Jirtle, PhD
Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Box 3433, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-684-2770
email: jirtle@radonc.duke.edu

Victoria Seewaldt, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine; Division of Oncology
Box 2628, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-668-0718
email: seewa001@mc.duke.edu

Stem Cells and Cancer

Chay Kuo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Box 3709, DUMC
Phone: 684-4612
email: c.kuo@cellbio.duke.edu
url: http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/research/kuo.html

Herbert K. Lyerly, MD
Director, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Surgery
401 Medical Science Research Building
Box 2606, DUMC
Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-681-8350
Email: lyerl001@mc.duke.edu

Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Box 3813, DUMC, Durham, NC  27710
Phone: 919-613-8754
email: rw.reya@duke.edu
url: http://www.wechsler-reya.org/