Environmental Health
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Stice Bio Dr. Steve Stice is a University of Georgia, DW Brooks Distinguished Professor and Director of the Regenerative Bioscience Center, who holds a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar endowed chair, and is CSO of Aruna Biomedical Inc. He has over 35 years of research and development experience in biotechnology and is a co-founder of…
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In the Lab Interleukin-1 beta (IL-1ß) is a cytokine that is produced by the immune system and a variety of cells in response to an insult. Previous work in our lab has demonstrated that this cytokine is capable of affecting specific neurotransmitter systems in specific parts of the brain by crossing the blood brain barrier…
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Bio Dr. P. S. MohanKumar was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He received his veterinary degree from the Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, India. He went onto pursue a PhD degree in neuroendocrinology at Kansas State University following it with a stint of postdoctoral fellowship at University of Kansas Medical Center. After a brief period as…
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In the Lab Functional heterogeneity is a significant barrier to the clinical translation of many cellular therapies, including mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs). Though MSCs have shown promise in treatment of immune diseases, the mechanisms of action and critical quality attributes (CQAs, predictors of function) in different therapeutic settings are largely unknown. The overall goal of the…
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Ph.D. Biochemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University 2008 M.S. Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University 2005 B.S., Biology, College of William and Mary 2002 In the Lab Medical treatments such as chemotherapies, exposure to environmental and industrial toxicants, and injury have all been shown to cause male factor infertility resulting in a complete loss of sperm production. To date,…