(Left to right, back row): Stacey Cifelli, PhD student in Neuroscience, UMDNJ Foundation scholar; Deborah Lazzarino PhD, Asst Dean for Research Administration; Jamila Hedhli, former research technician; Zhaoyu Sun, recently graduated PhD student in Biomedical Sciences (currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF); Sophia Simonishvili, research associate; Lauren Mursch, PhD student in Neuroscience, UMDNJ Foundation scholar; (left to right, front row): Lauren Rota, PhD student in Biomedical Sciences, UMDNJ Foundation scholar; Terri Wood, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at NJMS; Jungsoo Min, Research associate.
Featured Faculty Teresa L. Wood, PhD., Professor Department of Neurology & Neurosciences
Dr. Teresa Wood is a Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at the New Jersey Medical School. She holds the Rena Warshow Endowed Chair in Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Wood is a graduate of Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. She completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology at UCLA, and completed post-doctoral work at the State University of New York (Stony Brook), in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and at Columbia University, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Her academic career includes 12 years on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. Dr. Wood joined the New Jersey Medical School faculty in 2005. Her research has benefited from more than fifteen years of continuous funding from the NIH and, more recently, from the Department of Defense and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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Dr. Wood's lab focuses on understanding mechanisms that promote normal development including proliferation, differentiation and survival of stem/progenitor and mature cells as well as how these processes are disrupted in pathological states. The two cell lineages she studies are the oligodendrocyte lineage that gives rise to myelin producing cells in the CNS and the mammary/breast epithelial cell lineage. CNS studies have elucidated signaling pathways promoting proliferation, survival and differentiation of oligodendroglia, both in normal development and after injury or in demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis. This work includes findings published in the Journal of Neuroscience that the mTOR pathway regulates oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination. Funding for this work from the National MS Society has allowed Dr. Wood's laboratory to further define how the mTOR pathway regulates developmental myelination as well as remyelination following a demyelinating injury. Dr. Wood also has had long-standing NIH funding to study insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and their receptors in mammary/breast epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation. Recent studies have focused on how IGF and insulin receptors function in regulating stem/progenitor cells and lineage specification in mammary epithelium and how these receptors interact with self-renewal and oncogenic pathways in promoting breast tumors.
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Amariliz Rivera, Ph.D. Join us in welcoming and congratulating a new Basic Science faculty member, Amariliz Rivera, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and member of the Center for Immunity and Inflammation at NJMS. She is the lead author of an article that was recently published in the prestigious Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) entitled, "Dectin-1 diversifies Aspergillus fumigatus-specific T cell responses by inhibiting T helper type 1 CD4 T cell differentiation."...Read More |
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Parents program at NJMS, was recently selected as a Fellow in Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders...Read More |