Investigative Leadership Team
Meet our team
Chandan K. Sen, PhD, is an Endowed Professor of Surgery, Director of the Pitt McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM), associate vice chancellor of life sciences innovation and commercialization at the University of Pittsburgh and chief scientific officer of the wound care service line at UPMC. Dr. Sen is recognized as a Lilly INCITE Scholar.
The overriding theme that covers the research interests of the Sen laboratory across programs is tissue injury and repair. This overarching umbrella includes:
- regenerative medicine and cell-based therapies
- stroke
- tissue injury and repair
- miRNA in injury and repair
- cell and tissue reprogramming
- redox signaling
- wound healing
- tissue oxygenation
- wound epigenetics
- and biofilm infection
He is a widely recognized expert in regenerative medicine and wound healing. His research group works across a comprehensive platform covering basic cell culture to small animal and large animal models to human and patient-based research. Dr. Sen is continually opening up exciting new frontiers in regenerative medicine and is a leading example of a successful and altruistic scientist whose work is improving healthcare and the quality of patient lives globally.
Dr. Sen is joined by the following multidisciplinary leadership team to advance understanding of human post-mortem tissue response.
Principal Investigator: Chandan K. Sen, PhD
Scientific Administrator: Shomita Steiner, PhD
Analytics: Sashwati Roy, PhD and Kanhaiya Singh, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Surgery
Tissue Procurement: George E. Sandusky, DVM, PhD, IU School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Philosophy and Bioethics: Peter H. Schwartz, MD, PhD, IU Center for Bioethics; Amit Hagar, PhD, IU College of Arts + Sciences’ Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine; and Tim O’Connor, MA, PhD, College of Arts + Sciences’ Cognitive Science Program