Dr. Joseph Shrager practices all aspects of thoracic surgery but has specials interest and experience in lung cancer, surgery for emphysema, and mediastinal diseases. His clinical publications reflect these interests. In all cases, he looks towards minimally invasive approaches where appropriate, including VATS (thoracoscopic) lobectomy for early stage lung cancer and transcervical thymectomy.

The Woo lab uses cardiac surgery and coronary ligation as a model to study ischemic cardiomyopathy and stem cell biology, as well as to test novel molecular and cellular therapeutics.

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Cliff Wang
Talk Title: Synthetic optimization of the MAPK and P13K pathways for cell proliferation and survival
Event: 6th International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Development of a Constitutive Promoter Library for Optimization of Cell Lines
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Dr. Elias's lab develops and applies mass spectrometry techniques for studying, complex biological systems.