Home Department: Bioengineering
Supported by: Dean of Research
Mentor: Julien Sage, Pediatrics (Cancer Biology) and Genetics

Diana Gong is studying wound healing and regeneration in mammals. The hypothesis behind her work is that genes that normally prevent cancer ("tumor suppressors") also limit the regenerative potential of adult tissues and organs. To test this idea, she is specifically investigating how mice mutant for tumor suppressor genes repair a small hole punch in their ear.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:

Enhancing Wound Healing and Regeneration Through Inactivation of the Rb Pathway

Diana Gong^1,2, Julia Arand^1,2, Anne-Flore Zmoos^1,2, Frederique Zindy³, Julien Sage^1,2
[Departments of Pediatrics¹ and Genetics², Stanford University; Department of Tumor Cell Biology³, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN]