The focus is on identifying ways in which stem cells can be used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, heart disease and failure, bone and joint issues. myeloma and lymphoma, and vision loss from diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. Our investigators have expertise in bioengineering, computational biology, developmental biology, epigenetics and chromatin dynamics, progenitor and stem cell biology, telomere regulation, and the engineering of nanomaterials and tissue scaffolds.