David Goldhamer

Education

Purdue University, BS, Biological Sciences; The Ohio State University, PhD, Developmental Biology

Professional Areas

Developmental and stem cell biologist, expertise in muscle development, regeneration, and rare musculoskeletal diseases characterized by inappropriate accumulations of fat, fibrotic tissue, or cartilage/bone. Expertise in gene regulatory mechanisms, cell signaling, and normal and disease models.

Citation

For seminal insights into the programming of muscle stem cells and identification and characterization of progenitor cells that transform soft tissues into bone after injury or in disease, and for providing the first insights into the transcriptional control of genes that regulate muscle lineage determination.