Garza Laboratory – Johns Hopkins Medicine

Welcome to the Garza Laboratory!

We are fascinated by questions of developmental biology, such as how a single cell has the instructions to build an entire organism. How these embryonic developmental patterns are reinitiated in adults is a central question for regenerative medicine and might eventually lead to insights on how to trigger the regrowth of a severed human limb, for example.

Our model system is the skin. To answer basic questions regarding stem cell biology and regeneration, we choose the skin because of its accessibility, the depth of current knowledge, and the complexity of epithelial/mesenchymal interactions in the context of relevant vasculature, nerves and hematopoietic cells.

Dermatologist Luis Garza is working to reactivate the codes that allowed our cells to build our organs. Harnessing this code as adults could change typical healing from scarring to regeneration.

Luis Garza, MD-PhD Professor & Daniel Nathans Scholar Department of Dermatology

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Office:Suite 204 Koch CRBII Lab: Suite 216 Koch CRBII 1550 Orleans Street Baltimore, MD 21231

Phone:410-955-8662 Fax:410-614-0635 Email:[emailprotected]

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Garza Laboratory - Johns Hopkins Medicine