Professor
Skeletal Muscle Regeneration and Disease Modeling using Pluripotent Stem Cells
Research Type
IBP PhD Graduate Program
UMN Medical School Bio
Rita Perlingeiro is a Lillehei Professor in Stem Cell and Regenerative Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Summary
Our laboratory has a long-term interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling lineage-specific differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (i.e. embryonic and adult reprogrammed stem cells), and applying this information to efficiently generate tissue-specific stem/progenitor cells endowed with in vivo regenerative potential.