Yvon Woappi

Dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Yvon Woappi

Yvon Woappi is an Instructor in the Department of Dermatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his B.S in Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences as a Grace Jordan McFadden Fellow under Lucia Pirisi at the University of South Carolina.

During his doctoral training Dr. Woappi grew a strong interest in understanding the mechanisms of epithelial regeneration and established the 3D skin spheroid plasticity assay, a high throughput cell culture method for patterning epithelial regenerative plasticity ex vivo. He later joined the Harvard Dermatology research program as a post-doctoral fellow, where he learned to use mouse as a model organism and developed an in vivo gene-editing platform to study the genetic alterations driving diseases of the stratified epithelium.

Dr. Woappi was recipient of the 2019 Engineering The Genome Keystone award and was selected as a Rising Star in Biomedical Sciences by MIT, Cornell, and Columbia University. He was later awarded the NIGMS-MOSAIC K99/R00 Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to launch his independent research laboratory. Away from the bench, Dr. Woappi is an ardent proponent of inclusive excellence and served on the advisory committee for the NIH Continued Umbrella Research Experiences Program at Harvard Medical School.

Publications

मॉडल केराटिनसाइट स्टेम सेल प्लास्टिसिटी के लिए एक उच्च थ्रूपुट एपिडर्मल स्पेरोइड कल्चर सिस्टम की स्थापना

1Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, 2Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, 4Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 5Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 6Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina

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 Developmental Biology