Department of Surgery Research Labs

The Department of Surgery is dedicated to furthering the disciplines in surgery for the benefit of our patients and their families. Our research teams, comprised of clinical and basic science faculty and research fellows, conduct research focused on developing innovative treatments. These are just a few of the many outstanding research groups working in our department:

• David M. Lubman Research Lab (Proteomics and Cancer Research)
• Transplantation Biology Program (Jeffery Platt, PhD and Marilla Cascalho, MD, PhD)
• Simeone Pancreatic Research Lab (Diane M. Simeone, MD)
• M-SCORE (Michigan Surgical Outcomes Research (John Birkmeyer, MD)
• Thoracic Surgery Cancer Biology Lab (David G. Beer, PhD)
• Westfall Research Lab (Cardiac Muscle Physiology)
• Cardioprotection Research Laboratory (Steven F. Bolling, MD)
• UMPIRE (UM Program for Injury Research and Education)
• Crash Response Training (Stewart C. Wang, MD, PhD)
• Artificial Heart Laboratory (Ravi K. Birla, PhD)
• Conrad Jobst Vascular Research Laboratory (Drs. Wakefield, Henke, Upchurch, Eliason, and Myers)
• Immunology and Immunotherapy (Pan Zheng and Yang Liu)
• Weiping Zou, MD, PhD Lab
• Teitelbaum Research Laboratory (Intestinal Failure)
• Michigan Hand Outcomes (Kevin C. Chung, MD)
• Muscle Mechanics Laboratory (Melanie Urbanchek, PhD)