Dr. Robert Schwartz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology, Biophysics, Systems Biology, & Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University, NY
Seminar Title: Leveraging Bioengineered and Primary Tissues to Study Human Liver Diseases
Host: Paul Monga, MD
Dr. Schwartz completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His thesis work was on the derivation of stem cell derived hepatocytes and in vitro liver model systems. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital. His fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology with a focus on hepatology was completed at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He did a postdoc at MIT in the laboratory of Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia. His research continued to focus on the development of stem cell derived hepatocytes as a model system to study human liver disease and for clinical therapy. In his own lab at Weill Cornell Medical College his lab has focused on the development of new platforms for hepatocyte study and to build and translate ideas and discoveries in the laboratory to the clinic. His work has involved the development of new stem cell techniques and model systems with the goal to better understand human infectious and metabolic diseases and the early stages of hepatocarcinogenesis.
