Spotlight Article: Nerves and Vessels Talk to Each Other in HO Formation
The Levi laboratory in collaboration with the James laboratory is proud to present a publication in Bone Research (Nature) entitled “Neuron-to-vessel signaling is a required feature of aberrant stem cell commitment after soft tissue trauma.” In our previous work, we...
Spotlight Article: Nerves Talk in Post-Traumatic HO
The Levi laboratory is proud to present a publication in Nature Communications entitled "NGF-TrkA signaling dictates neural ingrowth and aberrant osteochondral differentiation after soft tissue trauma." Observations from developmental biology have previously clued in...
Lab Spotlight: Amanda Huber
Dr. Amanda Huber Ph.D. is from a small rural town in Northwest Ohio. She received her B.S. from Defiance College, Defiance Ohio. She began her graduate work at the University of Cincinnati in 2005, where she developed her love for all things immunology. In the lab of...
Lab Spotlight: Johanna Nunez
Dr. Johanna Nunez is one of the newest additions to the Levi Laboratory as one of the senior resident research fellows at UTSW. She is a Northern California native who attended the University of California, Davis for undergrad and earned her B.S. in Neurobiology,...
Lab Spotlight: Chase Pagani
Chase Pagani is a veteran of the Levi Laboratory and also one of the instrumental members, boots-on-the-ground, in facilitating the recent move from the University of Michigan to the UTSW campus. Fresh off a recent Young Investigator Award at ASBMR (one of the...
Spotlight Article:Abnormal Bone Formation After Trauma Regulated by Many Macrophage Types
The Levi laboratory is proud to present a publication in Nature Communications entitled "Regulation of heterotopic ossification by monocytes in a mouse model of aberrant wound healing." While experts suspected that heterotopic ossification was somehow linked to...
Spotlight Article: SWIR Imaging Proof of Concept for Assessing Burn Depth
The Levi laboratory is proud to announce a publication in Wound Repair and Regeneration entitled “Short Wave Infrared Light Imaging Measures Tissue Moisture and Distinguishes Superficial from Deep Burns.” We are excited to share a novel imaging modality that may be...
Spotlight Article: Critical macrophage involvement in post-traumatic muscle fibrosis
The Levi Laboratory is proud to announce a publication in The Journal of Immunology entitled "Tuning Macrophage Phenotype to Mitigate Skeletal Muscle Fibrosis." Based on clinical observations of post-traumatic muscular fibrosis, we developed and validated a novel...
Spotlight Article: Vascular Regulation of Post-traumatic Heterotopic Ossification
In a cumulative and collaborative effort spanning several years, Dr. Levi's laboratory is proud to announce a publication in Bone Research (a subsidiary of Nature) entitled "Mesenchymal VEGFA induces aberrant differentiation in heterotopic ossification." Based on...
#HAILtotheFrontLine Virtual 5K Fundraising
The Levi Lab is participating in the #HailtotheFrontLine Virtual 5K to help fundraise for the COVID-19 Philanthropic Fund. This will assist in bolstering and accelerating Michigan Medicine's efforts during this crisis. Everyone on our "team" is participating in the...