Esther Camp
I am a developmental and cell biologist with over 10 years of national and international postdoctoral experience in the field or transgenesis and the study of molecular mechanisms, which control embryonic and mesenchymal stem cell migration, proliferation and differentiation. I have considerable experience with various animal models investigating molecular mechanisms in early embryo development, cardiac development, skeletal bone remodelling, cranial bone development and bone pathologies. My current work is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms that control mesenchymal stem/progenitor cell (MSC) proliferation and differentiation during skeletal bone remodelling and cranial development. The projects that I coordinates include: investigating the role of the transcription factor Twist-1 and microRNAs in bone marrow and cranium derived MSC, a pre-clinical trial of novel therapeutics to treat cranial bone defects and the development of novel treatments for osteosarcoma. This work could potentially translate into alternative treatments for patients with bone related diseases, such as craniosynostosis and osteosarcoma
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