Joseph Anthony Madri MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology; Director of Education

Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology

Yale Medical Group

Stem Cell Center, Yale: Stem Cell Niche and Homing

Signal Transduction

Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program

Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale

Pathology: Autopsy | Surgical Pathology | Pathology Research

Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center

T32 Mentors

Research Interests

Connective tissue disorders; Cell-Matrix and Cell-Cell Interactions; Integrin-Mediated Signaling; Cardio-vascular development; Angiogenesis and Vascular Biology; inflammation; T-cell-Endothelial cell interactions

Clinical Interests

cardiovascular development; effects of premature birth on brain development; connective tissue disorders; autoimmune diseases - specifically multiple sclerosis; effects of maternal diabetes on offspring

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Education

Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine , 1973
M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine , 1975

Selected Publication

Ford, M.C., Bertram, J.P., Hynes, S.R., Michaud, M., Li, Q., Young, M., Segal, S.S., Madri, J.A., Lavik, E.B., A novel macroporous hydrogel for the culture of neural progenitor and endothelial cells to form functional vascular networks in vivo, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 103 (8):2512-2517, 2006.

Latest Honor and Recognition

NIH MERIT Award(1999) , NIH

Articles

Autumn 2007

The gospel according to Langer

Three Yale faculty members learned bioengineering by working alongside a legendary MIT professor who believes in...

A link between sugar and heart defects

It’s a heart-rending legacy: mothers who have uncontrolled diabetes during pregnancy are three times more likely to...

Tissue engineering takes a leap forward with new scaffold design

Tissue engineering began in the late 1980s to fill a gap in the treatment of certain diseases—those for which...