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Farzad Esni, PhD
- Associate Professor of Surgery and Developmental Biology
Farzad Esni, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Division of Pediatric Surgery. He is a faculty member of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center as well as the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Esni earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Umea, Sweden, and received his Doctoral Degree at the Goteborg University, Sweden. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Esni is a strained developmental biologist. He has completed an important body of work that has established him as a recognized figure in the world of pancreatic development, regeneration, and cancer. His path breaking research has been the impetus to multiple secondary studies in laboratories nationwide as well as internationally, which have built upon Dr. Esni’s pioneering observations. He is specifically interested in studying the cross-talk between the endocrine and exocrine compartments in pancreatic regeneration and cancer.
Professional and Scientific Society Memberships
- Society for Developmental Biology, 2003-Present
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006-Present
- American Pancreatic Association, 2007-Present
- American Association for Cancer Reaserch, 2011-Present
Education & Training
- BS, Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden, 1991
- PhD, Developmental Biology, Umea University, Sweden, 2000
- Post-doctoral Fellowship in Pancreatic Development and Cancer, Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Selected Publications
Academic and Research Interests
- Pancreas
- Pancreatic Regeneration
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Beta-Cell Generation
- Beta-Cell Neogenesis
- Pancreatic Development