Cell & Stem Cell Research

Thomas Andl obtained his PhD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and extended his training in squamous epithelia and hair follicle biology at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University. He established mouse models to study BMP, Wnt and microRNA signaling and is interested in how squamous epithelia such as the epidermis or the oral mucosa are maintained under normal conditions and how these epithelia responds to stress, infection and carcinogenesis. His main focus is on the putative stem cells in these tissues and how they are organized, maintained, transformed into cancer and are responding to challenges.