Ryan McCarthy PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine (CDBRM) at the Seattle Children\u2019s Research Institute and a member of the University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology). Dr. McCarthy\u2019s primary research interest is to understand how cell identity and function is regulated, utilize this knowledge to understand development and disease, and apply this knowledge with the goal of generating liver cell therapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. McCarthy received his PhD from The University of Georgia where he studied transcriptional networks regulating secondary cell wall and wood formation under the mentorship of Zheng-Hua Ye PhD. He continued his training at MD Anderson Cancer Center as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Michelle Barton PhD, where he developed single cell methods for investigating lineage specification during human embryonic stem cell differentiation and investigated the role of p53 in differentiation. He completed additional postdoctoral work investigating mechanisms of heterochromatic repression and cell identity at The University of Pennsylvania in the laboratory of Ken Zaret PhD. In 2017, he received an NIH NIDDK K01 under the mentorship of Dr. Zaret. Dr. McCarthy joined the Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine in October 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ryan McCarthy PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine (CDBRM) at the Seattle Children\u2019s Research Institute and a member of the University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology). Dr. McCarthy\u2019s primary research interest is to understand how cell identity and function … <\/p>\n