The Saupe Laboratory
Faculty > Kurt W. Saupe
Kurt W. Saupe
Kurt W. Saupe
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Physiology
kws@medicine.wisc.edu
Organ System/Disease Focus: Cardiac
Aligned Research Focus: Mammary stem cells, mouse mammary tumor models, Wnt signaling, Syndecan-1
Research Description
Our laboratory studies the effects of aging on resident progenitor cells in the heart and adipose tissue. This includes evaluating how interventions such as diet and exercise affect the number and important characteristics of resident progenitor cells in the heart and adipose tissue.