The Welham Laboratory
Faculty > Nathan Welham
Nathan Welham
Instructor, Surgery, Clinical Sciences Center
welham@surgery.wisc.edu
Organ System/Disease Focus
Larynx and vocal folds, scarring and wound healing, tissue regeneration, proteomics
Aligned Research Focus
Tissue engineering of extracellular matrix, contribution of mesenchymal stem cells and fibrocytes to wound repair.
Research Description
We are interested in wound healing and tissue regeneration of the vocal folds, but are just beginning to branch into work involving stem cells. We have not yet published in this area.
We are currently conducting experiments looking at bone marrow derived cell migration to vocal fold injury sites using a chimeric animal model, characterization of side population cells we have identified in human vocal fold tissues, and circulating fibrocyte migration and differentiation at wound sites.