Lab Fellow

2008-2010
Email Address: Chadwick.Wu@uphs.upenn.edu

Is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley and Vanderbilt School of Medicine, and current General Surgery Resident at the University of Pennsylvania with an interest in Plastic Surgery. His projects include looking at novel therapy for impaired wound healing and studying in utero gene therapy for Cleft Palate. He is happy to answer questions and may be contacted at Chadwick.Wu@uphs.upenn.edu.

Honors and Awards

  • 1998 Golden Key International Honor Society
  • 2000 Phi Beta Kappa
  • 2009 First Place Best Paper Presented at the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery in Philadelphia, PA
  • 2010 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons - 1st Place Poster presentation
  • 2010 67th Annual Meeting of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association - Paul W. Black Junior Investigator Award for best paper

Research:

  • Wu C, Radecki MA, Lakin GE, Salhab I, Flake AW, Kirschner RE, Nah HD. Intra-amniotic Delivery of an Adenoviral Vector Expressing TGFΒ3 Rescues Palatal Fusion Defect in TGFΒ3 Null Mice. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, February 2, 2009.
  • Wu C, Yang BH, Lakin GE, Radecki MA, Kirschner RE, Nah, HD. IRF6 as a Downstream Effector of TGFΒ3 Signaling in Palatogenesis: In Utero Somatic Delivery of Ad-IRF6 Rescues the Palatal Fusion Defect in TGFΒ3-/- Mice. Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Charleston, SC, September 23-27, 2009.
  • Wu C, Lakin GE, Yang BH, Salhab I, Kirschner RE, Nah HD. IRF6 As a Downstream Effector of TGFΒ3 Signaling in Palatogenesis: In Utero Somatic Delivery of Ad-IRF6 Rescues the Palatal Fusion Defect in TGFΒ3-/- Mice. Presented at the XIII Biennial International Congress of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery, Oxford, UK, September 26-30, 2009.
  • Wu C, Yang BH, Salhab I, Kirschner RE, Nah HD. IRF6 as a Downstream Effector of TGFΒ3 Signaling in Palatogenesis: In Utero Somatic Delivery of Ad-IRF6 Rescues the Palatal Fusion Defect in TGFΒ3 KO Mice. Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, Fort Worth, TX, March 16-20, 2010.
  • Wu C, Yang BH, Salhab I, Kirschner RE, Nah HD. In Utero Transduction of TGFΒ3-/- Mouse Palatal Epithelium with IRF6 Alters Peridermal Cell Phenotype and Rescues Palatal Fusion Defect. Presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, San Antonio, TX, March 20-23, 2010.