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

  • 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

Publications:

  • Wu C, Radecki A, 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 disease models. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery in Philadelphia, PA, February 2, 2009.
  • Lakin GE*, Wu C*, Salhab I, Zajac A, Traas J, Dienno JJ, Davis P, Bergelson JM, Zoltick PW, Kirschner RE, Nah HD. Overexpression of IRF6 in the Medial Edge Epithelium of Embryonic Palatal Shelves Rescues the Fusion Defect in a TGF-b3-/- Mouse Palate in Organ Culture. (Manuscript in preparation) *These two authors contributed equally to this work.