Terren Niethamer is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine. She previously was a K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Edward Morrisey at the University of Pennsylvania. She is fascinated by endothelial cell biology in the lung. How do endothelial cells communicate with other cells in the alveolus, the structural unit of gas exchange in the lung, to facilitate morphogenesis of complex three-dimensional structures during development and regeneration?

The Niethamer lab's research focuses on this question using advanced transcriptomics, imaging, mouse genetics, and human ex vivo tissue culture to interrogate cell-cell communication, developmental morphogenesis, and regenerative biology in the lung.