Amy Jo Wagers BA, PhD

Amy Wagers received her Ph.D. in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Northwestern University in 1999 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Irving Weissman at Stanford University School of Medicine. In May 2004, she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and an Investigator at the Joslin Diabetes Center. In 2008, she moved to Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and in 2012 became the Forst Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.

Dr. Wagers is co-chair of HSCRB, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist, and a recipient of a 2018 NIH Pioneer Awards for "High-Risk, High-Reward Research". She has received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, the Smith Family New Investigator Award, and the Keck Foundation Young Scholars Award.

Dr. Wagers seeks to change the way we repair our tissues after an injury. Her laboratory's research focuses on defining the factors and mechanisms that regulate the migration, expansion, and regenerative potential of adult blood-forming and muscle-forming stem cells.