Regenerative Biology

Principal Investigator: Kirsten Sadler Edepli

The Sadler Edepli Lab investigate how genomic and epigenetic regulation shapes development, regeneration, and disease. Using genomics, imaging, and animal models, they uncover the mechanisms that drive tissue repair, stress responses, and cancer, with a particular focus on liver regeneration.

Principal Investigator: Piergiorgio Percipalle

The Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology studies how nuclear architecture, chromatin organization, and epigenetic regulation shape cell identity and metabolic state. Its research focuses on understanding how disruptions to these processes alter gene expression and cellular function, contributing to cancer, metabolic disorders, and neurodevelopmental diseases.

The Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) at NYUAD has been a nexus for cutting-edge life science research in the United Arab Emirates for over a decade. With world-class facilities and resources at its disposal, the Center’s mission is to promote innovative advances in genomics and systems biology.

As part of its responsibilities at NYUAD, the Center fosters and promotes the university’s research and training missions, by allowing undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scientists to engage in cross-disciplinary research. It further assists researchers by providing them with advanced instrumentation and computational support to facilitate high-throughput data collection, visualization, and analysis. The NYUAD CGSB operates in partnership with its sister center, NYU Biology’s CGSB in New York, as part of an open organizational framework that drives forward transformative collaborative work across the globe, supported by joint technology and service platforms.