Sarvetnick Lab


Nora Sarvetnick, PhD

Director, Nebraska Regenerative Medicine Project
Research Director, Surgery-Transplant
Professor, Department of Surgery

 
Dr. Brian Boerner, Endocrinology Researcher   

Brian Boerner, MD

Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine DEM (Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism)

Research Interest: Human pancreatic beta cell regeneration and flow cytometry analysis of human islets.

 


 Craig Boyer  

Craig Boyer, BS

Researcher

 


Caroline Day   

Caroline Day

Student Worker

     


Nick George   

Nicholas George, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellowship, Research Associate

Research Interest: Developmental pathways governing pancreas development and their potential usage in regenerative medicine.

 

Zach Guinn, BS

Research Technologist I

 




Virginia Hardie, MD

Surgery Resident/Researcher

Research Interest: Diabetic Wound Healing

 

 

 
 

Robert Harms, MS

Research Associate

Research Interest: Autoimmunity, NK Cell function and symbiosis

   

 


   

Hai Li Lang, MD

Researcher

Research Interest: Stem Cell Sheet for Pediatric Heart Valve Replacement

  


Victoria Lao   

Victoria Lao, MD/PhD

Visiting Research Associate (Surgery Resident at University of Washington, Seattle)

Research Interest: Cancer Epigenetics, DNA Damage and Repair, DNA Methylation Biomarkers  

 


   

Kristina Lorenzo - Arteaga, BA

Research Technologist II

 


Kamiya Mehla   

Kamiya Mehla, PhD

Research Associate

   

Yimin Sun, PhD

Research Associate

Research Interest: Hepatitis C and T cell therapy.

 



Matthew Wheeler

Matthew Wheeler, MD

Surgery Resident/Researcher

Research Interest: Short Bowel Syndrome and Mucosal Immunity

 

 

 Administration

 
 

 



Lauren Haglund, MBA, PHR

Project Associate

 

 
Kristin Watkins   

Kristin Watkins, MBA

Administrator