Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty
Dr. Davis holds the William & Marilyn Conner Chair and the director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine as well as the Center for Cardiovascular Biology. She is internationally recognized for her expertise in the fields of striated muscle physiology and more recently fibroblast biology. She has pioneered mouse genetic and genome-wide screening approaches to study the role of fibroblasts in vivo, which underlies her research group’s focus on identifying the physiologic tenets of fibroblast biology, the mechanistic underpinnings cardiac muscle and fibrotic remodeling, and how the collective interactions between cardiac cells regulate heart disease and recovery. In 2014 Dr. Davis received the Louis N. & Arnold M. Katz Basic Cardiovascular Science Research prize from the American Heart Association followed by the Janice Pfeffer Distinguished Lectureship from the International Society for Heart Research in 2023. Her research program has been continually supported by the National Institute of Health and American Heart Association. It has also led to more than 50 publications in top tier journals including Science, Cell, Cell Stem Cell, and Circulation.
