The Stem Cell Program is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Fernando Camargo to its Faculty.

Dr. Camargo has done exciting work on the Hippo pathway and stem cell biology, aand more recently on how organ size is regulated in the vertebrate. Examination of the linkage between the control of organ size regulation and stem cell activity will be a major focus of his work at Children's.

Dr. Camargo received his PhD from Baylor College of Medicine,where he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Margaret Goodell. After completing his PhD he was selected for appointment to the prestigious Whitehead Fellows Program, where he established his own lab. Dr. Camargo has received a Joint Appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Children's Hospital, Principal Investigator on the Stem Cell Program, and Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Rengerative Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has also been elected a a Principal Member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.