Chad Vezina
Position title: Professor, Department Chair, Comparative Biosciences
Email: cmvezina@wisc.edu
Phone: Prostate disease
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Education
B.A. 1998 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Ph.D. 2003 University of New York -Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Postdoctoral position 2009 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
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Research Focus
The Vezina lab uses the fetal mouse prostate as a model system to elucidate prostate growth stimulatory and inhibitory signals and investigate interactions between them in clinically relevant models of prostate disease. Our ultimate goal is to identify new pharmacological targets for prostate disease intervention. We are investigating how male hormones initiate prostate ductal formation, how prostate ducts elongate into surrounding mesenchyme, and how both of these processes are patterned in three dimensions to give rise to a bilaterally symmetrical prostate gland comprised of anterior dorsal, lateral, and ventral lobes.
Program Activities
- Joined ERP Program: 2010
- ERP T32 Faculty Trainer
Trainees
No current ERP students
Past ERP students
- Marcela Ambrogi, PhD ’24