Research Areas

Cindy believes that including graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and residents on collaborative teams ensures that the projects will be successful, both in terms of research productivity and educational goals. She is passionate about bringing research from bench discovery through the marketplace and finally to the clinic. Toward that end, her team is currently exploring use of tissue regeneration techniques to restore salivary glands lost to patients after radiation for head/neck cancer, resulting in severe xerostomia (dry mouth).