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Margaret H. Baron

Margaret H. Baron
Margaret H.
Baron
M.D., Ph.D.
Fishberg Professor of Medicine
Hematology-Oncology Research
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Director
margaret.baron@mssm.edu

Professor Baron's laboratory is interested in research related to:  development of the hematopoietic and vascular systems of the mouse embryo; regulation of stem cell proliferation, survival, and differentiation; gene regulation during development; development and differentiation of the primitive and definitive endodermal lineages; and modulation of postnatal and adult hematopoietic and vascular development.

Select Publications: 

Isern, J., Fraser, S.T., He, Z. and Baron, M.H. (2008) The fetal liver is a niche for maturation of primitive erythroid cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105, 6662-6667. [Also see "This Week in PNAS/In This Issue"]

Durand, C., Robin, C., Bollerot, K. Baron, M.H., Ottersbach, K., and Dzierzak, E. (2007) Embryonic stromal clones reveal developmental regulators of definitive hematopoietic stem cells.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104: 20838-20843.

Haremaki, T., Fraser, S.T., Kuo, Y.M., Baron, M.H., and Weinstein, D.C. (2007).  Vertebrate Ctr1 coordinates morphogenesis and progenitor cell fate and regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104: 12029-12034.