Megan Weivoda

Megan Weivoda, PhD

Periodontics and Oral Medicine
Research Interests:
The mechanisms by which multi-nucleated osteoclasts stimulate osteoblastic bone formation in order to identify therapeutic targets to promote bone formation in aging and cancer-induced bone disease.

Our lab profiles the mechanisms by which multi-nucleated osteoclasts stimulate osteoblastic bone formation in order to identify novel therapeutic targets to promote bone formation in aging and cancer-induced bone disease. We use cell culture and animal models to dissect out osteo-immunology signaling pathways differentially regulated in osteoclast resorption and stimulation of bone formation. We are working across disciplines (engineering, materials science, pharmacy, medicine) to develop novel tools to study resorption and single cell osteoclast dynamics.