(Philadelphia,
PA) - Rebecca G. Wells, MD, has joined the Department
of Medicine, division of Gastroenterology, at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as an Assistant
Professor. Dr. Wells also holds a secondary appointment
as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine.
Dr. Wells earned her BS degree in Molecular Biophysics
and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1983, and went
on to receive her MD from Johns Hopkins University in
1987. She performed her internship and residency in
Internal Medicine, and fellowship in Gastroenterology,
at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts. She
completed her postdoctoral fellowship at The Whitehead
Institute for Biomedical Research, also in Massachusetts.
Dr. Wells' research focuses on growth factor signaling
and the role of growth factors in liver fibrosis and
cirrhosis.
She is an associate member of the American College of
Physicians and a member of the American Society of Cell
Biology and the American Gastroenterological Association.
Dr. Wells is also a Medical Staff Physician at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania and is certified by
the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal
Medicine and Gastroenterology.
Dr. Wells has been invited to lecture many times, most
recently at the Gordon Conference on Proteoglycans on
the topic, "Betaglycan as a modulator of TGFß
signaling." She has authored or co-authored research
in peer-reviewed publications including the Journal
of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal
of Clinical Investigation, American Journal of Physiology,
Genomics, and Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences.
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