Jeffrey M. Davidson

Dr. Davidson’s areas of expertise include animal models of tissue repair, gene therapy, and functional genomics, molecular and cellular biology of connective tissue, and wound healing. He has published more than 175 original articles and more than 40 book chapters and reviews on connective tissue biochemistry and the interplay of growth factors in wound healing. In addition to substantial support from industry, his federally funded research, which has been continuous since 1981, includes investigation of the role of growth factors in age- and diabetes-related healing defects, gene therapy of wounds, biomaterial-tissue interactions, and wound proteomics. He is a past president of the Wound Healing Society (WHS) and immediate past president of the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB). He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Associate Editor), Wounds, Matrix Biology, Wound Repair and Regeneration (Section Editor), the Wound Healing Yearbook (Section Editor), and the International Wound Journal. His professional positions prior to Vanderbilt were at the NHLBI with Ronald G Crystal (1978-81) and the University of Utah (1981-85). Jeff received his BS from Tufts (1963), an MS (1969), and a Ph.D. (1975) from Stanford.