Tracy Criswell

Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Dr. Tracy Criswell is an Assistant Professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine with cross appointments in Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology, Molecular Medicine and Translational Science and the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Science. She received her Bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Cincinnati in 1998 (Magna Cum Laude) and her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular bases of disease from Case Western Reserve University in 2004. Her thesis work focused on identifying the cellular effects of low dose ionizing radiation exposure on breast cancer. After the completion of her Ph.D., Dr. Criswell joined the laboratory of Dr. Carlos Arteaga at Vanderbilt University where her research focused on the role of TGFβ signaling in breast cancer metastases. In 2009, she joined the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine as a senior research fellow and was subsequently promoted to a faculty position in 2012.