Dr. Rogers is a Professor at the University of Toronto (Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dept of Physiology) and Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. He graduated with his PhD from the University of Toronto. His thesis focused on early embryo development. He completed his Post Doc with Robert Casper (University of Toronto) developing cell therapies using umbilical cord blood cells to treat spinal cord injury, peripheral vascular disease and diabetic skin wounds.
Started at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute , Mt. Sinai Hospital in 2004 with a research focus on Stem Cells.
Dr. Rogers’ lab is focused on developing therapies three dimensional tissue culture systems to improve stem cell therapies. By combining stem cells with decellularized organs his aim is to advance studies on stem cell differentiation, cell-cell signaling and understanding the complex three-dimensional organization of cells into functional organs and tissues. Dr. Rogers is also the Scientific Founder of Insception Lifebank, a Stem Cell Bank Company.