Kelz, Max
Biomedical ScienceAnesthesia, Critical Care
Hematopoietic stem cell biology and gene therapy
My research focuses on palliative care, informed decision-making and racial disparities among patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease.
The Babushok Lab conducts basic and translational research to understand the fundamental mechanisms of how bone marrow can fail, how the failure of bone marrow can lead to pre-malignant genetic changes and myelodysplastic syndrome and leukemia, and what is the relationship between our immune system and the development of bone marrow failure and clonal hematopoiesis.
To study the structure and mechanism of macromolecular nanomachines directly inside cells.
To use advanced magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy methods to study patients with brain tumors.
Though millions of individuals are exposed to general anesthetics each year, the diverse molecular and neuronal mechanisms through which anesthetic drugs act to produce loss of consciousness are not fully understood.