Bio

Dr. McCarthy earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in the Eberhart lab studying genetic predisposition in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder using zebrafish. He did his postdoctoral work in the Shivdasani lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston investigating mesenchymal-epithelial interactions driving stem cell homeostasis in the gut using mouse and in vitro organoids. As a new assistant professor in the Molecular Biomedical Sciences department, his lab will continue to study intestinal mesenchymal function in development, health, and disease.