Dr. Valerie Horsley is an Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Associate Professor of Dermatology at Yale University. Her lab studies how adult stem cells within epithelial tissues maintain tissue homeostasis, wound healing and can contribute to cancer formation.

Her team’s latest paper in Cell Stem Cell finds that adipocytes near injured skin promote the release of lipids that are necessary for initiating inflammation after tissue injury and promoting repair.