Joshua Maxwell, PhD

Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)

Josh Maxwell is an Assistant Professor at WFIRM. He graduated from Allegheny College in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. Josh then received his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Physiology in 2010 from Loyola University Medical Center in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology studying the IP3 receptor in cardiac tissues. Dr. Maxwell then went on to post-doc with Dr. Lothar Blatter at Rush University Medical Center studying intracellular calcium handling, heart failure, and arrhythmogenesis. He then moved to Emory University in 2014 where he began studying cardiac regenerative medicine. Josh recently moved to WFIRM in August 2021 where he continues his pioneering work developing stem cell-based approaches for heart failure.