Dr. Piul Rabbani is an Assistant Professor in the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery as well as Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, at New York University School of Medicine. Her lab’s research program is focused on the identification of intercellular communication mechanisms that are deficient in chronic non-healing diabetic cutaneous wounds, with particular interest in compensating with mesenchymal progenitor cell populations. Dr. Rabbani’s lab is investigating extracellular vesicles as mediators of cellular conversation and exploring means of maximizing therapeutic potential of extracellular vesicles harvested from adult multipotent stromal cells. She is also involved in incorporating exosome-based approaches with biomaterials to develop translatable delivery vehicles. Dr. Rabbani did her post-doctoral work with Dr. Daniel Ceradini on multipotent stromal cells, their metabolic regulation, and application within diabetic wound healing. She did her graduate work with Dr. Mayumi Ito, investigating the co-regulation of melanocyte and hair follicle epithelial stem cells.