Thomas Lozito, PhD

Dr. Thomas Lozito is currently an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC. Dr. Lozito received his Ph.D. in Stem Cell Biology at the Graduate Partnership Program University of Cambridge/NIH. His research studies limb and tail regeneration in salamanders and lizards with the long-term goal of developing strategies for improving mammalian regeneration. He is particularly interested in what accounts for divergent regenerative capabilities among vertebrates, and his lab at USC is one of the only labs in the world that studies both lizard and salamander tissue regeneration.

• Cellular and molecular determinants of amniote regenerative potentials.
  NIH · R35GM158081 · Sep 1, 2025 – Aug 31, 2030 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Why don?t lizards regenerate perfect tails like salamanders?
  NIH · R01GM115444 · May 1, 2016 – Dec 31, 2025 · Role: Principal Investigator

• Invited Speaker: Lizard Tail Regeneration As an Instructive Model of Enhanced Cartilage Healing Capabilities in an Adult Amniote” – International Society for Regenerative Biology ISRB Webinar on Reptile Regeneration (2/23/2024)
• Speaker, Genomes of Animals and Plants. “Lizard Tail Regeneration As an Instructive Model of Enhanced Healing Capabilities in an Adult Amniote” (10/1/2022)
• Speaker, Art Meets Science Symposium at MDIBL. “Tissue repair and epimorphic regeneration” (8/1/2022)
• Speaker, The International Society for Regenerative Biology Around the World Meeting, “Lizard Tail Regeneration As an Instructive Model of Enhanced Healing Capabilities in an Adult Amniote” (4/1/2022)
• Presented “Lizard tail regeneration involves matrix remodeling by macrophage-produced proteases” at the American Society of Matrix Biology (10/15/2021)

• Chuong, Cheng-Ming
• Chai, Yang
• Lieberman, Jay
• Crump, Gage
• Wang, Jeffrey
• Lien, Ching