Research

Office Address:  
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA  17033

Office Phone: 717-531-1019
Office Fax:     717-531-4339
Email: pehrlich@psu.edu

Research Interests

• Wound repair
• Fibrosis

1964  B.S.    University of California at Berkeley
1970  Ph.D.  University of California at San Francisco

1971-1973    NIH-Traineeship, Departments of Biochemistry and 
                   Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1973-1975    British-American Heart Research Fellow, Strangeways
                   Research Laboratory, Cambridge, England
1977-1981    Established Investigator of the American Heart Association

Selected Publications

1. Ehrlich HP, Keefer KA, Maish, III GO, Myers RL, Mackay DR. The Increased Gain in Wound Breaking Strength Associated with More Uniform Deposited Collagen Fiber
2. Ehrlich HP, KA Keefer, RI Myers, A Passaniti. 1999 Wound contraction, vanadate and myofibroblasts. Arch Surg 134:494 – 501.
3. Boemi LB, Allison GM, Graham WP, Ehrlich HP. 1999 Differences between scar and skin cultured fibroblasts derived from a patient with recurrent abdominal incision wound herniation Plast Reconstrut Surg 104:1397-1405.
4. Ehrlich HP, Gabbiani G, Meda P 2000 Cell coupling, CX 43 expression and fibroblast populated collagen lattice contraction. J Cell Physiol 184:86-92.
5. Saba AA, Freedman BM, Gaffield JW, Mackay DR, Ehrlich HP. Topical platelet derived growth factor enhances wound closure in the absence of wound contraction:  An experimental and clinical study. (accepted Ann Plast Surg)
6. Moyer KE, Banducci DR, Graham, III, WP, Ehrlich HP. Dupuytren's Disease: Changes in Nodule and Cord Fibroblast Physiology Through In Vitro Aging. J Plast Reconst Surg. (accepted)
7. Moyer KE, Davis A, Saggars GC, Mackay DR, Ehrlich HP.  Wound Healing:  The Role of Gap Junctional Communications in Rat Granulation Tissue Maturation.  Exp Mol Path (in press)