Aric Frantz

Aric is a DVM/PhD combined degree candidate working jointly in our lab and Dr. Tim O'Brien's, focusing on cancer and stem cell biology. Aric grew up on a farm in northern Illinois, a short distance south of Rockford. After completing an undergrad in medical biology at Beloit College (Beloit, WI), he went to work in the lab of Dr. Anne I. Sperling at the University of Chicago. Employment as a technician in this lab was the result of four previous summers of Howard Hughes funded scholarship research split between the lab of Dr. Marc Roy at Beloit and Drs. Jean and Gjis VanSeventer at the University of Chicago. Research through the years has included Guinea Pig reproductive endocrinology, mouse models of airway inflammation (asthma), T- cell signaling, trafficking, and activation and most recently an investigation of canine stem cell (MAPC) in cardiac infarct. Aric is married to Jody Frantz, who has an MBA from the University of Chicago and investigates fraud for Larson Allen, LLP. They have two children, Meghan and Adelyn, a third child due in mid-July and two dogs Bailey and Sam. The whole crowd lives a bit south of the metro in the bustling metropolis of Hampton, MN. In 2009, Aric was awarded a prestigious Morris Animal Foundation Fellowship that will support his work on Chemotherapy Resistance by Cancer Stem Cells for three years.

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