GBS Affiliated Faculty
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Biochemistry & Structural Biology (BSB)
- Dr. Anupam Agarwal - Mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Patricia Aguilar Calvo - Glycosaminoglycans involvement in the pathology of prions
- Dr. Shama Ahmad - Mechanisms of cardiopulmonary toxicity of inhaled agents
- Dr. Steve Aller - Understanding structure & function of membrane proteins (XRC & cryo-EM)
- Dr. Sen Arko - Discovery of non-coding driver mutations in pediatric cancers.
- Dr. Shannon Bailey - Liver physiology & pathophysiology, energy metabolism, circadian biology
- Dr. Jarrod Barnes - How metabolic dysregulation impacts glycosylation and pulmonary disease
- Dr. David Bedwell -Approaches to suppress nonsense mutations to treat genetic diseases
- Dr. Susan Bellis - Cancer cell biology, mouse models of cancer, and tumor immunology
- Dr. Sushant Bhatnagar - Type 2 Diabetes, Islet Biology, Insulin Secretion, GPCR signaling
- Dr. Mary-Ann Bjornsti - Cancer therapeutics, DNA topoisomerases, SUMO conjugation, yeast genetics
- Dr. Subhashini Bolisetty - Inflammatory and repair mechanisms during acute kidney injury
- Dr. Jianzhong Chen - Lipidomics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, vision science, body fluids
- Dr. Shu Chen - Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer's disease, prion disease
- Dr. Yabing Chen - Translational research on cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Igor Chesnokov - DNA replication and cell cycle progression in eukaryotes. Cytokinesis.
- Dr. Gino Cingolani - Nucleocytoplasmic Transport; TDP-43 proteinopathies; Bacterial viruses
- Dr. Louise Chow - Patholobiology of human papillomaviruses and drug discovery
- Dr. Constanza Cortes Rodriguez - Novel mechanisms of healthy brain aging and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. Lisa Curtis - The effect of sex and age on cellular mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Randall Davis - Cellular/molecular immunology; malig hematology (leukemia/lymphoma/myeloma)
- Dr. Champion Deivanayagam - Structural biology study of microbial virulence factors
- Dr. Jessy Deshane - Immune regulation of asthma and lung cancer, Immuneregulation by microbiota
- Dr. Terje Dokland - Virus and bacteriophage structure and assembly, cryo-electron microscopy
- Dr. Vikas Dudeja - Pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
- Dr. Amit Gaggar - Research focuses on the impact of proteases/antiproteases in lung disease
- Dr. Remo George - Use of sodium iodide symporter for cancer molecular imaging and therapy
- Dr. Michael Gray - Bacterial oxidative / starvation stress response, host-microbe interactions
- Dr. Todd Green - Viral replication and autobodies related to IgA nephopathy
- Dr. Alecia Gross - Molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and retinal degenerations
- Dr. Rafael Grytz - Ocular biomechanics including growth and remodeling mechanisms in the eye
- Dr. Kirk Habegger - Neuroendocrine regulation of energy, glucose and lipid metabolism
- Dr. Kevin Harrod - Influenza pathogenesis, genetics and secondary infections
- Dr. John Hartman - Yeast phenomic models of human disease
- Dr. Quamarul Hassan - Chromatin Remodeling, non-coding RNA, transcription regulation, and bone formation
- Dr. Hui Hu - T cell differentiation, humoral responses, memory, infection, vaccines
- Dr. Chad Hunter - Transcriptional regulation of metabolic tissue development and function
- Dr. Amjad Javed - Genetic Control of Skeletogenesis During Development, Aging, and Disease
- Dr. Mythreye Karthikeyan - Growth factor signaling and matrix remodeling in tumor metastasis
- Dr. Nathalia Kedishvili - Bioactive vitamin A synthesis and signaling in health and disease
- Dr. Kim Keeling - Finding new treatment options for rare genetic diseases
- Dr. Eugenia Kharlampieva - Polymers for drug delivery and regenerative medicine
- Dr. Suzanne Lapi - Development of new molecular imaging agents for oncology
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Elliot Lefkowitz - Microbial genomics and evolution; microbiome and disease; bioinformatics
- Dr. Andre Leier - Computational Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, Mutation-Directed Therapeutics
- Dr. Nicholas Lennemann - RNA virus-host interactions, flaviviruses, enteroviruses, coronaviruses
- Dr. Steve Lim - Integrin and ECM signaling in vascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Gang Liu - Lung injury, repair, inflammation, macrophage, cellular metabolism, ncRNA
- Dr. Rui Lu - Genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation, stem cells, cancer, drug discovery
- Dr. Farah Lubin - Epigenetics of memory formation and dysregulation with cognitive disorders
- Dr. Aaron Lucius - Mechanisms of transcription catalyzed by RNA Pol I and SARS-CoV-2 nsp12
- Dr. Bernadette Marquez-Nostra - New and innovative methods for imaging cancer
- Dr. William Marsiglia - Chemical/structural biology, protein-protein interactions, drug discovery
- Dr. Alexa Mattheyses - Super-resolution microscopy to study cellular architecture and dynamics
- Dr. Heinrich Matthies - Dopamine in the nervous system; role in drug addiction autism
- Dr. Girish Melkani - Circadian/metabolic disorders linked to cardiac, muscle, sleep, and aging
- Dr. Tony Merriman - The genetic basis of gout; Epidemiology and pathogenic pathways
- Dr. Kasturi Mitra - Role of mitochondria in health and disease, with focus on cancer and aging
- Dr. James Mobley - Clinical proteomics, biomarker discovery, informatics
- Dr. Moon Nahm - Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis, capsules, infections, and vaccines
- Dr. Michael Niederweis - Outer membrane proteins and their role in tuberculosis pathogenesis
- Dr. John Parant - p53, genomic instability, tumor suppression, and modeling human diseases
- Dr. Rakesh Patel - Redox biology, inflammation, cardio-pulmonary, translational, glycobiology
- Dr. Chad Petit - Structure and functional mechanisms that underlie influenza pathogenesis
- Dr. William Placzek - Apoptosis regulation, chemoresistance, and anti-cancer target validation
- Dr. Peter Prevelige * - Virus structure and assembly
- Dr. S. Vamsee Raju - Novel pharmacologic approaches to treat muco-obstructive airways disease
- Dr. Sasanka Ramanadham - Lipid signaling and T1D and bone formation
- Dr. Matthew Renfrow - Protein glycosylation in the context of disease
- Dr. Joshua Richman - Applied biostatistics
- Dr. Erik Roberson - Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dr. Steven Rowe - Correction of CFTR function to treat CF; Acquired CFTR dysfunction in COPD
- Dr. Tom Ryan - Sickle Cell Anemia, Thalassemia, Stem Cells, Mouse Models, Hb Switching
- Dr. Jamil Saad - Biological mechanisms in virology
- Dr. David Schneider - Define the molecular mechanisms that govern eukaryotic gene expression
- Dr. Rosa Serra - Skeletal development and disease
- Dr. Bingdong Sha - Protein folding and transport; ER stress, molecular chaperones
- Dr. Jasvinder Singh - Outcomes research
- Dr. Keshav Singh - Mitochondrial genetics, cancer genetics, cancer health disparities
- Dr. Barry Sleckman - Developmental Immunology, DNA double strand break repair, genome stability
- Dr. Daniel Smith - Nutrition, Aging, Body Composition, Metabolism, Chronic Disease, Genetics
- Dr. Yuhua Song - Integrated computational and experimental study; breast cancer, Alzheimer’s
- Dr. Zhangli Su - Molecular mechanism of RNA modifications in cancers by novel genomics tools
- Dr. Alex Szalai - Innate immunity, and how it regulates and subverts adaptive immunity
- Dr. Elizabeth Sztul - Molecular mechanisms regulating membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells
- Dr. Anna Thalacker-Mercer - Nutrient and metabolic determinants of muscle regeneration and atrophy
- Dr. Sunnie Thompson - DNA and RNA Virus host interactions, translational control, and cancer
- Dr. Summer Thyme - Zebrafish, neurodevelopment, schizophrenia, autism, genetics, drug screens
- Dr. Charles Turnbough - Bacterial gene regulation/Structure and function of B. anthraces spores
- Dr. Erwin Van Meir - Cancer biology and signaling; Neuro-Onc; Drug discovery; tumor suppression
- Dr. Robert van Waardenburg - DNA repair, structure-function, modification, biochemistry, genetics, drug dev
- Dr. Dario Vitturi - Immunomodulatory and pro-homeostatic redox signaling by electrophiles
- Dr. Laura Volpicelli-Daley - Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementias
- Dr. Jacques Wadiche - Fundamental properties of synaptic transmission
- Dr. Mark Walter - Structure, biochemistry, and function of cytokines involved in viral pathogenesis and autoimmunity
- Dr. Fengbin (Jerry) Wang - Use cryo-EM to understand and design large assemblies
- Dr. Yuchen Wang - Molecular mechanism underlying synapse formation and function
- Dr. Amy Weinmann - T cell differentiation, epigenetics, gene expression, metabolism, genomics
- Dr. Christopher Willey - Cancer biology, signal transduction, advanced patient-derived models
- Dr. Scott Wilson - Regulation of peripheral nerve myelination
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Jia Xu - Understanding cancer development driven by genetic mutations in patients and developing novel therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment.
- Dr. Eddy Yang - Experimental therapeutics, DNA damage and repair, immunotherapy
- Dr. Brad Yoder - Primary cilia function, in vivo imaging, and cystic kidney disorders
- Dr. Karina Yoon - "Mechanism-based therapeutic strategies, mechanisms of tumor progression
- Dr. Martin Young - Circadian regulation of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
- Dr. Jun Zhang - RNA splicing, phase separation, NMR dynamics
- Dr. Yang Zhou - Molecular mechanisms that define cardiac lineage identity
- Dr. Jaroslaw Zmijewski - Metabolism, Sepsis, Lung injury, repair and regeneration, Lung fibrosis
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Cancer Biology (CANB)
- Dr. Erin Eun-Young Ahn - RNA regulation and epigenetics in hematopoiesis, leukemia and brain tumors
- Dr. Hope Amm - Translational research for oral tumor therapies and diagnostics
- Dr. Rebecca Arend - Personalized medicine, targeting the Wnt pathway, and immunotherapy
- Dr. Sen Arko - Discovery of non-coding driver mutations in pediatric cancers.
- Dr. Scott Ballinger - Mitochondrial biology and genetics. Cardiometabolic disease and metabolism
- Dr. Elizabeth Beierle - Signal transduction pathways in pediatric solid tumors
- Dr. Susan Bellis - Cancer cell biology, mouse models of cancer, and tumor immunology
- Dr. Ravi Bhatia - Normal and leukemia stem cell biology, microenvironment, drug resistance
- Dr. Mary-Ann Bjornsti - Cancer therapeutics, DNA topoisomerases, SUMO conjugation, yeast genetics
- Dr. Markus Bredel - Research on brain cancer
- Dr. Elizabeth Brown - B cell hematologic malignancies, autoimmune disease, genetic epidemiology
- Dr. Angela Carter - Microbes as modulators of physiology and potential biotherapeutics
- Dr. Pi-Ling Chang - Rexinoids, vitamin D, cancer therapeutics, role of SPP1 in tumorigenesis
- Dr. Bo-Ruei Chen - DNA double strand break repair pathway choice and response; gene targeting
- Dr. Herb Chen - Notch Signaling in Neuroendocrine Cancer
- Dr. Jake Chen - Bioinformatics, genomic big data, AI and machine learning in healthcare
- Dr. Yabing Chen - Translational research on cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Louise Chow - Patholobiology of human papillomaviruses and drug discovery
- Dr. Gino Cingolani - Nucleocytoplasmic Transport; TDP-43 proteinopathies; Bacterial viruses
- Dr. Andrea Comba - Brain tumors heterogeneity, invasion and therapeutics resistance
- Dr. Rafael Contreras - Understanding the function of Centromeres, Telomeres, and repetitive DNA
- Dr. Tatjana Coric - Malignant transformation, chemoprevention, ncRNAs, high-throughput screening
- Dr. Randall Davis - Cellular/molecular immunology; malig hematology (leukemia/lymphoma/myeloma)
- Dr. Jessy Deshane - Immune regulation of asthma and lung cancer, Immuneregulation by microbiota
- Dr. Han-Fei Ding - Epigenetic regulation and therapeutic targeting of cancer metabolism
- Dr. Vikas Dudeja - Pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
- Dr. Xu Feng - Role and Signaling mechanism RANKL in bone biology and cancer development
- Dr. Natalie Gassman - Modulation of metabolism and DNA repair pathways by environmental exposures
- Dr. Fred Goldman - Gene therapy- sickle cell ds, pathogenesis of bone marrow failure syndromes
- Dr. Romi Gupta - Genomic & Targeted-Approaches for Cancer Gene & Therapeutic Target Discovery
- Dr. Karin Hardiman - Therapeutic resistance and metastasis in colorectal cancer
- Dr. John Hartman - Yeast phenomic models of human disease
- Dr. Blake Hildreth - Genetic and therapeutic targeting of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer
- Dr. Anita Hjelmeland - Brain tumor cell signaling and biology, tumor environment, stem cells
- Dr. Chen Huang - Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Precision Oncology
- Dr. Hui Hu - T cell differentiation, humoral responses, memory, infection, vaccines
- Dr. Amjad Javed - Genetic Control of Skeletogenesis During Development, Aging, and Disease
- Dr. Masakazu Kamata - Immunotherapy for HIV and cancer, Nanomedicine, Therapy for brain diseases
- Dr. Mythreye Karthikeyan - Growth factor signaling and matrix remodeling in tumor metastasis
- Dr. Nathalia Kedishvili - Bioactive vitamin A synthesis and signaling in health and disease
- Dr. Peter King - RNA regulation in neuroinflammation, ALS and glioblastoma
- Dr. Christopher Klug - Hematopoietic stem cell biology, acute leukemia, pancreatic cancer
- Dr. Bruce Korf - Neurofibromatosis- research, clinical care, advocacy and education
- Dr. Benjamin Larimer - Development of Targeted Biological Agents for Cancer Treatment and Imaging
- Dr. Brittany Lasseigne - Genetics and genomics of human diseases (wet and dry lab approaches)
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Andre Leier - Computational Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, Mutation-Directed Therapeutics
- Dr. Steve Lim - Integrin and ECM signaling in vascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Runhua (Runa) Liu - Cancer genetics, cancer cell biology, and targeted therapy
- Dr. Rui Lu - Genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation, stem cells, cancer, drug discovery
- Dr. Frances Lund - B cell differentiation; autoimmunity; vaccines; infectious disease; cancer
- Dr. Upender Manne - Cancer cell biology, genetics, molecular biomarkers, racial disparity
- Dr. James Markert - Immune response of oncolytic Herpes Virus on glioma- translational
- Dr. Bernadette Marquez-Nostra - New and innovative methods for imaging cancer
- Dr. William Marsiglia - Chemical/structural biology, protein-protein interactions, drug discovery
- Dr. Ksenia Matlawska-Wasowska -Leukemia cell biology, leukemia infiltration into the CNS, stromal and immune microenvironment in leukemia progression and dissemination
- Dr. Alexa Mattheyses - Super-resolution microscopy to study cellular architecture and dynamics
- Dr. Jonathan McConathy - Positron emission tomography for oncology and neuroimaging
- Dr. Braden McFarland - Neuro-oncology, brain cancer, immunotherapy, microbiome
- Dr. C. Ryan Miller - Glioma pathogenesis using genetic mouse models and genomics/proteomics
- Dr. Kasturi Mitra - Role of mitochondria in health and disease, with focus on cancer and aging
- Dr. Louis (Burt) Nabors - Post-transcriptional regulation of RNA during gliomagenesis
- Dr. Rajasekaran Namakkal Soorappan - Nrf2/Redox signaling, proteotoxicity, aging & genetics of cardiac diseases
- Dr. Lyse Norian - Diet and obesity affect immunity to tumors
- Dr. Jan Novak - Glycobiology in health and disease
- Dr. John Parant - p53, genomic instability, tumor suppression, and modeling human diseases
- Dr. Neil Pfister - Cancer metabolism; mitochondria; electron transport chain; cell fate; DNA damage repair; bioinformatics
- Dr. William Placzek - Apoptosis regulation, chemoresistance, and anti-cancer target validation
- Dr. Selvarangan Ponnazhagan - Cancer therapeutics, metastasis, breast and prostate cancers, immunotherapy
- Dr. Troy Randall - Local immune responses to viruses, allergens, autoantigens and tumors
- Dr. Bin Ren - Epigenetics in heart & vascular disease, cancer, diabetes and cognition
- Dr. J. Bart Rose - Novel therapies for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and adenocarcinomas
- Dr. Rajeev Samant - Developmental and stress signaling,metastasis, RNA Biology, mouse models
- Dr. Ralph Sanderson - Heparanase regulation of tumor progression and metastasis
- Dr. Ankur Saxena - Neurogenesis in the context of development, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. David Schneider - Define the molecular mechanisms that govern eukaryotic gene expression
- Dr. Palaniappan Sethu - Human tissue chip models of organs and tissue
- Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant - Dynamics of interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironment
- Dr. Gene Siegal * - Tumor invasion and metastasis, bone neoplasia, viro and gene therapy
- Dr. Jasvinder Singh - Outcomes research
- Dr. Keshav Singh - Mitochondrial genetics, cancer genetics, cancer health disparities
- Dr. Barry Sleckman - Developmental Immunology, DNA double strand break repair, genome stability
- Dr. Yuhua Song - Integrated computational and experimental study; breast cancer, Alzheimer’s
- Dr. Anna Sorace - Cancer imaging, drug delivery, tumor microenvironment,cancer heterogeneity
- Dr. Josh Stern - Telomerase regulation in cancer, stem cells, and aging
- Dr. Zhangli Su - Molecular mechanism of RNA modifications in cancers by novel genomics tools
- Dr. Sunil Sudarshan - Cancer metabolism and epigenetics. Renal Cancer
- Dr. Russell Taichman - Dissemination and homing of tumor cells in the bone marrow niche
- Dr. Jianming Tang - Immunogenetic and epigenetic factors in HIV/AIDS
- Dr. Carissa Thomas - Oral and gut microbiomes and head and neck cancer
- Dr. Sunnie Thompson - DNA and RNA Virus host interactions, translational control, and cancer
- Dr. Trygve Tollefsbol - Epigenetic mechanisms of cancer prevention
- Dr. Eric Ubil - Cancer immunology; mechanistic study of tumor-mediated immune suppression
- Dr. Erwin Van Meir - Cancer biology and signaling; Neuro-Onc; Drug discovery; tumor suppression
- Dr. Robert van Waardenburg - DNA repair, structure-function, modification, biochemistry, genetics, drug dev
- Dr. Sooryanarayana Varambally - Understanding the molecular alterations during the progression of cancer.
- Dr. Sadanandan Velu - Drug discovery and development
- Dr. Angela Wahl - Creation and use of animal models to study human infections and cancers
- Dr. Deeann Wallis - Mutation directed therapeutics for neurofibromatosis type 1
- Dr. Fengbin (Jerry) Wang - Use cryo-EM to understand and design large assemblies
- Dr. Lizhong Wang - Cancer genetics and targeted therapy in prostate cancer and breast cancer
- Dr. Jason Warram - Cancer imaging
- Dr. Amy Weinmann - T cell differentiation, epigenetics, gene expression, metabolism, genomics
- Dr. Rob Welner - Altered hematopoietic environments during inflammation and leukemia
- Dr. Christopher Willey - Cancer biology, signal transduction, advanced patient-derived models
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Jia Xu - Understanding cancer development driven by genetic mutations in patients and developing novel therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment
- Dr. Eddy Yang - Experimental therapeutics, DNA damage and repair, immunotherapy
- Dr. Brad Yoder - Primary cilia function, in vivo imaging, and cystic kidney disorders
- Dr. Karina Yoon - "Mechanism-based therapeutic strategies, mechanisms of tumor progression
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
- Dr. Allan Zajac - Cell-mediated immune responses; viral immunology; immunological memory
- Dr. Jianhua Zhang - Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosome function
- Dr. Jun Zhang - RNA splicing, phase separation, NMR dynamics
- Dr. Rui Zhao - Use stem cell models to study human cancer and genetic diseases
- Dr. Lufang Zhou - Targeting mitochondrial dysfunction for the treatment of human diseases
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Cell, Molecular, & Developmental Biology (CMDB)
- Dr. Anupam Agarwal - Mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Patricia Aguilar Calvo - Glycosaminoglycans involvement in the pathology of prions
- Dr. Erin Eun-Young Ahn - RNA regulation and epigenetics in hematopoiesis, leukemia and brain tumors
- Dr. Matthew Alexander - Muscular dystrophy research, non-coding RNAs and zebrafish drug screening
- Dr. Namasivayam Ambalavanan - Lung development, lung injury, brain injury, mitochondria, oxidative stress
- Dr. Andrew Arrant - Cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aging
- Dr. Scott Ballinger - Mitochondrial biology and genetics. Cardiometabolic disease and metabolism
- Dr. Jarrod Barnes - How metabolic dysregulation impacts glycosylation and pulmonary disease
- Dr. Bryan Becker - Autonomic nervous system control of blood pressure
- Dr. David Bedwell -Approaches to suppress nonsense mutations to treat genetic diseases
- Dr. Susan Bellis - Cancer cell biology, mouse models of cancer, and tumor immunology
- Dr. Ravi Bhatia - Normal and leukemia stem cell biology, microenvironment, drug resistance
- Dr. Sushant Bhatnagar - Type 2 Diabetes, Islet Biology, Insulin Secretion, GPCR signaling
- Dr. Susan Birket -Cystic fibrosis airway disease and pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
- Dr. Subhashini Bolisetty - Inflammatory and repair mechanisms during acute kidney injury
- Dr. Jennifer Casey * - Understanding the contribution of macrophages in pulmonary fibrosis
- Dr. Chenbei Chang - Early vertebrate embryonic development: cell fate and cell shape regulation
- Dr. Pi-Ling Chang - Rexinoids, vitamin D, cancer therapeutics, role of SPP1 in tumorigenesis
- Dr. John Chatham - Understanding role of O-GlcNAc modifications in cellular stress response
- Dr. Bo-Ruei Chen - DNA double strand break repair pathway choice and response; gene targeting
- Dr. Herb Chen - Notch Signaling in Neuroendocrine Cancer
- Dr. Yabing Chen - Translational research on cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Igor Chesnokov - DNA replication and cell cycle progression in eukaryotes. Cytokinesis.
- Dr. Gino Cingolani - Nucleocytoplasmic Transport; TDP-43 proteinopathies; Bacterial viruses
- Dr. James Collawn * - Role of the unfolded protein response during hypoxia
- Dr. Rafael Contreras - Understanding the function of Centromeres, Telomeres, and repetitive DNA
- Dr. Tatjana Coric - Malignant transformation, chemoprevention, ncRNAs, high-throughput screening
- Dr. Constanza Cortes Rodriguez - Novel mechanisms of healthy brain aging and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. Sara Cooper - Cancer genomics; functional genomics; gene regulation
- Dr. Rita Cowell - Molecular contributors to cellular vulnerability in neurodegeneration
- Dr. Scott Cruikshank - Cellular, synaptic and circuit processing in thalamus and neocortex
- Dr. Lisa Curtis - The effect of sex and age on cellular mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Victor Darley-Usmar - Energetics and metabolism
- Dr. Jeremy Day - Gene regulation and epigenetic mechanisms in brain health and disease
- Dr. Carmen De Miguel - Impact of immune mediators on kidney function in diabetes and hypertension
- Dr. Briana De Miranda - Gene-environment interaction in Parkinson's disease and neurodegeneration
- Dr. Jessy Deshane - Immune regulation of asthma and lung cancer, Immuneregulation by microbiota
- Dr. Han-Fei Ding - Epigenetic regulation and therapeutic targeting of cancer metabolism
- Dr. Qiang Ding - Cellular and molecular mechanism of lung diseases
- Dr. Yogesh Dwivedi - Molecular mechanisms associated with mood disorders and suicidal behavior
- Dr. Christian Faul - FGF signaling in diseases of the kidney and the heart and in aging
- Dr. Amit Gaggar - Research focuses on the impact of proteases/antiproteases in lung disease
- Dr. Karen Gamble - Circadian, Sleep, Neurophysiology, Neurodegeneration, Physiology/Behavior
- Dr. Natalie Gassman - Modulation of metabolism and DNA repair pathways by environmental exposures
- Dr. Fred Goldman - Gene therapy- sickle cell ds, pathogenesis of bone marrow failure syndromes
- Dr. Marina Gorbatyuk - Molecular mechanisms of retinal degenerations
- Dr. Zachary Graham - Protecting skeletal muscle function after paralysis
- Dr. Michael Gray - Bacterial oxidative / starvation stress response, host-microbe interactions
- Dr. Michelle Gray - Huntington's disease (HD) pathogenesis and astrocyte dysfunction in HD
- Dr. Alecia Gross - Molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and retinal degenerations
- Dr. Jianguo Gu - Molecular mechanisms underlying the senses of temperature, touch and pain.
- Dr. Zhengrong Guan - Renal microvascular function and renal hemodynamics in AKI and CKD
- Dr. Kirk Habegger - Neuroendocrine regulation of energy, glucose and lipid metabolism
- Dr. John Hablitz - Cellular neurophysiology
- Dr. Andrew Hardaway - Feeding, obesity, neuropharmacology, neural circuits, amygdala, hindbrain
- Dr. Laurie Harrington - Functional heterogeneity of CD4 T cell responses, focused on autoimmunity
- Dr. Kevin Harrod - Influenza pathogenesis, genetics and secondary infections
- Dr. John Hartman - Yeast phenomic models of human disease
- Dr. Quamarul Hassan - Chromatin Remodeling, non-coding RNA, transcription regulation, and bone formation
- Dr. Jasper Heinsbroek - Neurobiology of motivated behaviors, addiction, and psychedelic therapy
- Dr. Caesar Hernandez - Neurobiology of emotional & cognitive disorders in aging and Alzheimer's
- Dr. Jeremy Herskowitz - Alzheimer’s disease
- Dr. Blake Hildreth - Genetic and therapeutic targeting of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer
- Dr. Anita Hjelmeland - Brain tumor cell signaling and biology, tumor environment, stem cells
- Dr. Hui-Chen Hsu - Mechanisms leading to autoreactive T and B-cell development in lupus
- Dr. Hui Hu - T cell differentiation, humoral responses, memory, infection, vaccines
- Dr. Chad Hunter - Transcriptional regulation of metabolic tissue development and function
- Dr. Kelly Hyndman - Epigenetic, physiology, kidney, fluid-electrolyte balance, kidney disease
- Dr. Amjad Javed - Genetic Control of Skeletogenesis During Development, Aging, and Disease
- Dr. Masakazu Kamata - Immunotherapy for HIV and cancer, Nanomedicine, Therapy for brain diseases
- Dr. Shinichi Kano - Immune modulation of brain function and homeostasis in health and disease
- Dr. Mythreye Karthikeyan - Growth factor signaling and matrix remodeling in tumor metastasis
- Dr. Nathalia Kedishvili - Bioactive vitamin A synthesis and signaling in health and disease
- Dr. Jeonga Kim - Understanding the role of vascular endothelium in metabolism
- Dr. Stefanie Krick - FGF signaling, airway inflammation, pulmonary vascular remodeling
- Dr. Prasanna Krishnamurthy - Diabetes influence on Cardiovascular diseases and tissue repair
- Dr. Benjamin Larimer - Development of Targeted Biological Agents for Cancer Treatment and Imaging
- Dr. Brittany Lasseigne - Genetics and genomics of human diseases (wet and dry lab approaches)
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Hui-Ting Lee - DNA/RNA structural dynamics and its role in protein binding.
- Dr. Elliot Lefkowitz - Microbial genomics and evolution; microbiome and disease; bioinformatics
- Dr. Andre Leier - Computational Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, Mutation-Directed Therapeutics
- Dr. Nicholas Lennemann - RNA virus-host interactions, flaviviruses, enteroviruses, coronaviruses
- Dr. Steve Lim - Integrin and ECM signaling in vascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Gang Liu - Lung injury, repair, inflammation, macrophage, cellular metabolism, ncRNA
- Dr. Rui Lu - Genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation, stem cells, cancer, drug discovery
- Dr. Farah Lubin - Epigenetics of memory formation and dysregulation with cognitive disorders
- Dr. James Markert - Immune response of oncolytic Herpes Virus on glioma- translational
- Dr. Alexa Mattheyses - Super-resolution microscopy to study cellular architecture and dynamics
- Dr. Heinrich Matthies - Dopamine in the nervous system; role in drug addiction autism
- Dr. Girish Melkani - Circadian/metabolic disorders linked to cardiac, muscle, sleep, and aging
- Dr. Tony Merriman - The genetic basis of gout; Epidemiology and pathogenic pathways
- Dr. C. Ryan Miller - Glioma pathogenesis using genetic mouse models and genomics/proteomics
- Dr. Tanecia Mitchell - The role of immune cells and diet in urological diseases
- Dr. Kasturi Mitra - Role of mitochondria in health and disease, with focus on cancer and aging
- Dr. Rajasekaran Namakkal Soorappan - Nrf2/Redox signaling, proteotoxicity, aging & genetics of cardiac diseases
- Dr. Vivek Nanda - Determining the genetic factors associated with cardiovascular disease
- Dr. Lyse Norian - Diet and obesity affect immunity to tumors
- Dr. Rakesh Patel - Redox biology, inflammation, cardio-pulmonary, translational, glycobiology
- Dr. John Parant - p53, genomic instability, tumor suppression, and modeling human diseases
- Dr. Vladimir Parpura - Gliotrasmission
- Dr. Neil Pfister - Cancer metabolism; mitochondria; electron transport chain; cell fate; DNA damage repair; bioinformatics
- Dr. William Placzek - Apoptosis regulation, chemoresistance, and anti-cancer target validation
- Dr. Jennifer Pollock - Cardiovascular and renal physiology and pathophysiology
- Dr. Thomas Poore - Airway immunology and fungal co-infections in Cystic Fibrosis
- Dr. Craig Powell - Genetic models of autism/ID using a multi-disciplinary approach
- Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller - Synapses in development, learning, and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Dr. Sumanth Prabhu - Mechanisms of immune activation and cardiac remodeling in heart failure
- Dr. Gangjian Qin - Ischemic disease, stem cells, mitochondria, transcription, lncRNA, exosomes
- Dr. S. Vamsee Raju - Novel pharmacologic approaches to treat muco-obstructive airways disease
- Dr. Chander Raman - Immunopathogenesis of autoimmunity
- Dr. Sasanka Ramanadham - Lipid signaling and T1D and bone formation
- Dr. Bin Ren - Epigenetics in heart & vascular disease, cancer, diabetes and cognition
- Dr. Nicole Riddle - Epigenetics, chromatin, gene regulation, and exercise response
- Dr. Lindsay Rizzardi - Functional genomics (single cell, long-read) of neurodegenerative diseases.
- Dr. Erik Roberson - Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dr. Glenn Rowe - The laboratory focuses on understanding mitochondrial metabolism
- Dr. Steven Rowe - Correction of CFTR function to treat CF; Acquired CFTR dysfunction in COPD
- Dr. Tom Ryan - Sickle Cell Anemia, Thalassemia, Stem Cells, Mouse Models, Hb Switching
- Dr. Rajeev Samant - Developmental and stress signaling,metastasis, RNA Biology, mouse models
- Dr. Yan Sanders - Epigenetic mechanisms in lung fibrosis and age-related diseases
- Dr. Ralph Sanderson - Heparanase regulation of tumor progression and metastasis
- Dr. Priscila Sato - Cardiovascular dysfunction, metabolic diseases, heart failure, mitochondria
- Dr. Ankur Saxena - Neurogenesis in the context of development, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. David Schneider - Define the molecular mechanisms that govern eukaryotic gene expression
- Dr. Rosa Serra - Skeletal development and disease
- Dr. Palaniappan Sethu - Human tissue chip models of organs and tissue
- Dr. Bingdong Sha - Protein folding and transport; ER stress, molecular chaperones
- Dr. Anath Shalev - Thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP) signaling
- Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant - Dynamics of interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironment
- Dr. Brian Sims - Developing brain and neuroprotection
- Dr. Barry Sleckman - Developmental Immunology, DNA double strand break repair, genome stability
- Dr. Daniel Smith - Nutrition, Aging, Body Composition, Metabolism, Chronic Disease, Genetics
- Dr. Anna Sorace - Cancer imaging, drug delivery, tumor microenvironment,cancer heterogeneity
- Dr. Josh Stern - Telomerase regulation in cancer, stem cells, and aging
- Dr. Zhangli Su - Molecular mechanism of RNA modifications in cancers by novel genomics tools
- Dr. HaoSheng Sun - Molecular mechanisms of neuronal development and plasticity
- Dr. Liou Sun - Neurobiology of aging, metabolism,longevity research
- Dr. Elizabeth Sztul - Molecular mechanisms regulating membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells
- Dr. Russell Taichman - Dissemination and homing of tumor cells in the bone marrow niche
- Dr. Anna Thalacker-Mercer - Nutrient and metabolic determinants of muscle regeneration and atrophy
- Dr. Sunnie Thompson - DNA and RNA Virus host interactions, translational control, and cancer
- Dr. Summer Thyme - Zebrafish, neurodevelopment, schizophrenia, autism, genetics, drug screens
- Dr. Eric Ubil - Cancer immunology; mechanistic study of tumor-mediated immune suppression
- Dr. Erwin Van Meir - Cancer biology and signaling; Neuro-Onc; Drug discovery; tumor suppression
- Dr. Robert van Waardenburg - DNA repair, structure-function, modification, biochemistry, genetics, drug dev
- Dr. Suresh Verma - Novel signaling pathways in cardiac repair and regeneration
- Dr. Dario Vitturi - Immunomodulatory and pro-homeostatic redox signaling by electrophiles
- Dr. Laura Volpicelli-Daley - Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementias
- Dr. Jacques Wadiche - Fundamental properties of synaptic transmission
- Dr. Linda Wadiche - Cellular physiology of adult-born neurons and GABAergic interneurons
- Dr. Deeann Wallis - Mutation directed therapeutics for neurofibromatosis type 1
- Dr. Jianbo Wang - Developmental genetics; Molecular basis of human congenital defects
- Dr. Yuchen Wang - Molecular mechanism underlying synapse formation and function
- Dr. Adam Wende - Heart failure, diabetes, epigenetics, mitochondria, and PTM of protein
- Dr. Amy Weinmann - T cell differentiation, epigenetics, gene expression, metabolism, genomics
- Dr. Richard Whitley * - Engineering of herpes simplex virus treating brain tumors
- Dr. Christopher Willey - Cancer biology, signal transduction, advanced patient-derived models
- Dr. Kent Willis - Regulation of the neonatal fungal microbiota (mycobiome)
- Dr. Scott Wilson - Regulation of peripheral nerve myelination
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Min Xie - Mitigating cardiomyocyte ischemia/reperfusion injury
- Dr. Jia Xu - Understanding cancer development driven by genetic mutations in patients and developing novel therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment
- Dr. Talene Yacoubian - Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Dr. Lei Ye - Molecular and cellular therapy for treatment of heart failure
- Dr. Brad Yoder - Primary cilia function, in vivo imaging, and cystic kidney disorders
- Dr. Karina Yoon - "Mechanism-based therapeutic strategies, mechanisms of tumor progression
- Dr. Martin Young - Circadian regulation of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
- Dr. Allan Zajac - Cell-mediated immune responses; viral immunology; immunological memory
- Dr. Jianhua Zhang - Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosome function
- Dr. Rui Zhao - Use stem cell models to study human cancer and genetic diseases
- Dr. Lufang Zhou - Targeting mitochondrial dysfunction for the treatment of human diseases
- Dr. Yang Zhou - Molecular mechanisms that define cardiac lineage identity
- Dr. Jaroslaw Zmijewski - Metabolism, Sepsis, Lung injury, repair and regeneration, Lung fibrosis
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Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics (GGB)
- Dr. Anupam Agarwal - Mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Erin Eun-Young Ahn - RNA regulation and epigenetics in hematopoiesis, leukemia and brain tumors
- Dr. Sen Arko - Discovery of non-coding driver mutations in pediatric cancers.
- Dr. Pankaj Arora - Natriuretic peptides; cardiovascular genomics; cardiometabolic diseases
- Dr. Matthew Alexander - Muscular dystrophy research, non-coding RNAs and zebrafish drug screening
- Dr. Andrew Arrant - Cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aging
- Dr. Scott Ballinger - Mitochondrial biology and genetics. Cardiometabolic disease and metabolism
- Dr. Gregory Barsh - Genetic architecture of morphologic variation
- Dr. David Bedwell -Approaches to suppress nonsense mutations to treat genetic diseases
- Dr. Susan Bellis - Cancer cell biology, mouse models of cancer, and tumor immunology
- Dr. Ravi Bhatia - Normal and leukemia stem cell biology, microenvironment, drug resistance
- Dr. Sushant Bhatnagar - Type 2 Diabetes, Islet Biology, Insulin Secretion, GPCR signaling
- Dr. Susan Birket -Cystic fibrosis airway disease and pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
- Dr. Subhashini Bolisetty - Inflammatory and repair mechanisms during acute kidney injury
- Dr. Markus Bredel - Research on brain cancer
- Dr. Elizabeth Brown - B cell hematologic malignancies, autoimmune disease, genetic epidemiology
- Dr. Chenbei Chang - Early vertebrate embryonic development: cell fate and cell shape regulation
- Dr. Pi-Ling Chang - Rexinoids, vitamin D, cancer therapeutics, role of SPP1 in tumorigenesis
- Dr. John Chatham - Understanding role of O-GlcNAc modifications in cellular stress response
- Dr. Herb Chen - Notch Signaling in Neuroendocrine Cancer
- Dr. Yabing Chen - Translational research on cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Changde Cheng - Computational biology, quantitative and population genetics, cancer, and aging
- Dr. Igor Chesnokov - DNA replication and cell cycle progression in eukaryotes. Cytokinesis.
- Dr. Zechen Chong - Genomics, Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Disease Genomics, algorithms
- Dr. James Collawn * - Role of the unfolded protein response during hypoxia
- Dr. Greg Cooper - Human genetics, genomics, and rare disease
- Dr. Sara Cooper - Cancer genomics; functional genomics; gene regulation
- Dr. Rita Cowell - Molecular contributors to cellular vulnerability in neurodegeneration
- Dr. Lisa Curtis - The effect of sex and age on cellular mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Jeremy Day - Gene regulation and epigenetic mechanisms in brain health and disease
- Dr. Carmen De Miguel - Impact of immune mediators on kidney function in diabetes and hypertension
- Dr. Qiang Ding - Cellular and molecular mechanism of lung diseases
- Dr. Lynn Dobrunz - Synaptic and circuit mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric diseases
- Dr. Anindya Dutta - Genomic Instability, Noncoding RNAs and Bioinformatics of cancers
- Dr. Yogesh Dwivedi - Molecular mechanisms associated with mood disorders and suicidal behavior
- Dr. Christian Faul - FGF signaling in diseases of the kidney and the heart and in aging
- Dr. Karen Gamble - Circadian, Sleep, Neurophysiology, Neurodegeneration, Physiology/Behavior
- Dr. Fred Goldman - Gene therapy- sickle cell ds, pathogenesis of bone marrow failure syndromes
- Dr. Marina Gorbatyuk - Molecular mechanisms of retinal degenerations
- Dr. Zachary Graham - Protecting skeletal muscle function after paralysis
- Dr. Michael Gray - Bacterial oxidative / starvation stress response, host-microbe interactions
- Dr. Michelle Gray - Huntington's disease (HD) pathogenesis and astrocyte dysfunction in HD
- Dr. Alecia Gross - Molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and retinal degenerations
- Dr. Zhengrong Guan - Renal microvascular function and renal hemodynamics in AKI and CKD
- Dr. Kirk Habegger - Neuroendocrine regulation of energy, glucose and lipid metabolism
- Dr. John Hablitz - Cellular neurophysiology
- Dr. Andrew Hardaway - Feeding, obesity, neuropharmacology, neural circuits, amygdala, hindbrain
- Dr. Kevin Harrod - Influenza pathogenesis, genetics and secondary infections
- Dr. John Hartman - Yeast phenomic models of human disease
- Dr. Quamarul Hassan - Chromatin Remodeling, non-coding RNA, transcription regulation, and bone formation
- Dr. Zdenek Hel - Immunology, HIV research, cancer immunology
- Dr. Jeremy Herskowitz - Alzheimer’s disease
- Dr. Anita Hjelmeland - Brain tumor cell signaling and biology, tumor environment, stem cells
- Dr. Chen Huang - Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Precision Oncology
- Dr. Hui Hu - T cell differentiation, humoral responses, memory, infection, vaccines
- Dr. Forest Huls * - Precision diagnostics & therapeutics; rare diseases; malignant hematology
- Dr. Chad Hunter - Transcriptional regulation of metabolic tissue development and function
- Dr. Kelly Hyndman - Epigenetic, physiology, kidney, fluid-electrolyte balance, kidney disease
- Dr. Amjad Javed - Genetic Control of Skeletogenesis During Development, Aging, and Disease
- Dr. Kai Jiao - Genetic and epigenetic regulation of mammalian heart development
- Dr. Shinichi Kano - Immune modulation of brain function and homeostasis in health and disease
- Dr. Megan Kiedrowski - Host-bacterial interactions in the respiratory tract
- Dr. Jeonga Kim - Understanding the role of vascular endothelium in metabolism
- Dr. Bruce Korf - Neurofibromatosis- research, clinical care, advocacy and education
- Dr. Stefanie Krick - FGF signaling, airway inflammation, pulmonary vascular remodeling
- Dr. Prasanna Krishnamurthy - Diabetes influence on Cardiovascular diseases and tissue repair
- Dr. Benjamin Larimer - Development of Targeted Biological Agents for Cancer Treatment and Imaging
- Dr. Brittany Lasseigne - Genetics and genomics of human diseases (wet and dry lab approaches)
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Elliot Lefkowitz - Microbial genomics and evolution; microbiome and disease; bioinformatics
- Dr. Andre Leier - Computational Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, Mutation-Directed Therapeutics
- Dr. Steve Lim - Integrin and ECM signaling in vascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Gang Liu - Lung injury, repair, inflammation, macrophage, cellular metabolism, ncRNA
- Dr. X. Margaret Liu - Anti-cancer therapy development; drug delivery; heart disease treatment
- Dr. Rui Lu - Genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation, stem cells, cancer, drug discovery
- Dr. Farah Lubin - Epigenetics of memory formation and dysregulation with cognitive disorders
- Dr. Upender Manne - Cancer cell biology, genetics, molecular biomarkers, racial disparity
- Dr. James Markert - Immune response of oncolytic Herpes Virus on glioma- translational
- Dr. Tatiana Marquez Lago - Host-microbiota interactions, antibiotic resistance, multi-omics, AI
- Dr. Alexa Mattheyses - Super-resolution microscopy to study cellular architecture and dynamics
- Dr. Merry-Lynn McDonald (Donnelly) - Integrative 'omics, genetic epidemiology
- Dr. Girish Melkani - Circadian/metabolic disorders linked to cardiac, muscle, sleep, and aging
- Dr. Tony Merriman - The genetic basis of gout; Epidemiology and pathogenic pathways
- Dr. Matthew Might - precision medicine, artificial intelligence
- Dr. C. Ryan Miller - Glioma pathogenesis using genetic mouse models and genomics/proteomics
- Dr. Tanecia Mitchell - The role of immune cells and diet in urological diseases
- Dr. Kasturi Mitra - Role of mitochondria in health and disease, with focus on cancer and aging
- Dr. Joanne Murphy-Ullrich - Extracellular matrix in regulation of tissue repair and disease
- Dr. Rajasekaran Namakkal Soorappan - Nrf2/Redox signaling, proteotoxicity, aging & genetics of cardiac diseases
- Dr. Vivek Nanda - Determining the genetic factors associated with cardiovascular disease
- Dr. Jill Napierala * - Defining molecular mechanisms underlying Friedreich's ataxia
- Dr. Michael Niederweis - Outer membrane proteins and their role in tuberculosis pathogenesis
- Dr. Lyse Norian - Diet and obesity affect immunity to tumors
- Dr. Rakesh Patel - Redox biology, inflammation, cardio-pulmonary, translational, glycobiology
- Dr. John Parant - p53, genomic instability, tumor suppression, and modeling human diseases
- Dr. Neil Pfister - Cancer metabolism; mitochondria; electron transport chain; cell fate; DNA damage repair; bioinformatics
- Dr. William Placzek - Apoptosis regulation, chemoresistance, and anti-cancer target validation
- Dr. Jennifer Pollock - Cardiovascular and renal physiology and pathophysiology
- Dr. Craig Powell - Genetic models of autism/ID using a multi-disciplinary approach
- Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller - Synapses in development, learning, and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Dr. Gangjian Qin - Ischemic disease, stem cells, mitochondria, transcription, lncRNA, exosomes
- Dr. S. Vamsee Raju - Novel pharmacologic approaches to treat muco-obstructive airways disease
- Dr. Bin Ren - Epigenetics in heart & vascular disease, cancer, diabetes and cognition
- Dr. Nicole Riddle - Epigenetics, chromatin, gene regulation, and exercise response
- Dr. Lindsay Rizzardi - Functional genomics (single cell, long-read) of neurodegenerative diseases.
- Dr. Erik Roberson - Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dr. Rosalinda Roberts - Neuroanatomy and neuropathology of human postmortem brain in schizophrenia
- Dr. J. Bart Rose - Novel therapies for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and adenocarcinomas
- Dr. Steven Rowe - Correction of CFTR function to treat CF; Acquired CFTR dysfunction in COPD
- Dr. Tom Ryan - Sickle Cell Anemia, Thalassemia, Stem Cells, Mouse Models, Hb Switching
- Dr. Rajeev Samant - Developmental and stress signaling,metastasis, RNA Biology, mouse models
- Dr. Yan Sanders - Epigenetic mechanisms in lung fibrosis and age-related diseases
- Dr. Ralph Sanderson - Heparanase regulation of tumor progression and metastasis
- Dr. Ankur Saxena - Neurogenesis in the context of development, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. David Schneider - Define the molecular mechanisms that govern eukaryotic gene expression
- Dr. Michael Seifert - Biomarkers of kidney transplant diseases in children and adults
- Dr. Rosa Serra - Skeletal development and disease
- Dr. Palaniappan Sethu - Human tissue chip models of organs and tissue
- Dr. Bingdong Sha - Protein folding and transport; ER stress, molecular chaperones
- Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant - Dynamics of interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironment
- Dr. Keshav Singh - Mitochondrial genetics, cancer genetics, cancer health disparities
- Dr. Barry Sleckman - Developmental Immunology, DNA double strand break repair, genome stability
- Dr. Daniel Smith - Nutrition, Aging, Body Composition, Metabolism, Chronic Disease, Genetics
- Dr. Anna Sorace - Cancer imaging, drug delivery, tumor microenvironment,cancer heterogeneity
- Dr. Josh Stern - Telomerase regulation in cancer, stem cells, and aging
- Dr. HaoSheng Sun - Molecular mechanisms of neuronal development and plasticity
- Dr. Liou Sun - Neurobiology of aging, metabolism,longevity research
- Dr. Alex Szalai - Innate immunity, and how it regulates and subverts adaptive immunity
- Dr. Elizabeth Sztul - Molecular mechanisms regulating membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells
- Dr. Sunnie Thompson - DNA and RNA Virus host interactions, translational control, and cancer
- Dr. Summer Thyme - Zebrafish, neurodevelopment, schizophrenia, autism, genetics, drug screens
- Dr. Hemant Tiwari - GWAS, CNVs, Epigenetics, RNA-Seq, WGS, Metabolomics, Population Genetics
- Dr. Trygve Tollefsbol - Epigenetic mechanisms of cancer prevention
- Dr. Erwin Van Meir - Cancer biology and signaling; Neuro-Onc; Drug discovery; tumor suppression
- Dr. Robert van Waardenburg - DNA repair, structure-function, modification, biochemistry, genetics, drug dev
- Dr. Sooryanarayana Varambally - Understanding the molecular alterations during the progression of cancer.
- Dr. Suresh Verma - Novel signaling pathways in cardiac repair and regeneration
- Dr. Laura Volpicelli-Daley - Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Lewy body dementias (LBDs), collectively know
- Dr. Jacques Wadiche - Fundamental properties of synaptic transmission
- Dr. Linda Wadiche - Cellular physiology of adult-born neurons and GABAergic interneurons
- Dr. Deeann Wallis - Mutation directed therapeutics for neurofibromatosis type 1
- Dr. Jianbo Wang - Developmental genetics; Molecular basis of human congenital defects
- Dr. Amy Weinmann - T cell differentiation, epigenetics, gene expression, metabolism, genomics
- Dr. Adam Wende - Heart failure, diabetes, epigenetics, mitochondria, and PTM of protein
- Dr. Christopher Willey - Cancer biology, signal transduction, advanced patient-derived models
- Dr. Scott Wilson - Regulation of peripheral nerve myelination
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Jia Xu - Understanding cancer development driven by genetic mutations in patients and developing novel therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment
- Dr. Min Xie - Mitigating cardiomyocyte ischemia/reperfusion injury
- Dr. Talene Yacoubian - Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Dr. Brad Yoder - Primary cilia function, in vivo imaging, and cystic kidney disorders
- Dr. Karina Yoon - "Mechanism-based therapeutic strategies, mechanisms of tumor progression
- Dr. Martin Young - Circadian regulation of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
- Dr. Allan Zajac - Cell-mediated immune responses; viral immunology; immunological memory
- Dr. Jianhua Zhang - Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosome function
- Dr. Rui Zhao - Use stem cell models to study human cancer and genetic diseases
- Dr. Lufang Zhou - Targeting mitochondrial dysfunction for the treatment of human diseases
- Dr. Yang Zhou - Molecular mechanisms that define cardiac lineage identity
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Immunology (IMM)
- Dr. Anupam Agarwal - Mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Prescott Atkinson - Molecular etiology of immunodeficiency; role of mycoplasmas in chronic dz
- Dr. Andre Ballesteros Tato - T and B cell responses to viruses
- Dr. Susan Bellis - Cancer cell biology, mouse models of cancer, and tumor immunology
- Dr. Etty (Tika) Benveniste - Immune/nervous system interactions, neuroinflammation, the JAK-STAT pathway
- Dr. Ravi Bhatia - Normal and leukemia stem cell biology, microenvironment, drug resistance
- Dr. Susan Birket -Cystic fibrosis airway disease and pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
- Dr. Elizabeth Brown - B cell hematologic malignancies, autoimmune disease, genetic epidemiology
- Dr. Peter Burrows * - Molecular biology of B lymphocytes
- Dr. A. Brent Carter - The role of macrophages and mitochondria in the pathogenesis of fibrosis
- Dr. Jennifer Casey * - Understanding the contribution of macrophages in pulmonary fibrosis
- Dr. Jake Chen - Bioinformatics, genomic big data, AI and machine learning in healthcare
- Dr. Guangjie Cheng - Roles of ROS-generated NADPH oxidases and heme peroxidases
- Dr. Rafael Contreras - Understanding the function of Centromeres, Telomeres, and repetitive DNA
- Dr. Randy Cron - Mechanisms of patient mutations leading to macrophage activation syndrome
- Dr. Randall Davis - Cellular/molecular immunology; malig hematology (leukemia/lymphoma/myeloma)
- Dr. Carmen De Miguel - Impact of immune mediators on kidney function in diabetes and hypertension
- Dr. Jessy Deshane - Immune regulation of asthma and lung cancer, Immuneregulation by microbiota
- Dr. Vikas Dudeja - Pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
- Dr. Steven Duncan - Adaptive immune processes in chronic lung diseases.
- Dr. Nathan Erdmann - Viral immunology understanding inflammation and adaptive immune responses
- Dr. Amit Gaggar - Research focuses on the impact of proteases/antiproteases in lung disease
- Dr. J. Victor Garcia-Martinez - Humanized animal models to study immune responses in various diseases
- Dr. William Geisler - Immunology and genetic determinants of chlamydia infections in humans
- Dr. James George - Innate Immunity and resident macrophage biology, nephrology, transplantation
- Dr. Paul Goepfert - HIV-1 specific T cell responses and viral adaptation
- Dr. Deidre Gunn - Uterine transplant and reproductive endocrinology
- Dr. Ashley Harms - Neuroimmunology, neuroscience, Parkinson disease, Multiple System Atrophy
- Dr. Laurie Harrington - Functional heterogeneity of CD4 T cell responses, focused on autoimmunity
- Dr. Kevin Harrod - Influenza pathogenesis, genetics and secondary infections
- Dr. Robin Hatton - Effector and regulatory CD4 T cell development in health and disease
- Dr. Zdenek Hel - Immunology, HIV research, cancer immunology
- Dr. Blake Hildreth - Genetic and therapeutic targeting of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer
- Dr. Anita Hjelmeland - Brain tumor cell signaling and biology, tumor environment, stem cells
- Dr. Hui-Chen Hsu - Mechanisms leading to autoreactive T and B-cell development in lupus
- Dr. Hui Hu - T cell differentiation, humoral responses, memory, infection, vaccines
- Dr. Barry Sleckman - Developmental Immunology, DNA double strand break repair, genome stability
- Dr. Louis Justement - Analysis of molecular and cellular processes controlling B cell differentiation
- Dr. Masakazu Kamata - Immunotherapy for HIV and cancer, Nanomedicine, Therapy for brain diseases
- Dr. Shinichi Kano - Immune modulation of brain function and homeostasis in health and disease
- Dr. John Kappes - HIV-1 molecular virology and vaccine discovery
- Dr. John Kearney - B cell immunobiology
- Dr. Eugenia Kharlampieva - Polymers for drug delivery and regenerative medicine
- Dr. Megan Kiedrowski - Host-bacterial interactions in the respiratory tract
- Dr. Robert Kimberly - Systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic vasculitides
- Dr. Rodney King * - B cell repertoire analysis through high-throughput recombinant antibody
- Dr. Christopher Klug - Hematopoietic stem cell biology, acute leukemia, pancreatic cancer
- Dr. James Kobie - Translational B cell immunology focused on anti-viral responses
- Dr. Bruce Korf - Neurofibromatosis- research, clinical care, advocacy and education
- Dr. Sixto Leal - Host response and virulence factors mediating mold and mollicute infections
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Beatriz Leon Ruiz - Control of T cell responses by dendritic cell subsets
- Dr. Gang Liu - Lung injury, repair, inflammation, macrophage, cellular metabolism, ncRNA
- Dr. Rui Lu - Genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation, stem cells, cancer, drug discovery
- Dr. Frances Lund - B cell differentiation; autoimmunity; vaccines; infectious disease; cancer
- Dr. Craig Maynard - Mucosal immunology, intestinal microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease
- Dr. Girish Melkani - Circadian/metabolic disorders linked to cardiac, muscle, sleep, and aging
- Dr. Braden McFarland - Neuro-oncology, brain cancer, immunotherapy, microbiome
- Dr. Tanecia Mitchell - The role of immune cells and diet in urological diseases
- Dr. John Mountz - Autoimmunity, SLE, lupus arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
- Dr. Moon Nahm - Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis, capsules, infections, and vaccines
- Dr. Ichiro Nakano - GBM, aging, and stem cell research
- Dr. Lyse Norian - Diet and obesity affect immunity to tumors
- Dr. Jan Novak - Glycobiology in health and disease
- Dr. Carlos J. Orihuela - Streptococcus pneumonias pathogenesis and the host response
- Dr. Thomas Poore - Airway immunology and fungal co-infections in Cystic Fibrosis
- Dr. Paige Porrett - Reproductive Immunology, Transplant Immunology; Immune Cell Differentiation
- Dr. Sumanth Prabhu - Mechanisms of immune activation and cardiac remodeling in heart failure
- Dr. Chander Raman - Immunopathogenesis of autoimmunity
- Dr. Sasanka Ramanadham - Lipid signaling and T1D and bone formation
- Dr. Troy Randall - Local immune responses to viruses, allergens, autoantigens and tumors
- Dr. Matthew Renfrow - Protein glycosylation in the context of disease
- Dr. Steffanie Sabbaj * - Cellular immunity in humans with a focus on mucosal immunology
- Dr. Michael Seifert - Biomarkers of kidney transplant diseases in children and adults
- Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant - Dynamics of interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironment
- Dr. Lewis Shi - Cancer Immunotherapy, immuno-metabolism, T cell development and function
- Dr. Jasvinder Singh - Outcomes research
- Dr. Phillip Smith - Immune mucosal cell response to enteric pathogens.
- Dr. Anna Sorace - Cancer imaging, drug delivery, tumor microenvironment,cancer heterogeneity
- Dr. David Standaert - Parkinson disease, dystonia, neuro-inflammation
- Dr. Alex Szalai - Innate immunity, and how it regulates and subverts adaptive immunity
- Dr. Jianming Tang - Immunogenetic and epigenetic factors in HIV/AIDS
- Dr. Carissa Thomas - Oral and gut microbiomes and head and neck cancer
- Dr. Hubert Tse - Immunopathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes and islet transplantation rejection
- Dr. Eric Ubil - Cancer immunology; mechanistic study of tumor-mediated immune suppression
- Dr. Angela Wahl - Creation and use of animal models to study human infections and cancers
- Dr. Deeann Wallis - Mutation directed therapeutics for neurofibromatosis type 1
- Dr. Mark Walter - Structure, biochemistry, and function of cytokines involved in viral pathogenesis and autoimmunity
- Dr. Casey Weaver - Immune regulation by CD4 T cells
- Dr. Rob Welner - Altered hematopoietic environments during inflammation and leukemia
- Dr. Amy Weinmann - T cell differentiation, epigenetics, gene expression, metabolism, genomics
- Dr. Richard Whitley * - Engineering of herpes simplex virus treating brain tumors
- Dr. Christopher Willey - Cancer biology, signal transduction, advanced patient-derived models
- Dr. Kent Willis - Regulation of the neonatal fungal microbiota (mycobiome)
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Brad Yoder - Primary cilia function, in vivo imaging, and cystic kidney disorders
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
- Dr. Allan Zajac - Cell-mediated immune responses; viral immunology; immunological memory
- Dr. Jianhua Zhang - Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosome function
- Dr. Ping Zhang - Host-microbial interactions in oral infectious diseases, Osteoimmunology
- Dr. Qing Zhao - Host-microbiota interactions in health and disease
- Dr. Jaroslaw Zmijewski - Metabolism, Sepsis, Lung injury, repair and regeneration, Lung fibrosis
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Microbiology (MIC)
- Dr. Megan Amerson-Brown - Clinical microbiology, clinical diagnostics, infection prevention
- Dr. Prescott Atkinson - Molecular etiology of immunodeficiency; role of mycoplasmas in chronic dz
- Dr. Andre Ballesteros Tato - T and B cell responses to viruses
- Dr. William Benjamin * - Infectious disease clinical laboratory medical director
- Dr. Susan Birket -Cystic fibrosis airway disease and pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
- Dr. William Britt - Virus assembly; viral pathogenesis
- Dr. Thomas Buford - Clinical & pre-clinical research on healthy aging with a focus on exercise
- Dr. Juan Calix - How modern-day pathogens propagate among at-risk host and lead to infection
- Dr. Yabing Chen - Translational research on cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Louise Chow - Patholobiology of human papillomaviruses and drug discovery
- Dr. Carrie Coleman - Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and EBV associated malignancies
- Dr. Terje Dokland - Virus and bacteriophage structure and assembly, cryo-electron microscopy
- Dr. Amit Gaggar - Research focuses on the impact of proteases/antiproteases in lung disease
- Dr. J. Victor Garcia-Martinez - Humanized animal models to study immune responses in various diseases
- Dr. Michael Gray - Bacterial oxidative / starvation stress response, host-microbe interactions
- Dr. Todd Green - Viral replication and autobodies related to IgA nephopathy
- Dr. Paul Goepfert - HIV-1 specific T cell responses and viral adaptation
- Dr. Laurie Harrington - Functional heterogeneity of CD4 T cell responses, focused on autoimmunity
- Dr. Kevin Harrod - Influenza pathogenesis, genetics and secondary infections
- Dr. John Hartman - Yeast phenomic models of human disease
- Dr. Hui-Chen Hsu - Mechanisms leading to autoreactive T and B-cell development in lupus
- Dr. Hui Hu - T cell differentiation, humoral responses, memory, infection, vaccines
- Dr. Masakazu Kamata - Immunotherapy for HIV and cancer, Nanomedicine, Therapy for brain diseases
- Dr. John Kappes - HIV-1 molecular virology and vaccine discovery
- Dr. John Kearney - B cell immunobiology
- Dr. Megan Kiedrowski - Host-bacterial interactions in the respiratory tract
- Dr. Olaf Kutsch - Cure for HIV-1 infection - drug discovery
- Dr. Sixto Leal - Host response and virulence factors mediating mold and mollicute infections
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Rachael Lee * - antimicrobial resistance, particularly CRE and daptomycin resistant VRE
- Dr. Elliot Lefkowitz - Microbial genomics and evolution; microbiome and disease; bioinformatics
- Dr. Nicholas Lennemann - RNA virus-host interactions, flaviviruses, enteroviruses, coronaviruses
- Dr. Beatriz Leon Ruiz - Control of T cell responses by dendritic cell subsets
- Dr. Gang Liu - Lung injury, repair, inflammation, macrophage, cellular metabolism, ncRNA
- Dr. Aaron Lucius - Mechanisms of transcription catalyzed by RNA Pol I and SARS-CoV-2 nsp12
- Dr. Frances Lund - B cell differentiation; autoimmunity; vaccines; infectious disease; cancer
- Dr. Tatiana Marquez Lago - Host-microbiota interactions, antibiotic resistance, multi-omics, AI
- Dr. Lynn Matthews - Reducing HIV transmission among HIV-affected men and women/safer conception
- Dr. Craig Maynard - Mucosal immunology, intestinal microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease
- Dr. Girish Melkani - Circadian/metabolic disorders linked to cardiac, muscle, sleep, and aging
- Dr. Moon Nahm - Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis, capsules, infections, and vaccines
- Dr. Michael Niederweis - Outer membrane proteins and their role in tuberculosis pathogenesis
- Dr. Minae Niwa - Neurobiology of Stress: circuits and systems; neuroscience research
- Dr. Jan Novak - Glycobiology in health and disease
- Dr. Christina Ochsenbauer - HIV-1 transmission; immunomonitoring approaches for vaccine discovery.
- Dr. Carlos J. Orihuela - Streptococcus pneumonias pathogenesis and the host response
- Dr. Chad Petit - Structure and functional mechanisms that underlie influenza pathogenesis
- Dr. Peter Prevelige * - Virus structure and assembly
- Dr. S. Vamsee Raju - Novel pharmacologic approaches to treat muco-obstructive airways disease
- Dr. Troy Randall - Local immune responses to viruses, allergens, autoantigens and tumors
- Dr. Steven Rowe - Correction of CFTR function to treat CF; Acquired CFTR dysfunction in COPD
- Dr. Jamil Saad - Biological mechanisms in virology
- Dr. David Schneider - Define the molecular mechanisms that govern eukaryotic gene expression
- Dr. Jessica Scoffield - Pathogen-commensal interactions in polymicrboial infections
- Dr. Lewis Shi - Cancer Immunotherapy, immuno-metabolism, T cell development and function
- Dr. Keshav Singh - Mitochondrial genetics, cancer genetics, cancer health disparities
- Dr. Phillip Smith - Immune mucosal cell response to enteric pathogens.
- Dr. Andrie JC Steyn - TB pathogenesis, anti-TB drugs, 3D granuloma structure, bioenergetics
- Dr. W. Edward Swords - Opportunistic airway infections
- Dr. Alex Szalai - Innate immunity, and how it regulates and subverts adaptive immunity
- Dr. Jianming Tang - Immunogenetic and epigenetic factors in HIV/AIDS
- Dr. Carissa Thomas - Oral and gut microbiomes and head and neck cancer
- Dr. Sunnie Thompson - DNA and RNA Virus host interactions, translational control, and cancer
- Dr. Hubert Tse - Immunopathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes and islet transplantation rejection
- Dr. Charles Turnbough - Bacterial gene regulation/Structure and function of B. anthraces spores
- Dr. Angela Wahl - Creation and use of animal models to study human infections and cancers
- Dr. Mark Walter - Structure, biochemistry, and function of cytokines involved in viral pathogenesis and autoimmunity
- Dr. Amy Weinmann - T cell differentiation, epigenetics, gene expression, metabolism, genomics
- Dr. Richard Whitley * - Engineering of herpes simplex virus treating brain tumors
- Dr. Christopher Willey - Cancer biology, signal transduction, advanced patient-derived models
- Dr. Kent Willis - Regulation of the neonatal fungal microbiota (mycobiome)
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
- Dr. Allan Zajac - Cell-mediated immune responses; viral immunology; immunological memory
- Dr. Ping Zhang - Host-microbial interactions in oral infectious diseases, Osteoimmunology
- Dr. Qing Zhao - Host-microbiota interactions in health and disease
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Neuroscience (NEURO)
- Dr. Patricia Aguilar Calvo - Glycosaminoglycans involvement in the pathology of prions
- Dr. Erin Eun-Young Ahn - RNA regulation and epigenetics in hematopoiesis, leukemia and brain tumors
- Dr. Matthew Alexander - Muscular dystrophy research, non-coding RNAs and zebrafish drug screening
- Dr. Franklin Amthor - Retinal Electrophysiology
- Dr. Andrew Arrant - Cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aging
- Dr. Sofia Beas - Investigating the neural mechanisms underlying motivated behavior
- Dr. Bryan Becker - Autonomic nervous system control of blood pressure
- Dr. Nicole (Jessica) Bentley - Brain network connectivity, mechanisms of neurocognition and movement
- Dr. Etty (Tika) Benveniste - Immune/nervous system interactions, neuroinflammation, the JAK-STAT pathway
- Dr. Mark Bolding - Neuroimaging, MRI physics, and non-invasive neuromodulation.
- Dr. William Britt - Virus assembly; viral pathogenesis
- Dr. Thomas Buford - Clinical & pre-clinical research on healthy aging with a focus on exercise
- Dr. Susan Campbell - Mechanisms of epilepsy in pediatric and adult: role of the microbiome
- Dr. Angela Carter - Microbes as modulators of physiology and potential biotherapeutics
- Dr. Shu Chen - Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer's disease, prion disease
- Dr. Yuying Chen - Understand nature course and outcomes after spinal cord injury
- Dr. Gino Cingolani - Nucleocytoplasmic Transport; TDP-43 proteinopathies; Bacterial viruses
- Dr. Andrea Comba - Brain tumors heterogeneity, invasion and therapeutics resistance
- Dr. Constanza Cortes Rodriguez - Novel mechanisms of healthy brain aging and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. Rita Cowell - Molecular contributors to cellular vulnerability in neurodegeneration
- Dr. Scott Cruikshank - Cellular, synaptic and circuit processing in thalamus and neocortex
- Dr. Kirstie Cummings - Cell and circuit plasticity mechanisms of memory acquisition and storage
- Dr. Jeremy Day - Gene regulation and epigenetic mechanisms in brain health and disease
- Dr. Briana De Miranda - Gene-environment interaction in Parkinson's disease and neurodegeneration
- Dr. Jennifer DeBerry - Sensory neurobiology; pain and visceral sensory systems
- Dr. Yogesh Dwivedi - Molecular mechanisms associated with mood disorders and suicidal behavior
- Dr. Aaron Fobian - Cognitive & Neurobiological correlates of Functional Neurological Disorders
- Dr. Aurelio Galli - Mouse and drosophila genetic models to explore neuropsychiatric disorders
- Dr. Karen Gamble - Circadian, Sleep, Neurophysiology, Neurodegeneration, Physiology/Behavior
- Dr. Paul Gamlin - Retinal and CNS gene therapy; intrinsically-photosensitive RGCs
- Dr. Cristin Gavin * - Molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity, learning, & memory
- Dr. Matthew Goldberg - Pathogenic mechanisms of Parkinson's disease caused by genetic mutations
- Dr. Zachary Graham - Protecting skeletal muscle function after paralysis
- Dr. Michelle Gray - Huntington's disease (HD) pathogenesis and astrocyte dysfunction in HD
- Dr. Alecia Gross - Molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and retinal degenerations
- Dr. Jianguo Gu - Molecular mechanisms underlying the senses of temperature, touch and pain.
- Dr. Kirk Habegger - Neuroendocrine regulation of energy, glucose and lipid metabolism
- Dr. John Hablitz - Cellular neurophysiology
- Dr. Andrew Hardaway - Feeding, obesity, neuropharmacology, neural circuits, amygdala, hindbrain
- Dr. Ashley Harms - Neuroimmunology, neuroscience, Parkinson disease, Multiple System Atrophy
- Dr. Laurie Harrington - Functional heterogeneity of CD4 T cell responses, focused on autoimmunity
- Dr. Jasper Heinsbroek - Neurobiology of motivated behaviors, addiction, and psychedelic therapy
- Dr. Abbi Hernandez - Gut microbiome & Metabolism in Alzheimer's & Neurobiological/Cognitive Aging
- Dr. Caesar Hernandez - Neurobiology of emotional & cognitive disorders in aging and Alzheimer's
- Dr. Jeremy Herskowitz - Alzheimer’s disease
- Dr. Anita Hjelmeland - Brain tumor cell signaling and biology, tumor environment, stem cells
- Dr. Lara Ianov - Develops bioinformatics resources to be used by the neuroscience community
- Dr. Masakazu Kamata - Immunotherapy for HIV and cancer, Nanomedicine, Therapy for brain diseases
- Dr. Shinichi Kano - Immune modulation of brain function and homeostasis in health and disease
- Dr. Bob Kesterson - CRISPR gene therapy NF1 cancer neuroscience obesity primary cilia knockout
- Dr. Peter King - RNA regulation in neuroinflammation, ALS and glioblastoma
- Dr. Nina Kraguljac - Multimodal imaging to study psychosis spectrum disorders
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Wei Li - Neuron-glial interaction in autistic brains
- Dr. Rui-Ming Liu - Aging, oxidative stress, pulmonary fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. Farah Lubin - Epigenetics of memory formation and dysregulation with cognitive disorders
- Dr. Victor Mark - Behavioral neurology of rehabilitation outcomes from brain disease
- Dr. Heinrich Matthies - Dopamine in the nervous system; role in drug addiction autism
- Dr. Jonathan McConathy - Positron emission tomography for oncology and neuroimaging
- Dr. Girish Melkani - Circadian/metabolic disorders linked to cardiac, muscle, sleep, and aging
- Dr. C. Ryan Miller - Glioma pathogenesis using genetic mouse models and genomics/proteomics
- Dr. Ismail Mohamed - Epilepsy & functional imaging
- Dr. Louis (Burt) Nabors - Post-transcriptional regulation of RNA during gliomagenesis
- Dr. Matthew Nelson - Intracranial recordings and stimulation to study language in humans
- Dr. Minae Niwa - Neurobiology of Stress: circuits and systems; neuroscience research
- Dr. Vladimir Parpura - Gliotrasmission
- Dr. Haydeh Payami - Interaction of genes, environment and microbiome in Parkinson's disease
- Dr. Jamie Peters - Neurobiology of addiction and psychedelic therapy
- Dr. Craig Powell - Genetic models of autism/ID using a multi-disciplinary approach
- Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller - Synapses in development, learning, and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Dr. Brandon Pruett - Molecular disruptions in schizophrenia with a focus on intracellular pH
- Dr. Chander Raman - Immunopathogenesis of autoimmunity
- Dr. Bin Ren - Epigenetics in heart & vascular disease, cancer, diabetes and cognition
- Dr. Lindsay Rizzardi - Functional genomics (single cell, long-read) of neurodegenerative diseases.
- Dr. Erik Roberson - Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dr. Ankur Saxena - Neurogenesis in the context of development, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. Brian Sims - Developing brain and neuroprotection
- Dr. Lawrence Sincich - Neurobiology of retina, thalamus, and visual cortex in non-human primates
- Dr. David Standaert - Parkinson disease, dystonia, neuro-inflammation
- Dr. Zhangli Su - Molecular mechanism of RNA modifications in cancers by novel genomics tools
- Dr. HaoSheng Sun - Molecular mechanisms of neuronal development and plasticity
- Dr. Liou Sun - Neurobiology of aging, metabolism,longevity research
- Dr. Edward Taub - Cognitive Rehabilitation, physical rehabilitation, neuroimaging
- Dr. Summer Thyme - Zebrafish, neurodevelopment, schizophrenia, autism, genetics, drug screens
- Dr. Daniel Tyrrell - Immune & vascular mechanisms of neuro-degeneration in aging
- Dr. Erwin Van Meir - Cancer biology and signaling; Neuro-Onc; Drug discovery; tumor suppression
- Dr. Kristina Visscher - Plasticity in adult brains by using human neuroimaging tools
- Dr. Dario Vitturi - Immunomodulatory and pro-homeostatic redox signaling by electrophiles
- Dr. Laura Volpicelli-Daley - Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementias
- Dr. Jacques Wadiche - Fundamental properties of synaptic transmission
- Dr. Linda Wadiche - Cellular physiology of adult-born neurons and GABAergic interneurons
- Dr. Harrison Walker - Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders
- Dr. Qin Wang - Neuropharmacology and signaling underlying neuropsychiatric diseases
- Dr. Yuchen Wang - Molecular mechanism underlying synapse formation and function
- Dr. Scott Wilson - Regulation of peripheral nerve myelination
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Talene Yacoubian - Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Dr. Brad Yoder - Primary cilia function, in vivo imaging, and cystic kidney disorders
- Dr. Karina Yoon - "Mechanism-based therapeutic strategies, mechanisms of tumor progression
- Dr. Jianhua Zhang - Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosome function
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
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Pathobiology, Pharmacology, & Physiology (P3)
- Dr. Anupam Agarwal - Mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Patricia Aguilar Calvo - Glycosaminoglycans involvement in the pathology of prions
- Dr. Aftab Ahmad - Mechanisms in lung injury and repair. Hypoxia, HIFs and lung diseases
- Dr. Shama Ahmad - Mechanisms of cardiopulmonary toxicity of inhaled agents
- Dr. Erin Eun-Young Ahn - RNA regulation and epigenetics in hematopoiesis, leukemia and brain tumors
- Dr. Steve Aller - Understanding structure & function of membrane proteins (XRC & cryo-EM)
- Dr. Namasivayam Ambalavanan - Lung development, lung injury, brain injury, mitochondria, oxidative stress
- Dr. Hope Amm - Translational research for oral tumor therapies and diagnostics
- Dr. Peter Anderson * - Cardiovascular pathology
- Dr. Pankaj Arora - Natriuretic peptides; cardiovascular genomics; cardiometabolic diseases
- Dr. Shannon Bailey - Liver physiology & pathophysiology, energy metabolism, circadian biology
- Dr. Scott Ballinger - Mitochondrial biology and genetics. Cardiometabolic disease and metabolism
- Dr. Bryan Becker - Autonomic nervous system control of blood pressure
- Dr. Susan Bellis - Cancer cell biology, mouse models of cancer, and tumor immunology
- Dr. Nicole (Jessica) Bentley - Brain network connectivity, mechanisms of neurocognition and movement
- Dr. Ravi Bhatia - Normal and leukemia stem cell biology, microenvironment, drug resistance
- Dr. Sushant Bhatnagar - Type 2 Diabetes, Islet Biology, Insulin Secretion, GPCR signaling
- Dr. Susan Birket -Cystic fibrosis airway disease and pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
- Dr. Mary-Ann Bjornsti - Cancer therapeutics, DNA topoisomerases, SUMO conjugation, yeast genetics
- Dr. Subhashini Bolisetty - Inflammatory and repair mechanisms during acute kidney injury
- Dr. Brigitta Brott * - Engineering new materials to enhance vascular healing over devices
- Dr. Thomas Buford - Clinical & pre-clinical research on healthy aging with a focus on exercise
- Dr. A. Brent Carter - The role of macrophages and mitochondria in the pathogenesis of fibrosis
- Dr. John Chatham - Understanding role of O-GlcNAc modifications in cellular stress response
- Dr. Jake Chen - Bioinformatics, genomic big data, AI and machine learning in healthcare
- Dr. Shu Chen - Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer's disease, prion disease
- Dr. Yabing Chen - Translational research on cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Guangjie Cheng - Roles of ROS-generated NADPH oxidases and heme peroxidases
- Dr. Constanza Cortes Rodriguez - Novel mechanisms of healthy brain aging and Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. Rita Cowell - Molecular contributors to cellular vulnerability in neurodegeneration
- Dr. Kirstie Cummings - Cell and circuit plasticity mechanisms of memory acquisition and storage
- Dr. Lisa Curtis - The effect of sex and age on cellular mechanisms of acute kidney injury
- Dr. Victor Darley-Usmar - Energetics and metabolism
- Dr. Carmen De Miguel - Impact of immune mediators on kidney function in diabetes and hypertension
- Dr. Briana De Miranda - Gene-environment interaction in Parkinson's disease and neurodegeneration
- Dr. Dale Feldman - Tissue engineering, use of biomaterials to enhance the regenerative process
- Dr. Xu Feng - Role and Signaling mechanism RANKL in bone biology and cancer development
- Dr. Cathy Fuller * - Cell and molecular biology of ion channels, ENaC, ASIC and CFTR
- Dr. Amit Gaggar - Research focuses on the impact of proteases/antiproteases in lung disease
- Dr. Aurelio Galli - Mouse and drosophila genetic models to explore neuropsychiatric disorders
- Dr. Paul Gamlin - Retinal and CNS gene therapy; intrinsically-photosensitive RGCs
- Dr. Natalie Gassman - Modulation of metabolism and DNA repair pathways by environmental exposures
- Dr. James George - Innate Immunity and resident macrophage biology, nephrology, transplantation
- Dr. Barbara Gower - Endocrinology and metabolism; obesity, diabetes
- Dr. Michelle Gray - Huntington's disease (HD) pathogenesis and astrocyte dysfunction in HD
- Dr. Alecia Gross - Molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and retinal degenerations
- Dr. Zhengrong Guan - Renal microvascular function and renal hemodynamics in AKI and CKD
- Dr. Kirk Habegger - Neuroendocrine regulation of energy, glucose and lipid metabolism
- Dr. John Hablitz - Cellular neurophysiology
- Dr. Andrew Hardaway - Feeding, obesity, neuropharmacology, neural circuits, amygdala, hindbrain
- Dr. Laurie Harrington - Functional heterogeneity of CD4 T cell responses, focused on autoimmunity
- Dr. Kevin Harrod - Influenza pathogenesis, genetics and secondary infections
- Dr. John Hartman - Yeast phenomic models of human disease
- Dr. Quamarul Hassan - Chromatin Remodeling, non-coding RNA, transcription regulation, and bone formation
- Dr. Zdenek Hel - Immunology, HIV research, cancer immunology
- Dr. Caesar Hernandez - Neurobiology of emotional & cognitive disorders in aging and Alzheimer's
- Dr. Jeremy Herskowitz - Alzheimer’s disease
- Dr. Blake Hildreth - Genetic and therapeutic targeting of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer
- Dr. Anita Hjelmeland - Brain tumor cell signaling and biology, tumor environment, stem cells
- Dr. Forest Huls * - Precision diagnostics & therapeutics; rare diseases; malignant hematology
- Dr. Chad Hunter - Transcriptional regulation of metabolic tissue development and function
- Dr. Kelly Hyndman - Epigenetic, physiology, kidney, fluid-electrolyte balance, kidney disease
- Dr. Edward Inscho - Physiology of the renal microcirculation in health and disease
- Dr. Shinichi Kano - Immune modulation of brain function and homeostasis in health and disease
- Dr. Mythreye Karthikeyan - Growth factor signaling and matrix remodeling in tumor metastasis
- Dr. Nathalia Kedishvili - Bioactive vitamin A synthesis and signaling in health and disease
- Dr. Jeonga Kim - Understanding the role of vascular endothelium in metabolism
- Dr. Stefanie Krick - FGF signaling, airway inflammation, pulmonary vascular remodeling
- Dr. Prasanna Krishnamurthy - Diabetes influence on Cardiovascular diseases and tissue repair
- Dr. Hind Lal - Molecular Mechanism of Cardiac Function and dysfunction
- Dr. Sixto Leal - Host response and virulence factors mediating mold and mollicute infections
- Dr. Jianmei Leavenworth - Immunology and immunotherapy for cancer and other immune disorders
- Dr. Steve Lim - Integrin and ECM signaling in vascular disease and cancer
- Dr. Nita Limdi - Chronic Disease Epidemiology Pharmacogenomics, Implementation Science
- Dr. Rui-Ming Liu - Aging, oxidative stress, pulmonary fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease
- Dr. Gang Liu - Lung injury, repair, inflammation, macrophage, cellular metabolism, ncRNA
- Dr. Rui Lu - Genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation, stem cells, cancer, drug discovery
- Dr. Upender Manne - Cancer cell biology, genetics, molecular biomarkers, racial disparity
- Dr. Alexa Mattheyses - Super-resolution microscopy to study cellular architecture and dynamics
- Dr. Heinrich Matthies - Dopamine in the nervous system; role in drug addiction autism
- Dr. Craig Maynard - Mucosal immunology, intestinal microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease
- Dr. Girish Melkani - Circadian/metabolic disorders linked to cardiac, muscle, sleep, and aging
- Dr. Carmel McNicholas-Bevensee * - Ion channel regulation with focus on CFTR
- Dr. C. Ryan Miller - Glioma pathogenesis using genetic mouse models and genomics/proteomics
- Dr. Tanecia Mitchell - The role of immune cells and diet in urological diseases
- Dr. Kasturi Mitra - Role of mitochondria in health and disease, with focus on cancer and aging
- Dr. Douglas Moellering - Social determinants of health, metabolism, and mitochondrial physiology
- Dr. Rajasekaran Namakkal Soorappan - Nrf2/Redox signaling, proteotoxicity, aging & genetics of cardiac diseases
- Dr. Vivek Nanda - Determining the genetic factors associated with cardiovascular disease
- Dr. Minae Niwa - Neurobiology of Stress: circuits and systems; neuroscience research
- Dr. Jan Novak - Glycobiology in health and disease
- Dr. Rakesh Patel - Redox biology, inflammation, cardio-pulmonary, translational, glycobiology
- Dr. Jamie Peters - Neurobiology of addiction and psychedelic therapy
- Dr. Courtney Peterson - Intermittent fasting, circadian rhythms, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, CVD
- Dr. William Placzek - Apoptosis regulation, chemoresistance, and anti-cancer target validation
- Dr. David Pollock - Renal and cardiovascular physiology, Na & water homeostasis, hypertension
- Dr. Jennifer Pollock - Cardiovascular and renal physiology and pathophysiology
- Dr. Selvarangan Ponnazhagan - Cancer therapeutics, metastasis, breast and prostate cancers, immunotherapy
- Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller - Synapses in development, learning, and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Dr. Sumanth Prabhu - Mechanisms of immune activation and cardiac remodeling in heart failure
- Dr. Gangjian Qin - Ischemic disease, stem cells, mitochondria, transcription, lncRNA, exosomes
- Dr. S. Vamsee Raju - Novel pharmacologic approaches to treat muco-obstructive airways disease
- Dr. Sasanka Ramanadham - Lipid signaling and T1D and bone formation
- Dr. Jillian Richter - Role of vascular endothelium in organ failure after traumatic injury
- Dr. Bin Ren - Epigenetics in heart & vascular disease, cancer, diabetes and cognition
- Dr. Erik Roberson - Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia
- Dr. Glenn Rowe - The laboratory focuses on understanding mitochondrial metabolism
- Dr. Steven Rowe - Correction of CFTR function to treat CF; Acquired CFTR dysfunction in COPD
- Dr. Rajeev Samant - Developmental and stress signaling,metastasis, RNA Biology, mouse models
- Dr. Ralph Sanderson - Heparanase regulation of tumor progression and metastasis
- Dr. Priscila Sato - Cardiovascular dysfunction, metabolic diseases, heart failure, mitochondria
- Dr. David Schneider - Define the molecular mechanisms that govern eukaryotic gene expression
- Dr. Rosa Serra - Skeletal development and disease
- Dr. Palaniappan Sethu - Human tissue chip models of organs and tissue
- Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant - Dynamics of interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironment
- Dr. Priscila Sato - Cardiovascular dysfunction, metabolic diseases, heart failure, mitochondria
- Dr. Gene Siegal * - Tumor invasion and metastasis, bone neoplasia, viro and gene therapy
- Dr. Jasvinder Singh - Outcomes research
- Dr. Keshav Singh - Mitochondrial genetics, cancer genetics, cancer health disparities
- Dr. Daniel Smith - Nutrition, Aging, Body Composition, Metabolism, Chronic Disease, Genetics
- Dr. David Standaert - Parkinson disease, dystonia, neuro-inflammation
- Dr. Zhangli Su - Molecular mechanism of RNA modifications in cancers by novel genomics tools
- Dr. Liou Sun - Neurobiology of aging, metabolism,longevity research
- Dr. W. Edward Swords - Opportunistic airway infections
- Dr. Russell Taichman - Dissemination and homing of tumor cells in the bone marrow niche
- Dr. Anna Thalacker-Mercer - Nutrient and metabolic determinants of muscle regeneration and atrophy
- Dr. Summer Thyme - Zebrafish, neurodevelopment, schizophrenia, autism, genetics, drug screens
- Dr. Daniel Tyrrell - Immune & vascular mechanisms of neuro-degeneration in aging
- Dr. Erwin Van Meir - Cancer biology and signaling; Neuro-Onc; Drug discovery; tumor suppression
- Dr. Robert van Waardenburg - DNA repair, structure-function, modification, biochemistry, genetics, drug dev
- Dr. Suresh Verma - Novel signaling pathways in cardiac repair and regeneration
- Dr. Dario Vitturi - Immunomodulatory and pro-homeostatic redox signaling by electrophiles
- Dr. Laura Volpicelli-Daley - Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementias
- Dr. Jacques Wadiche - Fundamental properties of synaptic transmission
- Dr. Linda Wadiche - Cellular physiology of adult-born neurons and GABAergic interneurons
- Dr. Jianbo Wang - Developmental genetics; Molecular basis of human congenital defects
- Dr. Yuchen Wang - Molecular mechanism underlying synapse formation and function
- Dr. Adam Wende - Heart failure, diabetes, epigenetics, mitochondria, and PTM of protein
- Dr. Christopher Willey - Cancer biology, signal transduction, advanced patient-derived models
- Dr. Elizabeth Worthey - Rare disease knowledge enrichment; novel algorithmic/data-driven approaches
- Dr. Min Xie - Mitigating cardiomyocyte ischemia/reperfusion injury
- Dr. Jia Xu - Understanding cancer development driven by genetic mutations in patients and developing novel therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment
- Dr. Talene Yacoubian - Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Dr. Eddy Yang - Experimental therapeutics, DNA damage and repair, immunotherapy
- Dr. Nan Cher Yeo - Genome engineering, cancer genome regulation, rare disease modeling
- Dr. Brad Yoder - Primary cilia function, in vivo imaging, and cystic kidney disorders
- Dr. Karina Yoon - "Mechanism-based therapeutic strategies, mechanisms of tumor progression
- Dr. Martin Young - Circadian regulation of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology
- Dr. Nabiha Yusuf - Cancer immunology
- Dr. Allan Zajac - Cell-mediated immune responses; viral immunology; immunological memory
- Dr. Jianhua Zhang - Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosome function
- Dr. Jianyi Zhang - Cardiovascular physiology and cell therapy
- Dr. Lufang Zhou - Targeting mitochondrial dysfunction for the treatment of human diseases
- Dr. Jaroslaw Zmijewski - Metabolism, Sepsis, Lung injury, repair and regeneration, Lung fibrosis
*GBS Faculty without active labs
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