Featured Faculty

Vinod Labhasetwar, PhD
Research Interests:
nanomedicine; nanoparticles; cancer; imaging; targeted drug delivery; stroke; antioxidant delivery

Alexandru Almasan, PhD
Research Interests:
autophagy; apoptosis; cell cycle; dna damage; dna repair; cancer therapeutics; radiation therapy; leukemia; epithelial tumors; prostate cancer

Brian P. Rubin, MD, PhD
Research Interests:
sarcoma; genetics, oncogene addiction, targeted therapy, pathology, mouse models of human cancer

Nima Sharifi, MD
Research Interests:
prostate cancer; androgens; metabolism; steroids; castration-resistant prostate cancer; androgen receptor; hormone therapy; medical oncology; dihydrotestosterone; enzymes; biochemistry

George R. Stark, PhD
Research Interests:
interferons; il-6; nfkb; stat3; egfr; drug resistance; dna repair; lung cancer; breast cancer; prostate cancer; glioblastoma; septic shock

Jonathan Mark Brown, PhD
Research Interests:
lipid metabolism; lipoprotein metabolism; atherosclerosis; obesity; diabetes; reverse cholesterol transport; triacylglycerol; nutrition

Donna M. Driscoll, PhD
Research Interests:
rna biology; mrna translational control; nutritional regulation of gene expression; selenium

Paul L Fox, PhD
Research Interests:
angiogenesis; atherosclerosis; cell migration; endothelial cells; iron metabolism; macrophages; translational control

Stanley L. Hazen, MD, PhD
Research Interests:
inflammation; atherosclerosis; asthma; myeloperoxidase; cardiovascular diseases; hdl; peroxidases; airway remodeling; intestinal microbiota; gut flora; cardiometabolic disease

Justin Lathia, PhD
Research Interests:
cancer stem cells; brain tumors; cell to cell communication; in vivo imaging

Richard A. Padgett, PhD
Research Interests:
transcription; rna processing; rna splicing; splicing factors; relation to cancer and developmental diseases; gene structure and function; genomics; evolution of genomes; rna biochemistry

Jonathan D. Smith, PhD
Research Interests:
atherosclerosis; hdl metabolism; atrial fibrillation; genetics; genomics; eqtl; gene expression; reverse cholesterol transport; dysfunctional hdl; rnaseq; allelic expression imbalance; abca1; mouse models; zinc finger nuclease

Charis Eng, MD, PhD
Research Interests:
cancer genetics; cancer genomic medicine; cancer research; cancer family history; cancer predisposition; cancer susceptibility; heritable cancer syndromes; cowden syndrome; integrative genomics; cancer metagenomics; microbiome; metabolome; breast cancer; thyroid cancer; endocrine cancer; pheochromocytoma; autism research; pten; sdha; sdhb; sdhc; sdhd; klln; killin

Angela H Ting,, PhD
Research Interests:
cancer; epigenetics; dna methylation; prostate cancer; colon cancer; genomics; high throughput sequencing

Bin Zhang,, PhD
Research Interests:
mechanism of intracellular trafficking in human disease development; protein secretion; endoplasmic reticulum stress; cargo receptors; cardiovascular diseases; cancer.

William M. Baldwin, MD, PhD
Research Interests:
cardiac and renal allograft rejection, vascular inflammation

Robert L. Fairchild, PhD
Research Interests:
skin disease, skin and cardiac allograft rejection, t cell recruitment to inflammation in peripheral tissues

Feng Lin, PhD
Research Interests:
complement ; innate immunity; autoimmune diseases; transplant rejection; stem cells; multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, posterior uveitis

Anna Valujskikh, PhD
Research Interests:
immunologic memory; memory t-cells; allograft rejection; transplantation; therapies for transplant recipients

Sathyamangla Venkata Naga Prasad, PhD
Research Interests:
beta-adrenergic receptor resensitization; non-canonical pi3k signaling; cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure; micrornas in heart failure and cardiac remodeling.

Olga Stenina Adognravi, PhD
Research Interests:
diabetes; vascular complications; hyperglycemia; angiogenesis; atherosclerosis; gene regulation; transcription; translation; microrna; extracellular matrix; thrombospondin.

David Van Wagoner, PhD
Research Interests:
atrial fibrillation; arrhythmia mechanisms; calcium channels; cellular electrophysiology; fibrosis; genetics of cardiovascular disease; inflammatory mechanisms of cardiovascular disease; ion channel biology; patch clamp; potassium channels; nitric oxide regulation; s-nitrosylation; stroke.

Bruce D Trapp, PhD
Research Interests:
multiple sclerosis; glia; oligodendrocytes; astrocytes; neuroprotection; myelin; autism

Bela Anand-Apte, MBBS, PhD
Research Interests:
eye; angiogenesis; diabetic retinopathy; blood retinal barrier; retinal vascular leakage; macular edema; macular degeneration; sorsbys fundus dystrophy; tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases

Brian D. Perkins, PhD
Research Interests:
zebrafish; retina; photoreceptor; cilia; cep290; microrna;

Carol de la Motte, PhD
Research Interests:
inflammatory bowel disease; inflammation; leukocyte adhesion; platelet hyaluronidase; human milk glycans; hyaluronan; intestinal protection; beta defensins; salmonella infection;

Serpil C. Erzurum, MD
Research Interests:
asthma; pulmonary vascular disease; hypoxia; metabolism

Christine McDonald, PhD
Research Interests:
inflammatory bowel disease; crohn's disease; anti-bacterial defenses; skin infection; nod2; innate immunity; autoinflammatory disease; antibiotic-resistant bacteria; diet; microbes; genetics

Laura Nagy, PhD
Research Interests:
alcoholic liver disease; macrophages; c1q; apoptosis; fibrosis; liver disease; alcohol; heme-oxygenase-1; inflammation; necroptosis; high-fat diet; liver injury; fatty liver disease; complement; hepatocytes; alcoholic hepatitis; hepatic stellate cell; adiponectin; mif; carbon tetrachloride

Emina Huang, MD
Research Interests:
colorectal cancer; inflammation; colitis; cancer stem cells; organoids; microenvironment

Jan Jensen, PhD
Research Interests:
diabetes; pancreas development; insulin-producing cells; stem cell therapy