Sadashiva Karnik, Ph.D. Staff Department of Molecular Cardiology Lerner Research Institute / NB50 9500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44195 Telephone : (216) 444-1269 Fax : (216) 444-9263 karniks@ccf.org

Area of general research interest:

GPCR Structure-function, Signal Transduction, Cell Growth

Current program:

• Molecular mechanism of Ang II receptor function
• Mechanism of death in AT₂ receptor expressing cells
• Influence of genomic variation on gene expression

Investigators:

• Bhatnagar, Anushree, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
• Brown, Virginia, Animal Husbandry Technician
• Desnoyer, Russell, B.S., Technologist
• Jagannathan, Rajaganapathi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
• Unal, Hamiyet, Graduate Student
• Yue, Hong, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow

Collaborators:

• Thomas, Walter, G., Ph.D., Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
• Moravec, Christine, S., Ph.D., Center for Anesthesiology Research, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
• Ahsan Husain, Ph.D., University of Alabama Medical School, Birmingham, Alabama