| Steve Ackerman | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation, Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Eosinophil effector functions in inflammation and tissue remodeling in asthma and allergy, regulation of eosinophil development |
| Solomon Afelik | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Surgery | We study pancreas development and regeneration. We are especially interested in signaling pathway mediated cell fate decisions in the pancreas. |
| Olusola Ajilore | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Simon T. Alford | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Waddah A Alrefai | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
| Jon Art | Neurobiology, Integrative and Translational Physiology, Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Physiology & biophysics of hair cells and their synapses in the inner ear |
| Jose Al Arruda | Integrative and Translational Physiology |
| Judith Behnsen | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology | We study the role of the bacterial and fungal microbiota during Salmonella pathogenesis using in vitro and in vivo systems (germ-free mice). |
| Elizaveta Benevolenskaya | Molecular and Structural Biology, Cancer Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | The role of tumor suppressor pRB in differentiation through epigenetic mechanisms such as regulating histone demethylases. |
| Ernesto R. Bongarzone | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | White matter disease, Parkinson’s, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Proteopathy |
| Maarten C. Bosland | Cancer Biology | Pathology | Prostate cancer; cancer prevention; anticancer effects of natural compounds; experimental pathology |
| Marlene Bouvier | Molecular and Structural Biology | Microbiology and Immunology | Our research activities are focused on the cell biology, immunology, and structural biology of class I MHC molecules |
| Scott T. Brady | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Axonal transport, Neuronal Cytoskeleton, Neurodegeneration |
| Mark S. Brodie | Neurobiology | Physiology and Biophysics | Electrophysiology of ventral tegmental area neurons in brain slices; actions of ethanol on the central nervous system |
| Michael Caffrey | Molecular and Structural Biology, Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Biophysical Studies of Virus Entry |
| Michael Carrithers | Neurobiology | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Zheng W. Chen | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Emma Childs | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Jaehyung (Gus) Cho | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation, Integrative and Translational Physiology | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | My lab studies the molecular mechanisms of cell-cell interactions in thrombosis and vascular inflammation. |
| Konstantinos Chronis | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Stem Cell Biology, Reprogramming, Epigenetics, Genome architecture, Engineering Cell fate |
| Oscar Colamonici | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Karen Colley | Molecular and Structural Biology, Cell Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Control and organization of protein glycosylation and the role of glycans in protein function. |
| Jonathan Coloff | Cancer Biology | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Edwin Cook | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Jose Cordoba-Chacon | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | Hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Regulation of glucose production by conjugated linoleic acids. |
| Henar Cuervo Grajal | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Robert Danziger | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Cardiology |
| Dawood Darbar | Integrative and Translational Physiology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cardiology |
| Luisa A DiPietro | Integrative and Translational Physiology, Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Periodontics | Wound healing, tissue regeneration, response to injury |
| Alan M. Diamond | Cancer Biology, Molecular and Structural Biology | Pathology | Role of selenium containing proteins in prostate cancer risk and outcome |
| Robert J Donati | Integrative and Translational Physiology |
| Erbo Dong | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Xiaoping Du | Molecular and Structural Biology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | Molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion, migration, signaling; platelets, thrombosis, inflammation; develop new drugs |
| Pradeep K. Dudeja | Integrative and Translational Physiology, Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Medicine | Pathophysiology of Diarrheal Diseases, IBD Associated Diarrhea, Gut-Microbe Interactions, Probiotics as antidiarrheals |
| Steven Dudek | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Integrative and Translational Physiology | Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy | Endothelial cell biology, cytoskeletal regulation of vascular leak, inflammatory lung syndromes |
| Ekrem Emrah Er | Cancer Biology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Physiology and Biophysics | We study mechanochemical signal transduction between cancer cells-extracellular matrix-immunity during melanoma and breast cancer metastasis. |
| Michael Federle | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Douglas Feinstein | Neurobiology | Anesthesiology | Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol abuse, Vitamin K, glia, myelin, oligodendrocytes, genetic risk factor SNPs, environmental toxins |
| Patricia W Finn | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Medicine | Immune-microbiome interactions in pulmonary disorders, including asthma, sarcoidosis, and transplantation. |
| Jonna Frasor | Cancer Biology | Physiology and Biophysics | Endocrinology, hormone receptors, cancer therapeutics, |
| Nancy Freitag | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology | Interests in host-pathogen interactions, mechanisms used by microbes to cause disease, and how common drugs suppress immunity to infection. |
| Maxim Frolov | Cancer Biology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Retinoblastoma and Hippo tumor suppressor pathways, Single cell genomics and Cell Atlas |
| Ron Gaba | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Radiology | Novel animal models of liver disease and liver cancer (the Oncopig Cancer Model); Interventional Oncology and innovative drug delivery approaches; cancer genomics |
| Peter H. Gann | Cancer Biology | Pathology | Intratumoral heterogeneity in breast cancer, Racial disparity in prostate cancer |
| Vadim Gaponenko | Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
| David Gavin | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Ravinder K. Gill | Integrative and Translational Physiology |
| Maria Irene Givogri | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Gliogenesis, pathophysiology of white matter disease, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy,Multiple sclerosis and extracelluar vesicles |
| Elizabeth Glover | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Frank Gonzalez | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Swetha Gowrishankar | Neurobiology | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Delineating the mechanisms underlying neuronal lysosome formation with a specific focus on neurodegenerative diseases |
| Dennis Grayson | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Paul Grippo | Cancer biology | Gastroenterology and Hepatology | Cell signals, their interplay with fatty acids and overall impact on cancer |
| Alessandro Guidotti | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Anantha Harjith | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Medicine |
| Nissim Hay | Cancer Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Emphasis on the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling and cancer metabolism both at the cellular and organismal levels using mouse models of cancer. |
| Bin He | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology | Herpesvirus, innate immunity, virus-host interaction, oncolytic virus and vaccine |
| Ahlke Heydemann | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Guochang Hu | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Anesthesiology | Acute lung injuey, innate immune response and inflammation, vascualr endothelial barrier, sepsis |
| Nao Ikegaki | Cancer Biology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Neuroblastoma pathogenesis, MYC family proteins |
| Christopher Janson | Neurobiology | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Yuwei Jiang | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Physiology and Biophysics | Adipose stem cell, vascular niche plasticity, and their impact on metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. |
| Barbara Jung | Cancer biology | Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
| Andre Kajdacsy-Balla | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Pathology | Environmental cadmium effect on prostate cancer progression and on early atherosclerosis. |
| Jack Kaplan | Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
| Andrei Karginov | Molecular and Structural Biology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Pharmacology | Protein engineering and synthetic biology, Cell-cell interactions and cell migration. |
| Alisa L. Katzen | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
| Andrius Kazlauskas | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Integrative and Translational Physiology, Microbiology, Immunity and Inflammation | Physiology and Biophysics; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | My research program seeks to improve treatment options for patients afflicted by blinding eye diseases and is focused on signaling events that govern angiogenic homeostasis. |
| Linda Kenney | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Amy L. Kenter | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation, Molecular and Structural Biology | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Jiyeon Kim | Cancer Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Investigating correlation between oncogenotypes and metabolic reprogramming, and identifying metabolic vulnerabilities |
| Rhonda Kineman | Integrative and Translational Physiology |
| Jan K. Kitajewski | Integrative and Translational Physiology, Cancer Biology | Physiology and Biophysics | Vascular Biology, Angiogenesis, Tumor Microenvironment, |
| Yulia Komarova | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Integrative and Translational Physiology | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Shafi Kuchay | Cancer Biology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of protein degradation at cellular membranes via ubiquitylation |
| Mary Jo LaDu | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | We focus on the interactions of two proteins that are genetically linked to Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid-beta peptide and apolipoprotein E. |
| Primal de Lanerolle | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Scott Langnecker | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| John Larson | Neurobiology | Psychiatry | Learning & Memory, Synaptic Plasticity, Autism |
| Amy Lasek | Neurobiology | Psychiatry | Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying alcohol and drug addiction; hormonal factors and sex differences in addiction |
| Lester Lau | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Extracellular matrix signaling in wound healing, inflammation, and tissue regeneration. |
| Arnon Lavie | Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
| Brian Thomas Layden | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Endocrinology/Diabetes and Metabolism |
| Orly Lazarov | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Molecular and cellular processes underlying cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease; hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity. |
| Monica Lee | Integrative and Translational Physiology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Physiology & Biophysics | Endothelial cell function, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis |
| Renee de Leeuw | Cancer biology | Pathology | Kinase and phosphatase signaling in prostate cancer progression |
| Alex Leow (Wei-Hsun Liao) | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Irena Levitan | Integrative and Translational Physiology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy |
| Xiubei Liao | Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
| Chong Wee Liew | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Physiology and Biophysics | Transcriptional regulation of adipocyte biology and whole body energy metabolism as well as functional maturation of the pancreatic b-cell. |
| Yuru Liu | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | We study the mechanisms that controls alveolar type II cells to behave as stem cells during lung repair |
| Jeffery Loeb | Neurobiology | Neurology and Rehabilitation |
| Sarah E. Lutz | Neurobiology, Integrative and Translational Physiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Anna Lysakowski | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Alexander V. Lyubimov | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Donna MacDuff | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology | We study inflammation, interferons and innate immunity to viral and bacterial challenges, using small animal models, cell culture systems, biochemical analyses |
| Ajay V Maker | Cancer biology | Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology |
| Asrar B Malik | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Integrative and Translational Physiology, Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation, Cancer Biology | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | I study mechanisms of inflammation that underlie cardiovascular diseases . I challenge my trainees is to ask transformational questions. |
| Glenn Marsboom | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Pharmacology | Pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, energy metabolism, vascular dysfunction, lung endothelium |
| Jason McAnany | Neurobiology | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Non-invasive assessment of visual function and structure in patients who have acquired and inherited retinal degenerative diseases. |
| Alan McLachlan | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology | Hepatitis B virus (HBV), gene regulation, hepatocellular carcinoma, mouse development, DNA methylation |
| Dolly Mehta | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation, Integrative and Translational Physiology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Brad Merrill | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, Wnt Signaling, Stem Cell Biology, and Synthetic Biology |
| Richard Minshall | Integrative and Translational Physiology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Gary Mo | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Molecular and Structural Biology | Pharmacology | Visualization of compartmentalized live cell signaling at super-resolution. Imaging of complex tissue biochemical interplay in living organisms. |
| Gerardo Morfini | Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Kinase-based intracellular signaling relevant to axonal function in health and disease. |
| Alexandra Naba | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Cancer Biology | Physiology and Biophysics | My lab uses cutting-edge proteomics and bioinformatics to study the role of the extracellular matrix in development, health, and cancer. |
| Toru Nakamura | Molecular and Structural Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of telomere maintenance mechanism |
| Viswanathan Natarajan | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | Areas of Interest: Endothelial Permeability; Bioactive Lipid Mediators in lung inflammation and injury; Mitochondria in lung cancer |
| Natalia Nieto | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Integrative and Translational Physiology, Cancer Biology | Pathology | Liver, fibrosis, alcoholic liver disease, cancer |
| Larisa Nonn | Cancer Biology | Pathology | Prostate cancer, vitamin D, microRNA, health disparities |
| Adam Oberstein | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation. | Microbiology and Immunology | Herpesvirus host-pathogen interaction; computational virology; oncolytic herpesviruses. |
| J. Michael O’Donnell | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Physiology and Biophysics | Cardiac function and metabolism in heart disease |
| Sang Ging Ong | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Kostandin Pajcini | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | We work on Notch signaling in hematopoietic development and disorders and we study how blood stem cells are formed in the fetal environment. |
| Ghanshyam Pandey | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Subhash Pandey | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Omar Perez | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Pathology | Understanding the virus-host interaction using a systems virology approach, single cell transcriptomics, NGS, antiviral pharmacodynamics. |
| David Perkins | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Medicine | Analysis of the metagenome in health and disease; functional interactions between the microbiome and the host |
| Christian J Peters | Molecular and Structural Biology, Neurobiology | Anatomy and Cell Biology | The Peters lab is interested in the mechanisms by which the function, regulation and cellular distribution of neuronal ion channel proteins regulates nicotine seeking and avoidance behaviors. |
| Luan K. Phan (Kinh Luan Phan) | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Neil Pliskin | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Carol Podlasek | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Urology | We study peripheral nerve regeneration, penile remodeling in response to nerve injury and disease, and nanomaterial delivery of proteins to regenerate muscle. |
| Sergey Popov | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Bellur S. Prabhakar | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation, Cancer Biology | Microbiology and Immunology | Induction of tolerance to treat autoimmune diseases; Cancer biology; MADD function in Anaplastic Thyroid cancer |
| Amynah Pradhan | Neurobiology | Psychiatry |
| Gail S. Prins | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Urology | Prostate stem cells, prostate cancer, developmental programming, steroid receptors, estrogenic and environmental exposures |
| Usha Raj | Integrative and Translational Physiology | Pediatrics |
| Ajay Rana | Cancer biology | Surgery |
| Basabi Rana | Cancer biology | Surgery | Signal transduction and transcriptional regulation of growth/apoptosis and mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in cancer |
| Mrinalini C. Rao | Molecular and Structural Biology | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Mark M. Rasenick | Neurobiology, Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Physiology and Biophysics | G protein signaling, the cytoskeleton and lipid rafts: Neurobiology of Depression and antidepressants. |
| Pradip Raychaudhuri | Cancer Biology | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | FoxM1 and Tumor Metastasis |
| Jalees Rehman | Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Microbiology, Immunity and Inflammation, Integrative and Translational Physiology | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine | Stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration, Host defense/Inflammation and metabolism, Blood brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease |
| Justin M. Richner | Microbiology, Immunity, and Inflammation | Microbiology and Immunology | Viral Immunology, vaccine development |