Faculty Directory – Integrative and Translational Physiology
| Faculty Name | Department | Research Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Waddah A Alrefai | Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
| Jon Art | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Physiology & biophysics of hair cells and their synapses in the inner ear |
| Jose Al Arruda |
| Jose Cordoba-Chacon | 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 | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Robert Danziger | Cardiology |
| Dawood Darbar | Cardiology |
| Luisa A DiPietro | Periodontics | Wound healing, tissue regeneration, response to injury |
| Robert J Donati |
| Pradeep K. Dudeja | Medicine | Pathophysiology of Diarrheal Diseases, IBD Associated Diarrhea, Gut-Microbe Interactions, Probiotics as antidiarrheals. |
| Steven Dudek | Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy | Endothelial cell biology, cytoskeletal regulation of vascular leak, inflammatory lung syndromes |
| Ron Gaba | Radiology | Novel animal models of liver disease and liver cancer (the Oncopig Cancer Model); Interventional Oncology and innovative drug delivery approaches; cancer genomics |
| Frank Gonzalez | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Anatha Harjith | Medicine |
| Ahlke Heydemann | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Guochang Hu | Anesthesiology | Acute lung injuey, innate immune response and inflammation, vascualr endothelial barrier, sepsis |
| Yuwei Jiang | Physiology and Biophysics | Adipose stem cell, vascular niche plasticity, and their impact on metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. |
| Jian-Ping Jin | Physiology and Biophysics | Structure-function relationship of myofilament and cytoskeleton proteins in muscle contractility, cell motility and cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology. |
| Andre Kajdacsy-Balla | Pathology | Environmental cadmium effect on prostate cancer progression and on early atherosclerosis. |
| Andrius Kazlauskas | 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. |
| Rhonda Kineman |
| Jan K. Kitajewski | Physiology and Biophysics | Vascular Biology, Angiogenesis, Tumor Microenvironment, |
| Yulia Komarova | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Brian Thomas Layden | Endocrinology/Diabetes and Metabolism |
| Monica Lee | Physiology & Biophysics | Endothelial cell function, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis |
| Irena Levitan | Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy |
| Chong Wee Liew | Physiology and Biophysics | Transcriptional regulation of adipocyte biology and whole body energy metabolism as well as functional maturation of the pancreatic b-cell. |
| Sarah E. Lutz | Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Asrar B Malik | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | I study mechanisms of inflammation that underlie cardiovascular diseases. I challenge my trainees is to ask transformational questions. |
| Dolly Mehta | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Richard Minshall | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
| Abeer Mohamed | Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | We conduct translational research to study the role of adipose tissue secretions in the initiation and progression of obesity-related morbidities including cardiometabolic diseases and cancer |
| Viswanathan Natarajan | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | Areas of Interest: Endothelial Permeability; Bioactive Lipid Mediators in lung inflammation and injury; Mitochondria in lung cancer |
| Natalia Nieto | Pathology | Liver, fibrosis, alcoholic liver disease, cancer |
| J. Michael O’Donnell | Physiology and Biophysics | Cardiac function and metabolism in heart disease |
| David Perkins | Surgery | Analysis of the metagenome in health and disease; functional interactions between the microbiome and the host. |
| Usha Raj | Pediatrics |
| Jalees Rehman | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration, Host defense/Inflammation and metabolism, Blood brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease |
| Rob Sargis | Endocrinology/Diabetes and Metabolism | Environmental Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the Pathogenesis of Metabolic Disorders |
| Dan Shaye | Physiology and Biophysics | Tubulogenesis, C. elegans, Angiogenesis, Vascular Development and Disease, Kidney Development and Disease |
| R. John Solaro | Physiology and Biophysics | Cardiac and Vascular Dysfunction and Therapies in Cardiomyopathies |
| Carlos Stocco | Physiology and Biophysics | Our research focuses on the processes controlling ovarian function and the hormone signaling and genomic pathways regulating fertility. |
| Terry G Unterman | Endocrinology/Diabetes and Metabolism |
| Terry Vanden Hoek | Emergency Medicine |
| Almudena Veiga-Lopez | Pathology | Environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the pathogenesis of pregnancy and adult diseases. |
| Michael John Walsh | Pathology |
| Beata M. Wolska | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Pingwen Xu | Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | Central estrogenic regulation of obesity, diabetes, alcohol binge drinking and fear extinction. |