Research Projects
| Mentor & Department | Research Area |
|---|---|
| Abdel-Malek, Zalfa PhD Dermatology | Regulation of human pigmentation, photobiology and photocarcinogenesis, genetic susceptibility to melanoma; role of melanocortins and the melanocortin 1 receptor |
| Askew, David PhD Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Research Area: cellular immunology of fungal infections, therapeutic strategies for fungus-host infections |
| Baccei, Mark PhD Anesthesiology | Research Area: early life stress and pain biology, neurodevelopment and neuropharmacology |
| Blackard, Jason PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases | Research Area: infectious diseases, translational research focusing on human and mechanistic studies to understand virus-virus and virus-host interactions |
| Borchers, Michael PhD Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Division | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) |
| Conforti, Laura PhD Nephrology | Ion channels and membrane mechanisms that regulate activation and function of human lymphocytes in cancer and autoimmunity |
| Deepe, George PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease | Research Area: Cellular immunology of fungal infections, T-cell biology and immunopharmacology |
| Gudelsky, Gary PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy | Neuropharmacology of amphetamines |
| Hildeman, David PhD Department of Pediatirics, Division of Immunology | Molecular factors that control the decision between tolerance and immunity within T lymphocytes; mechanisms underlying sex-based differences in T cell responses and how these differences relate to autoimmune disease |
| Holland, Christy PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases | Bioeffects of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound |
| Kao, Winston PhD Ophthalmology | Treatment of eye disease and eye trauma; transplantation of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (UMSC) into cornea stroma |
Kirley, Terry | Protein expresson and refolding, cysteine and disulfide chemistry and analysis |
| Kotagiri, Nalinikanth PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences | Research Area: photonanomedicine, experimental cancer therapeutics |
| Li, Kevin PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy | Drug delivery, transdermal delivery, non-invasive pharmacokinetics |
| McGraw, Dennis MD Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Division | G-protein receptor signaling, asthma, adrenergic receptors, airway smooth muscle |
| Miller, William PhD Molecular Genetics | Mechanism of microbial pathogenesis to manipulate host cell signal transduction pathways |
| Norman, Andrew PhD Pharmacology & Cell Biophysics | Medications for treatment of cocaine abuse; drug self-administration |
| Ramsey, Laura PhD Department of Pediatrics | Research Area: Pharmacogenomics/genetics and role of pharmacokinetics |
| Robson, Matthew PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences | Research Area: traumatic brain injury, neuropharmacology, neurobehavioral, interleukin signaling |
| Schultz, Jo El PhD, Program Director Pharmacology and Systems Physiology | Approaches to myocardial injury protection; molecular mechanism of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure, growth factors, angiogenesis and muscle regeneration, opioid system |
| Tranter, Michael PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases | Research Area: post-transcriptional gene regulation in cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis or ischemia-reperfusion injury |
| Vinks, Alexander PhD, PharmD Department of Pediatrics, Division of Clinical Pharmacology | Clinical pharmacology, population-based PK/PD modeling, pharmacogenomics |
| Waltz, Susan PhD Cancer & Cell Biology | Ron receptor tyrosine kinase and growth factors, mechanism regulating cancer growth and metastasis and inflammation |
| Wang, Hong-Sheng PhD Pharmacology & Cell Biophysics | Role of ion channels controlling electrical and mechanical properties of cardiac cells; heart failure and arrhythmias |
| Weber, Georg PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy | cancer, metastasis, cytokines, osteopontin |
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