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Last Name First Name Research/Clinical Interest Title Keywords
AGARWAL ANUPAM Regulation of heme oxygenase gene expression in kidney and vascular injury heme oxygenase, acute kidney injury, transplant nephrology, lymphangiogenesis
AGARWAL GAURAV
AL-BALAS ALIAN
ALLON MICHAEL Vascular access in dialysis Dialysis, vascular access, fistula, graft, dialysis catheter, infection.
ALMEHMI AMMAR
ANDERSON AMANDA
ARORA MEENAKSHI
ARORA PANKAJ Racial differences in Natriuretic Peptide response to glucose challenge Non-invasive cardiology, patient care, deficiencies in natriuretic peptide signaling, microRNAs, vitamin D, obesity and cardiometabolic disease
ASKENAZI DAVID Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury acute renal failure,acute kidney injury, neonates, biomarkers, epidemiology
ATHAR MOHAMMAD
BAILEY SHANNON Molecular mechanisms of chronic alcohol and obesity induced fatty liver disease Molecular mechanisms of alcohol and obesity induced liver diseases; Mitochondrial dysfunction in disease; Molecular bioenergetics; Circadian biology; Redox Signaling; Toxicology
BAJAJ NAVKARANBIR
BALKOVETZ DANIEL Epithelial Cell Biology; Epithelial Cell Signal Regulation; Regulation of paracellular transport across epithelial cell tight junctions epithelial cells, claudins, tight junctions, E-cadherin, hepatocyte growth factor, ERK, MDCK
BARNES STEPHEN Bile acids, polyphenols and metabolism, and their effects on protein expression and function in chronic disease bile acids, isoflavonoids and polyphenols, metabolomics, proteomics, mass spectrometry
BECKER BRYAN
BELL EMMY
BELLIS SUSAN Role of glycosylation in tumor progression and metastasis tumorigenesis, metastasis, cancer stem cell, cell invasion, apoptosis, tumor immunology,
BERGMAN SUZANNE
BEVENSEE MARK Cellular and Molecular Physiology of Acid-base Transporters and pH Regulation acid-base, bicarbonate, transporter, brain, fluorescence dyes, glia , heart, intracellular pH, microelectrodes, neuron, Xenopus oocyte, neuronal firing, kidney, polycystic kidney disease, epithelial sodium channel
BJORNSTAD ERICA
BOLISETTY SUBHASHINI Mechanisms of injury and repair during Acute Kidney Injury Ferritin, iron, heme oxygenase, macrophages, inflammation, acute kidney injury, sepsis
BROWN ELIZABETH Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology of Immune-Mediated Clinical Phenotypes multiple myeloma, autoimmune, lupus, genetics, genomics, epidemiology
CAO LIYUN
CHATHAM JOHN Cardiomyocyte function and survival in ischemia/reperfusion and the impact of diabetes: Myocardial ischemia, diabetic cardiomyopathy, O-GlcNAc, STIM1, Ca2+-signaling
CHEN JAKE Bioinformatics, Data Mining, and Systems Biology for Precision Medicine Applications Bioinformatics, data mining, data sciences, systems biology, biomarkers, drug discovery application, cancer genomics, personalized medicine
CHEN JIN
COOK JARED
CRIVELLI JOSEPH
CURTIS LISA Aging and gender in acute kidney injury acute kidney injury, aging, stem cells, heme oxygenase-1, gender, female
CUTTER GARY
DANIEL SHAWONA
DARLEY-USMAR VICTOR Mitochondrial Health; Bench to Bedside mitochondria, nitric oxide, reactive oxygen species, bioenergetic dysfunciton, translational research
DE MIGUEL GARIJO MARIA DEL CARMEN Role of endothelin in hypertension-mediated inflammation and end-organ damage Inflammation, Kidney damage, Hypertension, Diabetes
DELL'ITALIA LOUIS Mechanisms of Remodeling of the Heart in Heart Failure
FARGUE SONIA
FATHALLAH-SHAYKH SAHAR
FAUL CHRISTIAN The role of endocrine Fibroblast Growth Factors in Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes and in associated pathologies. chronic kidney disease, uremic cardiomyopathy, diabetic cardiomyopathy, FGF23, FGF21, Klotho, signal transduction
FEIG DANIEL
FENG WENGUANG The Role of Transcription Factor ETS-1 in Hypertensive Renal Damage and Vascular Disease ETS-1, Vascular Injury, Arteriovenous Fistula Dysfunction, Neointima, Inflammation, Cytokines, Hypertension, Renal Injury
FULLER CATHERINE ENaC/ASIC Ion Channels; Sodium channels, glioma, migration, proliferation, cancer, signaling, polycystic kidney disease
GARVEY W. Molecular and physiological pathogenesis of human insulin resistance Insulin resistance, obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes
GASTON ROBERT
GAZAWAY SHENA
GEORGE JAMES Immune regulation of post-transplant vascular disease and allograft rejection Transplantation, Heme oxygenase, Stress, Vascular disease, Heart disease, Nephrology
GHAZI LAMA
GRAY MEAGAN
GREEN TODD virology, immunology, antibodies, kidney disease, nephropathy, protein structure, crystallography
GUAN ZHENGRONG
GUTIERREZ ORLANDO Mineral metabolism and outcomes
HAGE FADI
HOWARD VIRGINIA
HYNDMAN KELLY Novel mechanisms of HDAC1 regulation of collecting duct function. nitric oxide, endothelin, collecting duct, histone deacetylase, Aquaporin-2
ILONZE CHIBUZO
INSCHO EDWARD Physiology and pathophysiology of the renal microcirculation microcirculation, afferent arterioles, autoregulation, inflammation, purinoceptors, endothelin, renal injury, Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)
JAIN GAURAV
JUDD ERIC
JULIAN BRUCE IgA nephropathy, recurrent disease in renal allografts, erythropoiesis after renal transplantation IgA nephropathy, kidney transplantation, erythropoiesis, glomerulonephritis
KANTER JULIE
KASZTAN MALGORZATA
KEW CLIFTON
KLUG CHRISTOPHER Hematopoietic stem cell biology, acute leukemia, and pancreatic cancer
KNIGHT JOHN Oxalate Handling and Synthesis and its Relationship to Health and Disease Calcium oxalate kidney stone disease, Oxalobacter formigenes, primary hyperoxaluria
KOOMULLIL ROY
KUMAR VINEETA NIH Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT-2) B-Cell Depletion by Anti-CD20 (Rituximab) in Renal Allograft Recipients Who Develop de novo Anti-HLA Alloantibodies Will Result in Inhibition of Alloantibody Production and Attenuation of Chroni desensitization, paired kidney donation, HLA and ABO incompatible, DSA - donor specific antibody, living kidney, palliative care, advanced communication donation, HLA crossmatch
LASSEIGNE BRITTANY
LEASK MEGAN
LEBENSBURGER JEFFREY
LEE RACHAEL
LEE TIMMY Translational Research in Hemodialysis Vascular Access Arteriovenous Fistula, Arteriovenous Graft, Dialysis Catheter, Neointimal Hyperplasia, Endothelial Dysfunction, Oxidative Stress, and Inflammation
LIMDI NITA Pharmacogenomics research and Implementation Science Personalized Medicine, Precision Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Implemental Science, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Warfarin , Antiplatelet drugs, Antithrombotic, comparative effectiveness
LITOVSKY SILVIO Periadventitial Fat, Volume Overload, Purkinje Fibers, Left Ventricular Ostium, arteriovenous fistula, arteriovenous graft
LOCKE JAYME John Merrill Grant in Transplantation Development renal transplantation, liver transplantation, pancreas transplantation
LU YAN
LYAS CLARETHA
MAJETI RAVIKUMAR
MCCORMICK LISA
MCGUIRE BRENDAN liver, hepatology, tranplantation, hepatic encephalopathy
MEHTA SHIKHA
MERRIMAN TONY
MICHALEK SUZANNE Immunological mechanisms involved in host/microbial interactions, and development of mucosal vaccines against infectious agents mucosal vaccines, inflammation, TLRs, T cell, cytokines, signaling pathways
MITCHELL TANECIA The Role of Mitochondria in Immune Cells in Urological Disorders Mitochondria, Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, Immune Cells, Kidney Stones, Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome
MOBLEY JAMES Director, UAB CCC Mass Spectrometry/ Proteomics Shared Facility Cancer, Prostate, Pancreatic, Breast, Biomarkers, Mass Spectrometry
MRUG MICHAL Pathogenesis of polycystic kidney disease progression polycystic kidney disease, innate immunity, genome-wide expression profiling, animal models
MRUG SYLVIE
MUGAVERO MICHAEL
NEYRA LOZANO JAVIER
NOVAK JAN Pathogenesis and treatments of chronic diseases, infectious diseases, cancer. IgA nephropathy. Mucosal immunology. Biomarkers.
NOVAKOVA LEA Histology Histology
ODUM JAMES
ONG SONG
PANWAR BHUPESH
PATEL RAKESH Modulation of Inflammation by Reactive Species and N-glycans vascular, hemoglobin, red cells, Inflammation, isoflavones, Nitric oxide, nitrite, N-glycan, matrikine
PATI PARAMITA
PENG JI-BIN Calcium transport proteins and their roles in health and disease Calcium transport, absorption, reabsorption, hyercalciuria, hypertension, TRPV6, TRPV5, WNK4
POLLOCK DAVID Hypertension and Renal Disease hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell, hemodynamics, endothelin, nitric oxide, kidney, sodium
POLLOCK JENNIFER
PONNAZHAGAN SELVARANGAN Experimental Cancer Therapeutics and BOne Diseases: From Basic to Preclinical Studies Breast Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Osteoimmunology; Bone Metastasis; Osteogenesis; Bone Fracture; Stem Cell Therapy
RAHMAN AKM FAZLUR
RAJASEKARAN ARUN
REILY COLIN
RENFROW MATTHEW Analysis of Protein Glycosylation in Human Disease by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FT-MS), protein glycosylation, IgA O-glycosylation, IgA nephropathy, proteomics, glycoproteomics
RIZK DANA 1-Bardoxolone Methyl Evaluation in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: the Occurrence of Renal Events (BEACON). Glomerular diseases, IgA nephropathy, Membranous nephropathy, Minimal change disease, Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
ROSTAND STEPHEN Senior Scientist, Nephrology Research and Training Center Hypertension, Kidney disease, Soft tissue calcification, Cardiovascular disease, Minority groups
RUTSKY EDWIN
SAIGUSA TAKAMITSU The role of wheat-gluten in PKD Polycystic Kidney Disease, Tuberous Sclerosis complex, Chronic Kidney Disease
SANDERS PAUL Mechanisms of Disease Progression in the Kidney salt-sensitive hypertension, transforming growth factor-ß, nitric oxide, hypertensive nephrosclerosis, monoclonal immunoglobulin light-chain-related renal diseases
SCHOEB TRENTON Pathology and phenotyping of mutant mice; gnotobiotic mouse models of chronic inflammatory diseases
SEAY NORMAN
SEIFERT MICHAEL
SETHU PALANIAPPAN cardiac and vascular models, mechanical stresses, cardiac regeneration, normal and disturbed flow
SHARER JON Clinical Biochemical Genetics Biochemical genetics, inherited metabolic disorders, biomarkers, metabolites, tandem mass spectrometry, regulatory mechanisms
SIDDIQUI MOHAMMED
SIEGAL GENE Gene therapy of solid tumors, cancer biology, tumors of bone Bone Tumors, Cancer Gene Therapy, Invasion and Metastasis
SORACE ANNA
SUDARSHAN SUNIL The Metabolic Basic of Kidney Cancer tumor metabolism, epigenetics, renal cancer
SZTUL ELIZABETH Membrane Traffic; Protein Degradation Cystic fibrosis, membrane traffic, degradation, quality control
TAMHANE ASHUTOSH
THORNLEY-BROWN DENYSE
TIWARI HEMANT Genetic association/linkage analysis Obesity, SLE, RA, Epilepsy
TOLWANI ASHITA Acute Renal Failure, Acute Kidney Injury, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, Critical Care Medicine
UNLAP M. Drug Discovery in Cancer, Cystic Fibrosis, Tuberculosis, Parkinson's Disease and Oxidative Stress In Hypertension drug discovery, oxidative stress, cancer, parkinson's disease, hypertension, exchanger, molecular beacon, latent tb
VARAMBALLY SOORYANARAYANA Cancer molecular genetics, Cancer Biomarker Discovery, Cancer Biology and Therapeutic Targeting UALCAN, TCGA, CPTAC, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Proteomics, Biomarker, Integrative Cancer Biology and Therapeutics.
WALLACE ERIC Telemedicine in the provision of Remote Peritoneal Dialysis Care Peritoneal Dialysis, Rural Healthcare, Telemedicine, Fabry Disease
WARNOCK DAVID Renal REGARDS, Fabry Registry, Inherited Disease of Electrolyte Transport Renal REGARDS, Fabry Registry, Inherited Disease of Electrolyte Transport, Chronic Kidney Disease
WARRAM JASON Image guided surgery and cancer imaging
WASKO MOLLY
WEAVER CASEY Control of Adaptive Immunity by CD4 T cells
WEBB TENNILLE
WICK TIMOTHY Orthopaedic and Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Cartilage, Bone, Blood Vessel, Bioreactor Technology, Osteoarthritis
WOOD KYLE
YODER BRADLEY Cilia Signaling and Dysfunction in Development and Disease Cilia, cystic kidney diseases, obesity, signal transduction, cell fate determination and embryonic patterning, birth defects, mouse and C. elegans models.
ZAKY AHMED
ZARJOU ABOLFAZL