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Last Name First Name Research/Clinical Interest Title Keywords
KLUG CHRISTOPHER Hematopoietic stem cell biology, acute leukemia, and pancreatic cancer
WHITE CHARLES
DATTA PRAN
SMITH DANIEL
BENVENISTE ETTY Immune/nervous system interactions
FANUCCHI MICHELLE
ANANTHARAMAIAH GATTADAHALLI Apolipoproteins, Amphipathic Helices and Atherosclerosis
HABEGGER KIRK FGF21 as mediator of the metabolic actions of glucagon & Duodenal nutrient exclusion enhances glucose metabolism via CNS regulation
HABLITZ JOHN Cellular Mechanisms of Neurotransmission
POPOV KIRILL Regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex
LI LI Mood Disorders, Opioids Dependence
PREVELIGE PETER Structural Biology of Viral Assembly and Infection
SMITH PETER The role of the membrane cytoskeleton in regulating the cell surface expression of epithelial transport proteins.
BHATIA RAVI
MYERS RICHARD
SHALEV ANATH
POGWIZD STEVEN
SHRESTHA SADEEP
WILSON SCOTT Mouse Models of Neurodegeneration
DESHANE JESSY
THEIBERT WILLIS Role of phosphoinositides in developmental neurobiology
BALLINGER SCOTT Environmental cardiology, free radical biology, mitochondrial function, mitochondrial - nuclear interactions mitochondria, oxidative stress, evolutionary medicine, cardiovascular disease, cancer, metabolism
BHATNAGAR SUSHANT Identification and characterization of novel factors in insulin secretion in obesity and type 2 diabetes Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Beta Cell Biology, Insulin Secretion, SNARE Biology, Secreted Proteins, Insulin Granule Trafficking, Tomosyn Proteins, Post-translational Modifications
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
CURTIS LISA Aging and gender in acute kidney injury acute kidney injury, aging, stem cells, heme oxygenase-1, gender, female
MATALON SADIS Free Radical Protection from and Exacerbation of Lung Injury Acute Lung Injury, pulmonary edema, pulmonary surfactant, alveolar epithelium, free radicals, nitric oxide, sodium channels
SUN LIOU Aging, longevity and Alzheimer's Disease Aging, longevity and Alzheimer's Disease
KADISHA INGA The role of white matter changes in aging and Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's Disease, Aging, Cognition
WYSS JAMES Neuroplasticity in aging and neuro cardiovascular control Alzheimers, hypertension, neuronal plasticity, behavior, blood pressure, botanicals, STEM education
DOBRUNZ LYNN Hippocampal Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity, Circuits that Regulate Anxiety, Noninvasive Neuromodulation anxiety, Neuropeptide Y, hippocampus
ZHAO XINYANG The roles of protein arginine methyltransferases in abnormal hematopoiesis Arginine methylation, epigenetics, leukemia, stem cell, transcription
PARPURA VLADIMIR The role of glial cells in physiology of nervous system. astrocyte, autism spectrum disorder, carbon nanotubes, glial biology, gliomas, enteric glia, exocytosis, glutamate, glial-neuronal signaling, intellectual disability, nanotechnology, neural prosthesis, optogenetics, physiology, pathology
VISSCHER KRISTINA Cognitive Neuroscience attention, memory, older adults, aging, training, ongoing activity, EEG, fMRI, human neuroscience
XU JIA Investigating the mechanisms by which oncogenic signaling pathways impact tumor cell division, growth and metastasis AURKB, PI3K/AKT/PTEN pathway, Mitosis, Cancer Biology, Cancer signaling pathway, PROTAC, AAV gene therapy
RAMAN CHANDER Lymphocyte activation, immunopathogenesis of systemic and neuroimmune autoimmune disease, inflammatory diseases of the skin. Autoimmunity, Multiple Sclerosis, Skin inflammatory diseases
ZHANG JIANHUA Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosomal pathway in health and diseases Autophagy, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, lysosomes, mitochondria, redox signaling
SHACKA JOHN Targeting the Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway for Therapeutic Benefit in Parkinson's Disease Autophagy; Lysosome; Parkinson's; Synuclein; Alpha-Galactosidase
BURROWS PETER B Lymphocyte Development and Function B lymphocyte, development, molecular biology
POZZO-MILLER LUCAS Neurotrophins in Synapse Development and Plasticity, Intellectual Disabilities, and Syndromic Autisms BDNF, Ca2+, Synapse, Rett Syndrome, Hippocampus, Dendritic Spines, MeCP2, Autism, Intellectual Disability
HJELMELAND ANITA Targeting Brain Tumor Initiating Cells and the Tumor Microenvironment Brain Tumor, Tumor Microenvironment, Tumor Initiating Cell, Cancer Stem Cell
HSU HUI-CHEN The BXD2 autoimmune mouse model of lupus and erosive arthritis BXD2, lupus, arthritis, IL-17, type I IFN, apoptotic cells
KNIGHT JOHN Oxalate Handling and Synthesis and its Relationship to Health and Disease Calcium oxalate kidney stone disease, Oxalobacter formigenes, primary hyperoxaluria
PENG JI-BIN Calcium transport proteins and their roles in health and disease Calcium transport, absorption, reabsorption, hyercalciuria, hypertension, TRPV6, TRPV5, WNK4
NORIAN LYSE Understanding the effects of diet and obesity on anti-tumor immunity cancer immunology, immunotherapy, obesity, diet, kidney cancer, breast cancer
LU RUI Epigenetic Mechanisms in Cancer Initiation, Maintenance, and Drug Resistance Cancer, Leukemia, Epigenetics, Genomics, Chromatin, Gene regulation, Novel therapeutics
SETHU PALANIAPPAN cardiac and vascular models, mechanical stresses, cardiac regeneration, normal and disturbed flow
HARRINGTON LAURIE Protective and Pathogenic CD4 T Cell Responses CD4 T cells, autoimmunity, immunological memory, cytokines
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
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.
GAMBLE KAREN NIH funded projects (active): Circadian dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease; The nigral molecular clock and vulnerability to neurodegeneration circadian rhythms, biological clocks, shift work, entrainment, suprachiasmatic nucleus
ROWE STEVEN Cystic Fibrosis Clinical and Translational Research cystic fibrosis, CFTR, nonsense mutations
SZTUL ELIZABETH Membrane Traffic; Protein Degradation Cystic fibrosis, membrane traffic, degradation, quality control
COLLAWN JAMES Role of ion channels in cystic fibrosis Cystic Fibrosis; Endocytosis; Protein Trafficking, chymase, heart failure
BRITT WILLIAM Human Herpesviruses, Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis cytomegalovirus, perinatal infections, virus assembly
SERRA ROSA Mechanism of TGF-ß Action in Developmental and Disease Processes developmental biology, bone, cartilage, teeth, intervertebral disc, osteoarthrits, skeletal disease
WENDE ADAM Glucose-mediated remodeling of cardiac DNA methylation Diabetes, Hypertension, Exercise, Mitochondria, Metabolism, Glucose, Epigenetics, Gene expression, transcription, O-GlcNAc, protein modifications, DNA methylation, Histone modification, GLUT4, PDK2, PDK4
HUNTER CHAD Transcriptional control of pancreatic beta cell development and adult islet cell function Diabetes, Transcription Factor, Coregulators, Gene Regulation, Organogenesis, Pancreas, Chromatin, Developmental Biology, Endocrinology
CHESNOKOV IGOR DNA Replication and Cell Cycle in Eukaryotes DNA replication, cytokinesis, Origin Recognition Complex
DAY JEREMY Neurobiology of motivated and learned behaviors Epigenetics, addiction, memory, molecular mechanisms, optogenetics
LUBIN FARAH Molecular genetic mechanisms in learning and memory Epigenetics, signal transduction, gene transcription, CRISPR-dCas9, neurology, neuroscience, learning and memory, aging, epilepsy, Alzheimer's Disease
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
BAMMAN MARCAS Exercise as a discovery tool and treatment in regenerative medicine and medical rehabilitation. exercise medicine, medical rehabilitation, regenerative medicine, clinical trial, muscle biology
BOLISETTY SUBHASHINI Mechanisms of injury and repair during Acute Kidney Injury Ferritin, iron, heme oxygenase, macrophages, inflammation, acute kidney injury, sepsis
FATHALLAH-SHAYKH HASSAN Computational Personalized Medicine and Mathematics Glioma, Cancer, Clinical Trials, Multiple Sclerosis, Image Segmentation, Motility, Modeling, Dynamical Systems, Chaos, Networks, Circadian Clocks, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations
MARKERT JAMES Engineering Herpes Simplex Viruses for the Therapy of Cancer glioma, gene therapy, brain tumors, herpes simplex, cancer therapy, immunotherapy, anti-angiogenic therapy
WADICHE JACQUES Cellular and molecular basis of synaptic transmission and neuronal organization of microcircuits glutamate transport, synaptic transmission, cerebellum
FRANK STUART Growth Hormone Action and GH Receptor Structure and Function growth hormone, signaling, prolactin, IGF-1, growth factors
AGARWAL ANUPAM Regulation of heme oxygenase gene expression in kidney and vascular injury heme oxygenase, acute kidney injury, transplant nephrology, lymphangiogenesis
WHITLEY RICHARD Herpes simplex virus; varicella zoster virus; drug discovery; cytomegalovirus
GILBERT SHAWN HIF, angiogenesis, bone, obesity, fracture
THOMPSON SUNNIE Viral host pathogen interactions Host pathogen interactions, Mechanisms of viral translation, IRES, Polyomaviruses, Coronaviruses, Enteroviruses, Flaviviruses, Ribosome, Translational mechanisms in Cancer
CHOW LOUISE Human papillomavirus DNA replication and pathogenesis HPV infections and cancers
GRAY MICHELLE Pathogenesis of Huntington's Disease Huntington's disease, neurodegeneration, neuroscience, astrocytes
LEAVENWORTH JIANMEI Cancer-Immune cell Crosstalk: Discovery of new targets for cancer immunotherapy Immunology, Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, Treg, NK cells, glioma
KIM JEONGA Cross-talk between inflammation and insulin signaling Insulin Resistance, Endothelial Dysfunction, NO, ROS, Polyphenol
GARVEY W. Molecular and physiological pathogenesis of human insulin resistance Insulin resistance, obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes
RAMANADHAM SASANKA Role of Lipid Mediators in Signal Transduction Islets, signal transduction, iPLA2, bone, protease inhibitors
AMBALAVANAN NAMASIVAYAM Neonatal lung development and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Lung, Hypoxia, Hyperoxia, Retinoids, Prediction models
HILDRETH BLAKE Role of macrophages and osteoclasts in bone metastasis and primary bone tumors macrophage, osteoclast, breast cancer, primary bone tumor, bone, metastasis
GRAY MICHAEL Bacterial responses to oxidative stress microbiota, redox, stress, probiotics, reactive chlorine, inflammation
HASSAN QUAMARUL Gene Regulation by Non-coding RNA, Chromatin Remodeling and Modifications MicroRNA, Epigenetics, Bone, Tooth, Osteoblast Gene Expression, Odontoblast Gene Regulation
MITRA KASTURI Exploring the significance of mitochondrial structural change in health and disease Mitochondria, Cell proliferation, Energetics, Cancer, Stem cells
SINGH KESHAV Mitochondrial Metabolism, Mitochondria-to-Nucleus Retrograde Cross Talk, Oxidative Stress, Genomic Instability and Its Role in Tumor Progression and Metastasis mitochondria, genomic instability, cancer, breast cancer, prostate, arsenic, oxidative stress, metabolism, tumor progression, tumor metastasis
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
WANG JIANBO The Planar Cell Polarity Pathway in mammalian embryogenesis mouse genetics, morphogenesis, cell polarity
KRISHNAMURTHY PRASANNA Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases & stem cell-mediated regeneration and repair. Myocardial infarction, Heart failure, Stem cells, Cardiovascular regeneration and therapeutics, metabolic diseases, wound healing
YANG EDDY Targeting DNA repair pathways to augment the therapeutic ratio for cancer patients nanostring, profiling, DNA damage, DNA repair, EGFR, cancer, PARP, apoptosis, brain, protection, GSK3
BEIERLE CHEN ELIZABETH (1) Signal transduction pathways in pediatric solid tumors (2) oHSV treatment of pediatric solid tumors neuroblastoma, hepatoblastoma, FAK, p53, MYCN, MDM2, oHSV, retinoids, malignant rhabdoid kidney tumor
HERSKOWITZ JEREMY Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, signaling, plasticity, behavior, neuroscience, cell biology
ROBERSON ERIK Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, tau, progranulin, excitability, signaling, plasticity, behavior
KANO SHINICHI Immunology of brain homeostasis and disease Neuroimmunology, Glia, Cytokine, Epigenetics, Extracellular vesicles, Schizophrenia
HYNDMAN KELLY Novel mechanisms of HDAC1 regulation of collecting duct function. nitric oxide, endothelin, collecting duct, histone deacetylase, Aquaporin-2
JAVED AMJAD Genetic and Molecular Signaling for Cellular Differentiation and Skeletogenesis Osteoblast, Bone Development, Gene Regulation, Osteoporosis
ZAYZAFOON MAJD The Role of Calcium Signaling in the pathogenesis of disease Osteoblasts, Bone, Prostate Cancer, Osteosarcoma, Calmodulin Kinase, NFAT, AP-1, Bone metastasis, HDAC, histone acetylation, DNA methyltransferase
KARTHIKEYAN MYTHREYE Molecular and cellular mechanisms of signaling during metastasis ovarian cancer, TGFbeta, BMP, inhibin/activin, betaglycan, cellular signaling, extracellular matrix , cell survival mechanisms
VOLPICELLI-DALEY LAURA Cognitive impairments in Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementias Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementias, synuclein, tau, glucocerebrosidase, cell biology of the neuron, neurodegeneration
GAGGAR AMIT Proteases in Cystic Fibrotic Lung Disease, Proteases in Lung Transplantation proteases, extracellular matrix, neutrophils, inflammation, innate immunity
LAHTI ADRIENNE Neuroimaging psychiatry, schizophrenia, research, lahti
GAMLIN PAUL Studies of the Neural Bases of Vision & Eye Movements pupil, vergence, gene therapy, fMRI
GORBATYUK MARINA Neuroprotection for animal models of retinal degenration Retinal Degeneration, Unfolded Protein Response, Neuroprotection
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