|
Faculty Name |
Research Interest |
Department |
|---|---|---|
| Julio Ayala, PhD |
Gut-brain interactions that play a role in regulating body wight and overall energy homeostasis | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Ray Blind, PhD |
Genome Regulation by 2nd Messengers | Medicine; Biochemistry; Pharmacology |
| Audrey K. Bowden, PhD |
Biophotonics tools for applications to medicine and biology; development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing point-of-care technologies for rural and global health applications | Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering |
| Danielle Dean, PhD |
Mechanisms regulating plasticity of alpha cells in the pancreatic islet |
Medicine; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Craig Duvall, PhD |
Design and application of smart polymer-based technologies | Biomedical Engineering |
| Maureen Gannon, PhD |
Molecular genetics of pancreas development, organogenesis, morphogenesis, islet function, diabetes, transcription factors, pancreatic cancer | Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Todd Giorgio, PhD |
Protease-responsive biosensors for siRNA and drug delivery in vitro and in vivo, advanced materials for immunomodulation devices for sepsis treatment | Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Cancer Biology |
| Scott Guelcher, PhD, MS |
Design, synthesis, and characterization of polymeric biomaterials for bone tissue engineering | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering |
| Fiona Harrison, PhD |
The connections between optimum nutrition and neuroscience | Medicine, endocrinology |
| Frederick Haselton, PhD |
To develop technologies for diagnostic and research applications at the nano and molecular level using both in vitro and in vivo systems | Biomedical Engineering; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Chemistry |
| Alyssa Hasty, PhD |
Immune-mediated mechanisms of metabolic diseases | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| William Holmes, PhD |
Mathematical Modeling Computational Modeling Spatial Organization Biochemical Regulation | Physics |
| David A. Jacobson, PhD |
Secretagogue induced mechanisms regulating pancreatic islet electrical activity and hormone secretion | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Carl Johnson, PhD |
Circadian Rhythms, Genetics, Human Genetics, Structural Biology, Biophysics, BRET (Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer), Cell Biology, Evolution | Biological Sciences; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Erkan Karakas, PhD |
Structural Biology of Calcium Signaling and Transport through Biological Membranes | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Irina N. Kaverina, PhD |
How Microtubule-Actin Cytoskeleton Interplay Drives Cell Motility | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Michael King, PhD |
To employ tools and concepts from engineering to understand biomedically important processes that occur in the bloodstream, including cancer metastasis, inflammation, and thrombosis | Biomedical Engineering; Radiology and Radiological Sciences |
| Bennett Landman, PhD |
Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging | Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Radiology and Radiological Sciences; Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical Informatics |
| Matthew Lang, PhD |
Biological motors; cell signaling and immunology | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Ethan Lippmann, PhD |
Understanding neurovascular diseases and designing rational therapeutic strategies to combat their progression | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering |
| Haoxiang Luo, PhD |
Computational fluid dynamics, biofluids, fluid-structure interaction, microfluidics; biomimetic aerial/underwater vehicles, biomedical flows | Mechanical Engineering; Otolaryngology |
| Owen McGuinness, PhD |
Regulation Of Metabolic Response to Inflammation: Interaction With Nutrition | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Gregor Neuert, PhD |
Quantitative and predictive understanding of dynamic signal transduction and gene regulation of the coding and the non-coding genome in model organisms and human disease | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Biomedical Engineering |
| Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD |
Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism | Medicine, Diabetes/Endocrinology; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Jeffry Nyman, PhD |
Lowering the number of bone fractures associated with osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer, genetic diseases, and aging | Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation; Biomedical Engineering |
| Richard O'Brien, PhD |
Diabetes and the Glucose-6-Phosphatase Gene Family | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| John S. Penn, PhD |
Molecular basis of retinal vascular disease | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Cell and Developmental Biology; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Al Powers, MD |
Pancreatic Islet Biology, Vascularization, Development, Regeneration, and Imaging; Diabetes | Biomedical Science, Medicine, and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Ambra Pozzi, PhD |
Role of arachidonic acid derived lipids in angiogenesis and tumorigenesis | Medicine; Cancer Biology; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Vito Quaranta, MD |
Cancer Systems Biology; Computation; Bioinformatics; Mathematical Modeling; High-dimensional Data | Biochemistry; Pharmacology |
| Marjan Rafat, PhD |
Combining engineering and cancer biology concepts to examine the mechanisms driving tumor recurrence and metastasis | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Radiation Oncology |
| Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD |
Mechanisms by which extracellular cues influence lymphocyte death and differentiation in efforts to control inflammatory diseases and leukemia | Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology; Cancer Biology |
| Cynthia Reinhart-King, PhD |
To understand the mechanisms that drive tissue formation and tissue disruption during diseases such as atherosclerosis and cancer | Biomedical Engineering |
| Masa Shiota, DVM, PhD |
Hepatic Glucose Flux Regulation in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| John Stafford, MD, PhD |
Cardiovascular risk associated with diabetes and obesity. Lipid Metabolism and HDL, Sex-differences in metabolism | Medicine; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Roland Stein, PhD |
Control of insulin gene transcription and islet development | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Julie Sterling, PhD |
Using multi-disciplinary approaches including molecular biology, pre-clinical models, engineering, and imaging to investigate how the bone micro-environment regulates tumor establishment in bone and bone destruction with a specific focus on identifying new therapeutic targets | Biomedical Engineering; Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology |
| James W. Thomas, MD |
Mechanisms that regulate immune tolerance and why they fail in autoimmune disorders | Medicine; Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Imam Uddin, PhD |
Development of molecular imaging technologies including optical imaging, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and nanoscale engineering to identify molecular targets for early disease detection and treatments in ophthalmology, vascular medicine and oncology | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Biomedical Engineering |
| David Wasserman, PhD |
The role of physical exercise, insulin-stimulation and diet in metabolism | Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| John P. Wikswo, MS, PhD |
Biological physics, biomedical engineering, cardiac and cellular electrophysiology, cellular instrumentation and control, complex matter, electromagnetism, non-linear dynamics | Biomedical Engineering; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| John Wilson, PhD |
To cure, detect, treat or prevent myriad disease through the design of novel molecularly engineered materials that interrogate the immune system in defined and specific manners | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering |
| Christopher V. Wright, DPhil |
Provide insight into the molecular mechanisms responsible for the coordinated development of complex organ systems. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Jamey D. Young, PhD |
Metabolic engineering; systems biology; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; tumor metabolism; autotrophic metabolism; cell culture engineering | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Roy Zent, PhD |
Role of integrins and extracellular matrix in epithelial biology | Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension, Cell and Developmental Biology |