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Darrell Abernethy, Professor, Medicine
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Role of posttranscriptional modification of drug effectors that effect responses to cardiovascular drugs; drug exposure and functional status in older individuals.

Ruben Adler, Professor, Ophthalmology
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Interaction of genetic and microenvironmental factors controlling the survival and differentiation of retinal cells; molecular pharmacology, polyamine metabolism, antineoplastic drug development

William Agnew, Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Molecular basis of electrical excitability: ion channels responsible for action potentials, intracellular signaling and synaptic plasticity; molecular mechanisms regulating the structure and function of ion channels in the human nervous system

Rhoda Alani, Associate Professor, Oncology Center
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Genetic mechanisms of skin cancer development; molecular approaches to targeting cutaneous malignancies

Robert Allen, Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Obstetrics

Anne Altemus, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Instructional design, Multimedia

Richard Ambinder, Professor, Oncology Center
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Virology and human cancer; antiviral therapy; antitumor therapy; lymphoma pathogenesis, prevention and treatment; immunological approaches to virus-associated malignancies; Herpesviruses in the pathogenesis of human malignancies; therapeutic treatment str

L. Mario Amzel, Professor, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Immunology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Structure and mechanism of biological macromolecules; X-ray diffraction studies and molecular modeling; ATPases; Oxidation/reduction and phosphoryltransfer enzymes

Katrin Andreasson, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Mechanisms of cellular injury in neurodegenerative diseases

Andreas Andreou, Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Electricial & Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Micro-/Nano-Fabrication and Instrumentation, VLSI, neural computation

Deborah Andrew, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biomedical Engineering
Developmental biology; organ formation in Drosophila: specification and morphogenesis of the salivary gland

Robert Arceci, Professor, Oncology-Pediatric Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Chromatin structure and epigenetic change during development to cancer cell survival

Ergin Atalar, Professor, Radiology and Radiological Science Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research
Biomedical Engineering
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

J. Thomas August, Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Immunogenetic therapy of infectious diseases and cancer; genetic vaccine chimeras with LAMP trafficking of antigens to the MHC II compartment; vaccine analysis with nonhuman primates; immunocomputational models and ex vivo analysis with human patient cohorts of antigen epitropes; HIV-1 and flavivirus (dengue, West Nile, and Japanese encephalitis viruses) genetic vaccines; mechanisms of antigen trafficking and immune responses.

Dimitrios Avramopoulos, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genetic basis of complex disorders, particularly psychiatric disorders

Joel Bader, Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Computational biology and bioinformatics; bioinformatics; computational biology; genetics; genomics; proteomics

Oscar Baeza, Instructor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Cardiac Surgical Illustration

William Baldwin, Associate Professor, Pathology
Immunology; Pathobiology
Mechanisms of antibody- and complement-mediated injury to organ transplants; innate and adaptive immune responses to organ

Marion Ball, Professor, School of Nursing
Health Sciences Informatics
Health informatics directions, Education

Gregory Ball, Professor, A&S Psychology
Neuroscience
Behavioral neuroendocrinology and neuroethology

Jay Baraban, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal plasticity

Norman Barker, Associate Professor, Pathology
Medical & Biological Illustration
Medical Photography

Doug Barrick, Assistant Professor, A&S, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Stability and folding of modular proteins, structure and sequence analysis of protein evolution, protein-protein interactions in signaling pathways

Patrick Barta, Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Center for Imaging Science
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Imaging Sciences; creating platform-independent software for image display and measurement to be used in structural and functional brain imaging analysis

Howard Bartner, Associate Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Ophthalmological illustration

Amy Bastian, Associate Professor, Neurology
Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience
Neuroscience and motor control; mechanisms of human movement disorders

Stephen Baylin, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular determinants of human tumor progression; molecular and therapeutic aspects of genetic disease

Philip Beachy, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Pattern formation in Drosophila and vertebrate embryos

Michael Beer, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Computational molecular biology and genomics

Dwight Bergles, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Synaptic physiology: glutamate transporters and glial involvement in neuronal signaling

Zaver Bhujwala, Professor, Radiology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular pharmacology, polyamine metabolism, antineoplastic drug development

William Bishai, Associate Professor, BSPH, Disease Control
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
Bacterial Regulatory Genes, Pathogenesis; Molecular Epidemiology; tuberculosis mycobacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis

Seth Blackshaw, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Developmental neurobiology; Molecular basis of cell specification in vertebrate retina and hypothalmus

Mary Blue, Associate Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Animal models of developmental brain disorders

Jef Boeke, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Transposition mechanisms; reverse transcription in genome evolution; yeast genetics; molecular genetics; transcriptional silencing

David Borshelt, Associate Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Understanding the molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders; molecular dissection of pathogenic pathways in Alzheimer’s disease; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Huntington’s disease

Paul Bottomley, Professor, Radiology and Radiological Science Magnetic Resonance Research
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging sciences

G. Steven Bova, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Health Sciences Informatics
Reproducible research and basic science information management

Greg Bowman, Assistant Professor, A&S, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Structural biology of molecular proteins, structure and sequence analysis of protein evolution, protein-protein interactions in signaling pathways

Joseph Brady, Professor, Psych Behav Sci
Neuroscience
Behavioral biology (physiology and pharmacology

Ludwig Brand, Professor, A&S, Biology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Protein-ligand interactions, fluorescence spectroscopy of macromolecular complexes

Nancy Braverman, Assistant Professor, Institute of Genetic Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular biology and pathophysiology of peroxisome assembly diseases

Gert Brieger, Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
"History of 19th and 20th century; medicine; history of surgery; history of medical education"

Fred Bunz, Assistant Professor, Oncology-Radialogical Sciences
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
DNA damage signaling in cancer cells and stem cells

C. Lynne Burek, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Clinical immunology and autoimmunity; role of iodine in thyroiditis

Arthur Burnett, Associate Professor, Urology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Neurophysiology of the pelvis and lower genitourinary tract

Peter Campochiaro, Professor, Ophthalmology
Neuroscience
Molecular aspects of retinal repair and regeneration

Robert Casero, Associate Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular pharmacology, polyamine metabolism, antineoplastic drug development

Michael Caterina, Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of thermosensation and nociception; TRPV ion channels

Patrizio Caturegli, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Pathogenesis of organ-specific autoimmune diseases with special focus on autoimmune thyroiditis and autoimmune hypophysitis

Shukti Chakravarti, Associate Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Extracellular matrix functions in normal and diseased connective tissue

Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor, Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular basis of complex disease; genomics; population genetics

Subroto Chatterjee, Professor, Pediatrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Signal transduction in atherosclerosis

Lieping Chen, Professor, Dermatology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Costimulatory molecules, lymphocyte activation and deactivation, immunotherapy, transplant rejection

Elizabeth Chen, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Signaling pathways that control cell-cell fusion; muscle development

Linzhao Cheng, Associate Professor, Gynecology and Obstetrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Human stem cell biology, engineering and transplantation; stem cell-based genetic models for human diseases

Barton Childs, Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genetic origins of individuality; consequences for medicine and medical education

Greg Chirikjian, Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Computational mechanics of large proteins, conformational statistics of biological macromolecules, applied mathematics

Curtis Civin, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Stem cell biology, hematopoietic transplantation and leukemia research

Douglas Clark, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Molecular and cellular biology of infectious diseases

Neil Clarke, Associate Professor, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Computational genomics; protein sequence analysis; modeling of gene regulation

Richard Clatterbuck, Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
Neuroscience
Cerebral Blood Vessels in Nervous System Disease

Janice Clements, Professor, Comparative Medicine
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Pathobiology
Molecular biology of the HIV and SIV, molecular pathogenesis of lentiviruses; molecular basis for virus pathogenesis and CNS

Ronald Cohn, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular mechanisms of muscle regeneration; inherited myopathies

Philip Cole, Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Chemical and biochemical approaches to the study of signal transduction, gene expression, and circadian rhythm

Henry Colecraft, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Voltage-gated calcium channels; viral gene delivery; gene therapy

Alan Coltri, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Informatics
Health Sciences Informatics
Health information technology software engineering

Nathaniel Comfort, Associate Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of biomedical sciences, especially genetics and genomics; history of recent science; oral techniques in history; 20th century America

Richard Cone, Professor, A&S, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Mucosal protection by antibodies

Charles Connor, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience
Object synthesis in higher level visual cortex; 2D and 3D shape representation in visual cortex

Jeffry Corden, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Genetic analysis of the eukaryotic transcription apparatus

Brendan Cormack, Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Fungal pathogenesis: the host-pathogen interaction and molecular mechanisms for the yeast pathogen Candida glabrata

Robert Cotter, Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Structure of macromolecules; laser and atom beam mass spectrometry; development of new analytical techniques and instrumentation for mass spectrometry; applications of mass spectrometry to the structural analysis of peptides, glycopeptides, and glycolipid

Pierre Coulombe, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Development, differentiation and homeostasis in complex epithelia; cellular and molecular biology of wound healing in complex epithelia; Inherited skin blistering diseases

Susan Courtney, Assistant Professor, A&S, Psychology
Neuroscience
Functional Organization of the neural System for Human Working Memory; Neural systems of working memory

Nancy Craig, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Mechanism of DNA recombination; control of gene expression

Susan Craig, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry
"Cytoskeletal proteins and cell adhesion; molecular and cellular biology of actin-associated cell junctions"

Ranice Crosby, Associate Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Hopkins historical Illustratiors

David Cutler, Assistant Professor, Institute of Genetic Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Computational biology, genomics, evolution, genetics of complex disease

Garry Cutting, Professor, Pediatrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular genetics of cystic fibrosis and ion channels; gene mapping by pulse field gel electrophoresis inherited diseases of ion transport; clinical and molecular genetics of sinopulmonary diseases

Chi Dang, Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Pathobiology
Molecular and cellular biology of oncogenes; role of oncogenes in cell proliferation, neoplasia, and programmed cell death; oncogenic transcription factor structure and function

Nancy Davidson, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Biology and treatment of human breast cancer

Valina Dawson, Professor, Neurology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal death and survival; cell death and cell survival signaling pathways in models of stroke, ALS and Parkinson's disease

Ted Dawson, Professor, Neurology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell death and neurodegenerative diseases

Samuel Denmeade, Associate Professor, Drug Development
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Targeted therapies for prostate and breast cancer; prodrugs; protoxins; proteases; peptide libraries

Stephen Desiderio, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology
Development and activation of the immune system; molecular mechanisms of differentiation and activation in the immune system; signal transduction in lymphocyte activation

Peter Devreotes, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Genetic analysis of chemotaxis in eukaryotic cells

Joseph Dieter, Lecturer, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Graphic Design; logo marks

Harry Dietz, Professor, Pediatrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular biology of heart development and of heritable disorders affecting the heart; influence of premature termination codons on RNA splicing and processing; molecular etiology of structural heart disease

Albena Dinkova-Kostova, Research Associate, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Protection against cancer: mechanisms and strategies; structure-activity relation of protective agents; inflammation and cancer; skin cancer prevention.

Sue Karen Donaldson, Professor, School of Nursing
Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Molecular and cellular mechanisms in human and mammalian skeletal muscle including calcium-activated force generation and excitation-contraction coupling under normal conditions as well as adaptation to use-disuse

Xinzhong Dong, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Molecular and Genetic Studies of Pain-sensing Neurons

Mark Donowitz, Professor, Medicine
Biomedical Engineering; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Molecular biology and epithelial transport and signal transduction

Daniel Drachman, Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Nerve Muscle Interactions in Health and disease

David Draper, Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
RNA stability and electrostatics, RNA-protein recognition

Stephen Dumler, Associate Professor, Pathology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
In vitro and in vivo molecular and cellular pathogenesis of granulocytic anaplasmosis; pathobiology; molecular, cellular and immunopathogenesis of tick-borne infectious agents

Charles Eberhart, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Sudies on the molecular biology and pathology of pediatric brain tumors

Michael Edidin, Professor, A&S, Biology
Immunology
MHC I molecules as probes of cell surface organization: the importance of conformation and lateral organization of membrane proteins for their function

Howard Egeth, Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience
Perception and Cognition, Attention and Attentional Selectivity, Eyewitness Testimony

Jennifer Elisseef, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biomaterial; hydrogels; tissue engineering; cartilage regeneration

John Eng, Associate Professor, Radiology and Radiological Science Diagnostic Radiology
Health Sciences Informatics
Performance of diagnostic technologies

Paul Englund, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Biochemistry and molecular biology of protozoan parasites

James Eshleman, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
Mutator phenotypes in colon cancer; novel therapeutics; microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer

Susan Eshleman, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
HIV-1 drug resistance; Genetic diversity of HIV; HIV mother-to-child transmission

Peter Espenshade, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology
Biomedical Engineering; Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Regulation of Lipid Homeostasis in Eukaryotes

Ralph Etienne Cummings, Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Micro-/Nano-Fabrication and Instrumentation

Jennifer Fairman, Faculty Instructor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Scientific Illustration, Digital Media: Illustration & Animation, Small business practices

Neal Fedarko, Associate Professor, Geriatrics (Bayview)
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Extracellular matrix and cellular metabolism

Andrew Feinberg, Professor, Medicine
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genomic imprinting in normal development and disease; genetics of childhood cancer; novel genomic technology; epigenetics of cancer and common disease; methylation and chromatin mechanisms

Virginia Ferrante, Instructor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Molecular Illustration; contracts and copyrights

Shannon Fisher, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Study of skeletal development, using the zebrafish as a model system; developmental genetics; modifiers of BMP signaling

Mary Fissell, Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
"European health care and popular medicine, 17th and 18th centuries; early modern gender and the body"

Robert Fitzgerald, Professor, BSPH, Env Health Sci
Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Mechanisms of carotid body chemotransduction; reflex mechanisms involved in cardiopulmonary control

Karen Fleming, Assistant Professor, A&S, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Membrane protein folding, thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions in membranes, membrane protein modeling

Charles Flexner, Professor, Medicine
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Antiretroviral therapy; basic and clinical pharmacology of HIV protease inhibitors, nucleosides, and viral entry inhibitors.

Erick Fortune, Assistant Professor, A&S Psychology
Neuroscience
Neural basis of behavior, sensory processing, neuroethology

Joan Freedman, Instructor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
"Design of Instructional Programs, Web Education"

Caren Freel-Meyers, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Organic and medicinal chemistry; chemical biology; drug delivery mechanisms in bacteria; development of antibiotic prodrug strategies; study of bacterial isoprenoid biosynthesis; combinatorial biosynthesis; development of potential therapeutic agents.

Alan Friedman, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Transcriptional regulation of myeloid differentiation; mechanisms of myeloid leukemia oncogenes; gene therapy using bone marrow stem cells; transcriptional control of hematopoietic differentiation

Paul Fuchs, Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience
Molecular and cellular engineering physiology; excitability and synaptic function in cochlear hair cells

Ephraim Fuchs, Associate Professor, Oncology
Immunology
Augmenting immune responses against cancer in the setting of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (alloBMT); graft vs. host disease (GVHD)

Edward Gabrielson, Associate Professor, Pathology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
Functional genomics and molecular genetics of breast and lung cancer; tumor biology, with a specific focus on genetic and epigenetic changes in breast and lung cancer

Nicholas Gaiano, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Molecular regulation of stem cell maintenance, proliferation, and differentiation in the mammalian brain

Michela Gallagher, Professor, A&S Psychology
Neuroscience
Neural mechanisms of memory and attention

Juan Garcia, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Opthamological illustration; facial prosthetics; digital illustration

Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, Professor, A&S, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Experimental and computational studies of protein electrostatics, structure-based energy calculations, regulatory interactions in viruses

John Gearhart, Professor, Gynecology and Obstetrics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Mammalian developmental genetics; human stem cells developmental genetics cell-based therapies stem cell biology; gene control of mammalian embryogenesis utilizing genetic mutants, experimental embryologic procedures; studies of a mouse model for Down syndrome

Patricia Gearhart, Associate Professor, Medicine
Immunology
Somatic mutation in immunoglobulin variable genes; DNA repair; B-cell differentiationSomatic mutation in immunoglobulin variable genes; DNA repair; B-cell differentiation

Donald Geman, Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Applied Math & Statistics
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging sciences; computer vision, pattern recognitionBiomedical imaging sciences; computer vision, pattern recognition

Steve Georas, Associate Professor, Pulmonary Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular regulation of gene expression in the immune system

Gregory Germino, Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Identification and characterization of genes involved in hereditary renal diseases; molecular basis of renal cyst disease; renal tubular morphogenesis

Robert Getzenberg, Professor, Urology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Hypothesis driven proteomics to develop and characterize novel cancer biomarkers

D. Wade Gibson, Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Herpes virus proteins: studies of their expression, structure, and function using genetic, biochemical, biophysical, and immunological approaches

David Ginty, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Growth factor signal transduction in developing neurons

Harry Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Health Sciences Informatics
Designing and incorporating educational technology into the curricula

Stephen Gould, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Analysis of peroxisome assembly in yeast and humans; molecular mechanisms of organelle biogenesis; Identification of genetic basis of peroxisome assembly disorders

Jeffrey Gray, Assistant Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Biomolecular modeling, protein-protein docking, protein-surface interactions, nanoassembly and design

Eric Green, Assistant Professor, NHGRI, NIH
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Novel comparative genomic sequencing

Rachel Green, Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Role of 23S rRNA in the mechanism of translation; functional analysis of the ribosome using rapid kinetic and spectroscopic approaches

Marc Greenberg, Assistant Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Studies on DNA damage and repair, and their applications

Peter Greene, Associate Professor, Surgery Cardiac Surgery
Health Sciences Informatics
Standards for professional education and training

Carol Greider, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Telomerase action and the role of telomeres in chromosome maintenance; telomerase biochemistry and telomere length regulation; telomerase and the consequences of telomere dysfunction; chromosome stability and genomic instability in cancer

Diane Griffin, Professor, BSPH, Mol Microbiol
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology
Molecular pathogenesis and immunology of viral infections; molecular pathogenesis of measles; Sindbis viral infections

John Griffin, Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Cellular neurobiology of the peripheral nervous system

Roland Griffiths, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Neuroscience
Behavioral pharmacology of drugs of abuse

William Guggino, Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genetic disorders associated with defective fluid and electrolyte movement; gene therapy of cystic fibrosis; Structure/function studies of Cl- and water channels

Sandra Guggino, Associate Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Physiology and pathophysiology of ion channels in non excitable cells

Justin Hanes, Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Gene delivery; biomaterials; intracellular trafficking; pulmonary aerosols

Marta Hanson, Assistant Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of Chinese medicine and history of medicine in China; history of disease and epidemics; history of Chinese medical mnemonics; late imperial Chinese history 1400-1900

J. Marie Hardwick, Professor, BSPH, Mol Microbiol
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular mechanisms of programmed cell death and its role in viral pathogenesis

Neil Hardy, Associate Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Business practices; contracts & copyrights

Joshua Hare, Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Diseases of the myocardium including myocardial infarction

Gerald Hart, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry
Roles of cytoplasmic and nuclear glycosylation in transcription, oncogene function, neurodegenerative disease, and in diabetes

Samer Hattar, Assistant Professor, A&S, Biology
Neuroscience
Functional Organization of Primate Visual System

S. Diane Hayward, Professor, Oncology Center
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus; viral latency and tumorigenesis; molecular mechanisms of virus-induced cell proliferation; notch, wnt, and JAK/STAT signaling pathways

Gary Hayward, Professor, Oncology Center
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
"Molecular biology and genetics of herpes virus disease processes; viral proteins that modulate gene expession, cell cycle and pathogenesis; interaction of viral immediate-early transcriptional with nuclear subdomains; chemokines and molecular piracy by KSHV; role of herpesviruses in vascular disease"

Tamara Hendrickson, Assistant Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Molecular evolution; aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases; enzymology of protein glycosylation

Craig Hendrix, Associate Professor, Medicine
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Chemoprophylaxis of HIV infection; male genital tract pharmacology; topical microbicides

Stewart Hendry, Professor, Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Early visual processing

James Herman, Assistant Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Epigenetic change of DNA methylation in cancer

Alan Hess, Professor, Immunology & Hematopoiesis
Immunology
Immunobiology of bone marrow transplantation and graft vs. host disease

Ellen Hess, Associate Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Genetic regulation of behavior

Blake Hill, Assistant Professor, A&S, Biology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
NMR studies of protein folding; computational protein design, modeling protein dynamics using NMR spin relaxation data, and structural biology

Jan Hoh, Associate Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Macromolecular and cellular biophysics; protein and cell nanomechanics; probing cell structure and function using spatially and chemically complex interfaces; biomedical applications for scanned probe microscopes

Ahmet Hoke, Associate Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
In vitro and in vivo models of peripheral neuropathies and nerve regeneration

Peter Holland, Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience
Mechanisms of behavior

Kalina Hristova, Assistant Professor, Eng, Mat Sci Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Membrane-protein interactions, calculations of 3D membrane structures from 1D x-ray-neutron scattering profiles, prediction methods for membrane protein topology

Steven Hsiao, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience
Neurophysiology of the central nervous system

Shau-Ku Huang, Associate Professor, Clinical Immunology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular and genetic mechanisms of asthma and allergic diseases

Ann Hubbard, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Trafficking of copper-ATPases and molecular determinants of polarity in epithelial cells; vesicle traffic and polarity in mammalian cells; Cooper homeostatis and polarity of epithelial cells

Kathy Hudson, Associate Professor, Bioethics Institute
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Scientific, legal, ethical and social factors related to genetic issues

Richard Huganir, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular mechanisms in regulation of synaptic transmission and plasticity in the brain

David Huso, Associate Professor, Comparative Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular and cellular basis for modulating genetic disease

Grover Hutchins, Professor,, Pathology
Medical & Biological Illustration
Pathology

Pablo Iglesias, Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Computational biology; signal transduction; chemotaxis

William Isaacs, Professor, Urology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular biology and genetics of prostate cancer; understanding the molecular genetic events responsible for initiation and progression of prostate cancer, with particular interest in inherited susceptibility to prostate cancer

John Issacs, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Programmed (apoptotic) cell death as therapy for cancer

Ethylin Jabs, Professor, Pediatrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Human craniofacial development and disorders; human chromosome structure and function; genetics of craniofacial development; characterization of human centromeric regions; repetitive DNA; molecular cytogenetics; gene mapping

J. Brooks Jackson, Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
HIV diagnostics and HIV perinatal transmission

Elizabeth Jaffee, Associate Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Development of vaccines for treatment of cancer; analysis of antitumor immune responses against human tumors; identification of the targets of tumor-specific cytotoxic T cells; dissection of the immune responses to breast and pancreas cancers; cancer immune tolereance; cancer vaccines

Robert Jensen, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Mitochondrial dynamics; protein targeting; yeast molecular genetics

David Johns, Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Role of ion channels in diseases of excitability

Richard Johns, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Medical devices

Kenneth Johnson, Professor, Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
Study of sensory information processing in the cortex; neural mechanisms of perception; CNS neurophysiology; neural mechanisms of perception

Carolyn Jones, Instructor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Digital graphic design

Andrew Kane, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Scientific Writing, Presentations, Aquatic Biology

Robert Kargon, Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of physics; science and social change; sciences in America

Nicholas Katsanis, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genetic and cellular basis of pleiotropic disease; inherited disorders of ciliary function

Thomas Kensler, Professor, BSPH, Env Health Sci
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis; reactive oxygen and antioxidants; cancer chemoprevention

Scott Kern, Associate Professor, Cancer Biology
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Pathobiology
Genetic alterations in pancreatic carcinoma and colorectal dysplasia

Gary Ketner, Professor, Immunology
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Virology; use of viruses for gene delivery for vaccination

Clara Kielkopf, Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Biochemistry & Molecular biology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Structure and function of mRNA splicing factors

Kwang Sik Kim, Professor, Pediatrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Brain endothelial cell biology and pathogenesis of central nervous system infections

Matthew Kim, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Health Sciences Informatics
Usability, interface design

Landon King, Associate Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Regulation of aquaporin expression in the respiratory track

Sharon Kingsland, Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of biology, especially ecology, genetics and behavioral biology; U.S. science

Kenneth Kinzler, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular genetics of cancer, particularly colorectal cancer and familial adenomatous polyposis

Alfredo Kirkwood, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Mechanisms of cortical modification

Vassilis Koliatsos, Associate Professor, Pathology
Neuroscience; Pathobiology
Trophic factors; animal models of neurodegenerative disease; apoptosis

Alex Kolodkin, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of growth cone guidance

Kostas Konstantopoulos, Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Molecular and cellular engineering physiology

Lori Kotch, Assistant Professor, Institute of Genetic Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Cellular and Molecular Determinants for Alcohol-induced birth defects

Francis Kuhajda, Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Intermediary metabolism in human cancer fatty acid synthesis; metabolism; cancer

Abraham Kupfer, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Mechanisms of T cell activation and intercellular communication in the immune system

Barbara Landau, Professor, A&S, Cog Sci
Neuroscience
Spatial cognition and language learning

M. Daniel Lane, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Adipogenic stem cell commitment- differentiaion-regulated gene expression; hypothalamic control of adiposity; signals and genes that trigger adipose lineage commitment and differentiation

John LaTerra, Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience; Pathobiology
Cellular and molecular neuroscience; studies on mechanisms of malignancy and receptor tyrosine kinase-dependent signaling pathways in primary brain tumors

Eaton Lattman, Professor, A&S, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
X-ray crystallography, protein folding, experimental and computational protein electrostatics (laboratory closed)

Ann Marie Lawler, Research Associate, Physiology
Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Preimplantation mammalian embryology; generation and differentiation of embryonic and trophoblast stem cells; genetic engineering and transgenesis in mice

Steven Leach, Professor, Surgery
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Regulation of exocrine pancreatic differentiation

Daniel Leahy, Professor, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Immunology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Three-dimensional structure of proteins and protein complexes involved in cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction and signaling; X-ray diffraction studies of cell-surface receptors and extracellular matrix components; crystallography of proteins in cell-cell interactions, signaling

Michael Lee, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases

Se-Jin Lee, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Growth and differentiation factors in mammalian development

Gary Lees, Associate Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Surgical illustration; contract & copyrights

Christopher Lehmann, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Health Sciences Informatics
Patient safety, agile developmet

Harold Lehmann, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Health Sciences Informatics
Decision modeling, evidence-based medicine

Kam Leong, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biological applications of synthetic polymers and pharmacokinetics; tissue engineering

Stuart Leslie, Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of technology; economic and urban geography; and engineering education

Andre Levchenko, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Signal transduction and cell-cell communication

Hyam Levitsky, Associate Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology; Pathobiology
Understanding the mechanism of anti-tumor immune responses; vaccine development; mechanisms of antigen-specific tolerance; immunotherapy of cancer

Dale Levitz, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Video Production

Min Li, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Neuroscience
Signal transduction in the mammalian nervous system; structure and function of cell surface proteins; electrical and chemical signaling in neurons

Li Lin, Assistant Professor, Hematology
Immunology
Biogenesis and assembly of NF-kappaB transcription factors; proteasome mediated protein degradation and processing

David Linden, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Cellular substrates of memory

Jun Liu, Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Chemical biology of signal transduction and cell cycle regulation; use of small molecules as probes to elucidate mechanisms of signal transduction; use of drugs and natural products as probes to study intracellular signal transduction pathways; molecular mechanism of regulation of angiogenesis and cell cylcle

Jon Lorsch, Associate Professor, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Mechanistic dissection of eukaryotic translation

Morris Low, Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
East Asian Science and Technology; 19th and 20th century; Japanese science

Charles Lowenstein, Associate Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology
Oxygen radicals and inflammation in the cardiovascular system

Carolyn Machamer, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Intracellular protein trafficking; Golgi complex structure/function; intracellular virus assembly; apoptosis

Peter Maloney, Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Structure and function of membrane transporters; secondary carriers of the MFS; reconstitution and crystallization of membrane function; CFTR and cystic fibrosis; ABC transporter ATPases

Steven Mandell, Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics
Health Sciences Informatics
Health information technology management

Hai-Quan Mao, Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Cell and tissue engineering; design, synthesis and application of polymeric materials for drug and gene delivery and tissue engineering

Eduardo Marban, Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Structure function relationship of ion channels; metabolic control of ion homeostasis; cardiac excitation contraction

Russell Margolis, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Genetic etiology and pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders

Harry Marks, Associate Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of Medicine, 20th century; medical research, history and policy; history of public health; history of statistics

Ernesto Marques, Research Associate, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Vaccine design and immunotherapies; immunomics; immunopathogenesis of dengue and HIV.

Nicholas Marsh-Armstrong, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Transgenic studies of CNS developmental gene regulation

Lee Martin, Associate Professor, Pathology
Neuroscience
Perinatal and environmental determinants of developmental pattern formation within cerebral cortex and basal ganglia`

Debra Mathews, Research Scientist, Bioethics Institute
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Intersection of bench science, public policy and society

Mark Mattson, Visiting Professor, National Institute of Aging
Neuroscience
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders

Andrew McCallion, Assistant Professor, Comparative Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Functional genomics, complex disease, gene regulation, non-coding variation in disease

Michael McCloskey, Professor, A&S, Cog Sci
Neuroscience
Cognitive neuropsychology of language and spatial cognition

Iain McIntosh, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Nail Patella syndrome; identification of genes mutated in common diseases

Victor McKusick, Professor, Medical Genetics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genetic basis of human disease; history of genetics

Roger McMacken, Professor, BSPH, Biochem Mol Biol
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Function of multiprotein assemblies, initiation mechanisms for DNA replication, mechanisms of modular chaperone action

Elliot McVeigh, Associate Professo, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Magnetic resonance imaging; image analysis with computers; cardiac mechanics

Millie Meffert, Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Neuroscience
Transcriptional regulation of neuronal function in health and disease

Joshua Mendell, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Post-translational expression of gene expression

William Merz, Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Medically important fungi; genomic make up; DNA typing; fungal virulence

Susan Michaelis, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction; protein targeting and secretion; yeast molecular genetics; yeast protein trafficking and human disease; ER quality control, endocytosis, ABC transporters; CaaX protein processing; cell-cell signaling; high-thro

Barbara Migeon, Professor, Pediatrics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Mechanisms responsible for X chromosome dosage compensation in females

Albert Mildvan, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Mechanisms of enzyme action; enzymes of DNA synthesis and hydrolysis; nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance; NMR studies of enzyme structure and enzyme-substrate interactions; isomerases

Paul Miller, Professor, BSPH, Biochem Mol Biol
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Nucleic acid bioorganic chemistry

Robert Miller, Associate Professor, Pathology
Health Sciences Informatics
Health information technology software engineering

Michael Miller, Professor, Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
Image understanding; computational anatomy; medical imaging

Guo-li Ming, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms regulating neuronal navigation in developing and adult CNS

Lloyd Minor, Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Neuroscience
Neurophysiology of the vestibular system

Mark Molliver, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Neurotoxicity: neuronal injury & microglia; neuronal mechanisms of substance abuse and addiction; serotonin & dopamine neurons: role of monoamine transporters

Denise Montell, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry
Genetics of epithelial to mesenchymal transitions and cell motility; cell-cell signaling in cell migration and invasion

Craig Montell, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of vision in Drosophila melanogaster; calcium signaling and TRP channel function; molecular genetics of signal transduction in the visual system

Timothy Moran, Professor, Psychiatry
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Biological basis of food intake, energy balance and obesity

Evangelos Moudrianakis, Professor, A&S, Biology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Chromatin structure and function

Douglas Murphy, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Cell biology of protein dynamics and organelle transport in neuronal cells

Kannenboyina Nagaraju, Assistant Professor, Rheumatology
Immunology
Generation and analysis of mouse models for human autoimmune diseases; identification and characterization of susceptibility genes in autoimmune disease

Avindra Nath, Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Neuropathogenesis of HIV infection

Jeremy Nathans, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of visual system development, function & disease

William Nelson, Professor, Oncology Center
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
The molecular pathogenesis of prostate cancer; pharmacology/toxicology of DNA damaging agents; role of DNA methylation in the pathogenesis of cancer; molecular mechanisms of chemoprevention against prostate cancer

David Newman-Toker, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Health Sciences Informatics
Informatics of diagnosis

John Nicholas, Associate Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular biology of oncogenic herpesviruses

Ernst Niebur, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Neuroscience
computational neuroscience

Richard O'Brien, Associate Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Molecular aspectsof synapse formation in the brain

Elizabeth O'Hearn, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Mechanisms of cerebellar degeneration

Kathleen Oliver, Research Associate, Health Sciences Informatics
Health Sciences Informatics
Consumer health informatics

Anna Orlova, Associate Professor, BSPH, Health Policy Management
Health Sciences Informatics
National Health Information Network, data standards in public health

Brian O'Rourke, Associate Professor, Cardiovascular
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Mitochondrial ion channels, bioenergenetics and cardiac excitation-contraction coupling

Marc Ostermeier, Assistant Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Biomolecular engineering

Randall Packard, Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
Social history of disease and healing in Africa; history of public health; history of colonial and post-colonial medicine

Duojia Pan, Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Molecular genetics of tumor suppression genes and oncogenes

Akhilesh Pandey, Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Global analysis of signal transduction pathways using mass spectrometry; bioinformatics; sequence databases and annotation; proteomics and mass spectrometry

Drew Pardoll, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology
T cell development and receptor function; tumor immunology

Gary Pasternack, Associate Professor, Pathology
Immunology; Pathobiology
Cancer biology; molecular determinants of prognosis; therapeutic targets

Michael Paulaitis, Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Computational molecular thermodynamics of protein solutions; molecular simulations

Peter Pedersen, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Cell energetics: Its molecular and chemical basis and relationship to mitochondria and molecular medicine; cancer and cystic fibrosis

Jonathan Pevsner, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Health Sciences Informatics; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience; Pathobiology
Molecular neurobiology specializing in the area of synaptic vesicle function; bioinformatics approaches to neurological disorders

Timothy Phelps, Associate Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Traditional media; animal & veterinary illustration

Fernando Pineda, Associate Professor, BSPH, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Health Sciences Informatics
Mass identification, bioinformatics education

Paula Pitha-Rowe, Professor, Oncology Center

Role of cytokines and chemokines in HIV pathogenicity and HIV-associated cancer; molecular mechanism of innate response to viral infection; Toll receptors; HIV-1, HHV-8

Gianna Pomata, Visiting Professor, History of Medicine
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
The epistemology of early modern medicine, medical humanism and empiricism, genres of medical writing, women medical authors, medicine and religion in early modern Europe

Joel Pomerantz, Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Immunology
Functional specificity and design of signal transduction pathways; signaling pathways that are important in innate immunity, adaptive immunity, and in cancer; pathways that regulate the activity of the pleiotropic transcription factor NF-kB

Martin Pomper, Associate Professor, Radiology and Radiological Science Neuroradiology
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
In vivo cellular and molecular imaging; imaging probe synthesis and development; multimodality functional imaging of cancer and brain, with focus on radionuclide-based techniques.

Aleksander Popel, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Fluid mechanics, mathematical modeling of micro cirulatory exchange

Gary Posner, Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Organic and medicinal chemistry aimed toward rational design and synthesis of new compounds for effective and safe chemotherapy of malaria, cancer, and psoriasis

Jonathan Powell, Assistant Professor, Oncology Center
Immunology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
A functional genomic approach to dissecting and clinically exploiting T-cell activation and tolerance

Sarah Poynton, Lecturer, Comparative Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
"Presentation Skills, Parasitology"

Donald Price, Professor, Pathology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience; Pathobiology
Mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and experimental therapeutics in models; neurobiology of human diseases, particularly neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic later schlerosis and Parkinson’s disease) and genetically engineer

Carey Priebe, Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Applied Math & Statistics
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging sciences; computational statistics, kernel and mixture estimates, statistical pattern recognition, statistical image analysis

Sean Prigge, Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Healt, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Crystallography of malaria proteins

Jerry Prince, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Image analysis and processing

Lawrence Principe, Associate Professor, A&S, History
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of chemistry/alchemy; early modern science; science and religion; chemical education

Peter Privalov, Professor, A&S, Biology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Thermodynamics of protein folding

Hamid Rabb, Associate Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Microvascular immune events that mediate ischemia reperfusion injury to kidneys

Daniel Raben, Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Structure, function and regulation of lipid metabolizing enzymes involved in signal transduction cascades; biochemistry and chemistry of lipids and lipid metabolizing enzymes involved in signaling cascades

Mahendra Rao, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Stem cell biology (NIA - National Institute of Aging)

Rajini Rao, Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Identification and molecular mechanisms of novel ion transporters in yeast and humans

Brenda Rapp, Associate Professor, A&S, Cog Sci
Neuroscience
Cognitive neuropsychology: cognitive models of reading and spelling, fMRI investigation of post-stroke recovery of language functions

Tilak Ratnanather, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging sciences; applications of computational and theoretical fluid dynamics in physiology, neuroscience, biology and medicine

Stuart Ray, Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
Immunology
Sequence variation and persistence of hepatitis C virus; relevance of sequence variation to cell-mediated immune responses; bioinformatics

Randall Reed, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Molecular genetics of olfaction; neuronal differentiation; molecular mechanisms of neuronal development and signal transduction

Stephanie Reel, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Informatics
Health Sciences Informatics
Health information technology management

Roger Reeves, Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Investigation of molecular genetic basis of Down syndrome pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches to amelioration; genetics of inflammatory disease.

David Rini, Associate Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
General& neurosurgical Illustration

Douglas Robinson, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Cytokinesis: Biochemically controlled mechanics

Karen Robinson, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Health Sciences Informatics
Evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews

Nancy Roderer, Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics
Health Sciences Informatics
Consumer health informatics, evaluation of health information technology

Ronald Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Urology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Urologic application of gene therapy

Laura Roman, Assistant Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Factors affecting the contribution of neural crest cells to craniofacial development; effects of retinoids and ethanol on zebrafish development

Lewis Romer, Associate Professor, Anes Crit Care Med
Biomedical Engineering; Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Cell-matrix adhesion, tyrosine kinases and integrin signaling, endothelial cell injury; cardiopulmonary systems physiology

Gabriele Ronnett, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
The olfactory system as model for neuronal development and regeneration; neuronal energy metabolism; mechanisms of signal transduction in neuronal differentiation and olfaction

George Rose, Professor, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Modeling and simulation of protein folding and protein structure; neuronal differentiation and signal transduction; theoretical approaches to protein and RNA folding

Kenneth Rose, Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Mammalian evolution; functional anatomy; paleontology

Noel Rose, Professor, BSPH, Mol Microbiol
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology; Pathobiology
Self-non-self discrimination, autoimmunity; autoimmune disease; clinical immunology; immunopathology; immunotoxicology

Antony Rosen, Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology
Mechanisms of autoimmunity with particular emphasis on the roles of apoptosis

Christopher Ross, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Neurobiology of Huntington's disease and related triplet repeat diseases, Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia; cell and mouse models of brain diseases

Jeffrey Rothstein, Professor, Neurology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Excitoxicity; glutamate transport; apoptosis; neurodegeneration

Charles Rudin, Associate Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Cellular responses to genotoxic stress, and apoptotic pathways contributing to cancer; novel therapeutic development in animal models of cancer

Christopher Ruff, Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Biomechanics; primate evolution; osteoporosis

David Ryugo, Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Neuroscience
Anatomy and physiology of the auditory nervous system

Murray Sachs, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Neurophysiology of auditory perception; psychophysics

George Sack, Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Human amyloid: A protein structure and pathophysiology

Scheherazade Sadegh-Nasseri, Associate Professor, Pathology
Immunology; Pathobiology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Mechanisms of antigen processing and presentation; structure and function of MHC proteins; regulation of T-cell function; molecular mechanisms of autoimmunity; quantitative aspects of T cell activation and tolerance; mechanisms of T-cell activation

Corinne Sandone, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
"Watercolor Technique, Operating Room Sketching, Surgical Illustration"

Daniel Sauder, Professor, Dermatology
Immunology
Molecular mechanisms involved in the cutaneous immune response

Akira Sawa, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Neurobiology of psychiatric illnesses

Joel Schildbach, Assistant Professor, A&S, Biology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Structural, biochemical, and function studies of proteins involved in DNA transfer by bacterial conjugation

Robert Schleif, Professor, A&S, Biology
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Mechanism of protein function, particularly regulatory proteins, using genetic, biochemical, biophysical, and computational methods

David Schlessinger, Professor, National Institute of Health
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genetics of complex diseases; molecular basis of ectodermal dysplasias and premature ovarian failure

Ronald Schnaar, Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Functional glycobiology of the nervous system; cell-cell recognition; nerve regeneration; Axon degeneration and regeneration

Jonathan Schneck, Associate Professor, Pathology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
Vaccine development, interaction of T cells and major histocompatability molecules; design of novel compounds that regulate T-cell responses and structural analysis of proteins central in the generation of immune response; study of MHC/Ig and TCR/Ig chim

Miguel Schoen, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Human anatomy

Lawrence Schramm, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Functional specificity of normal and regenerating spinal connections; neural control of metabolism; autonomic control systems; regulation of sympathetic neurons

Alan Scott, Associate Professor, Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Gene annotation; genotyping and genetic technologies; evolution

Gregg Semenza, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Transcriptional regulation of gene expression; mechanisms of transcription regulation involved in the maintenance of cellular and systemic oxygen homeostasis; analysis of transgenic mice, transfected cells, and cloned transcription factors

Ranjan Sen, Adjunct Professor, Medicine
Immunology
Gene regulation in lymphocytes; immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) and T cell receptor ? chain (TCR?) genes; regulation of active and passive cell death; the role of NF-kB in linking innate and adaptive immune responses

Geraldine Seydoux, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular genetics of germ cell development; asymmetric cell divisions; early embryogenesis and the soma-germline dichotomy; C. elegans

Reza Shadmehr, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience
Application of robotics to human motor control and learning; computational neuroscience; motor control and learning

Joel Shaper, Professor, Oncology Center
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular and cell biology of glycosyltransferases

Theresa Shapiro, Professor, Medicine
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Clinical pharmacology; molecular mechanisms of antiparasitic drug action; effects of topoisomerase inhibitors on DNA of trypanosomes; structure and activity of antimalarial trioxanes

Saul Sharkis, Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Cellular and molecular biology of hematopoietic stem cell

Amy Shelton, Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience, spatial cognition, learning and memory, development and individual differences

David Sherman, Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Neuroengineering and instrumentation; signal processing with neurological applications

Ie-Ming Shih, Associate Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Study of molecular genetic alterations in human cancer-identification; characterization of new oncogenes and tumor suppressors in the development of ovarian cancer as a model; molecular diagnostics of cancer in body fluids

Hyun Shin, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Immunology
Molecular mechanisms of natural immunity; mechanisms of activation of macrophages by lipopolysaccharide

David Shortle, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Protein folding and stability; NMR analysis of denatured protein; prediction of protein structure from sequence

Artin Shoukas, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Systems analysis of the circulatory systems

David Sidransky, Professor, Otol Head Neck Surg
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular progression and early detection of cancer

Robert Siliciano, Professor, Medicine
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Latency and viral reservoirs in HIV infection; AIDS vaccine design; T-cell recognition of HIV; mechanisms of cytotoxicity and antigen processing in AIDS vaccine development; analysis of virus load; host-virus interaction in HIV infection; drug resistance"

Donald Small, Associate Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Molecular biology of leukemia; molecularly targeted therapeutics; hematopoiesis, signal transduction

Kirby Smith, Associate Professor, Pedriatrics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular biology of the peroxisome; genetic bases for phenotypic variability of inherited disease

Solomon Snyder, Professor, Neuroscience
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular aspects of neurotransmission; second messengers and drug action in the nervous system; molecular basis of neural signal transduction

Shanthini Sockanathan, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
The specification of spinal motor neuron development

Barbara Sollner-Webb, Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biological Chemistry
Eukaryotic gene expression; transcription by RNA polymerase I; rRNA transcription and processing in vertebrates and yeast; trypanosomal RNA editing; nuclear DNA organization

Mark Soloski, Professor, Medicine
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Immunology
Role of mammalian major histocompatibility complex proteins in disease; structure and function of mouse and human MHC gene products; immune response to stress proteins; role of MHC gene products in regulating T-cell immune responses; immune response to in

Hongjun Song, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Mechanisms of neuronal development by adult neural stem cells; neurogenesis in the adult CNS

Alexander Spector, Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Computational biology and bioinformatics; mathematical and computational modeling, cell mechanics, hearing science

Forrest Spencer, Associate Professor, Medicine
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Centromere function and cell cycle control in yeast; molecular genetics of chromosome segregation; yeast artificial chromosomes; Kinetochore surveillance in cell cycle control

Craig Stark, Assistant Professor, A&S, Psychology
Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory

James Stivers, Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences

Molecular mechanism and inhibition of enzymes involved in DNA and RNA metabolism;

Veit Stuphorn, Assistant Professor, A&S, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Neuroscience
Neurophysiological mechanisms of CNS development; thyroid hormone action in neural development

Ian Suk, Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
Medical & Biological Illustration
"Neurosurgical Illustration"

Saraswati Sukumar, Associate Professor, Oncology
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Pathobiology
Molecular genetics of breast cancer; oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes

Sean Sun, Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Computational biology and bioinformatics

Paul Talalay, Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular mechanisms in chemical and dietary protection against mutagens and carcinogens; enzymology of steroid hormones

Mark Teaford, Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Functional morphology; primate ecology and evolution

Nitish Thakor, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Medical instrumentation; cardiovascular and neurologic spinal processing and patient monitoring microcomputers and robotics applications

David Thiemann, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Health Sciences Informatics
Decision Support

George Thomas, Professor, Pediatrics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Cytogenetic abnormalities and inborn errors of metabolism associated with developmental abnormalities

Catherine Thompson, Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of CNS development; thyroid hormone action in neural development

Allen Tien, Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics
Health Sciences Informatics
Model-driven architectures

Daniel Todes, Professor, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Science, Medicine & Technology
History of Russian medicine and science; social relations of scientific thought; history of biomedical sciences

Joel Tolman, Assistant Professor, A&S
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Biomolecular recognition, structural genomics, experimental and theoretical NMR

Gordon Tomaselli, Associate Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Structure function of ion channels

Craig Townsend, Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Biosynthesis of natural products and biomimetic synthesis,, enzymology and molecular biology, fatty acid synthase inhibitors for cancer, tuberculosis and obesity

Benjamin Tsui, Professor, Radiology and Radiological Science Medical Imaging Physics
Biomedical Engineering
Medical Imaging; SPECT; PET

Leslie Tung, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Electro physiology and contractile force of single heart cells; analysis of multicellular structure

George Uhl, Associate Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Molecular biology and genetics of drugs abuse

David Valle, Professor, Pediatrics
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Clinical, biochemical, molecular and therapeuticaspects of genetic disease

Peter Van Zijl, Professor, Radiology and Radiological Science Magnetic Resonance Research
Biomedical Engineering; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Methodology for NMR and MRI and application to brain and cancer studies; functional brain imaging

Victor Velculescu, Assistant Professor, Oncology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Molecular genetics of human cancer

Vidal Vidal, Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Center for Imaging Science
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging sciences; computer vision; robotics

Raphael Viscidi, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Pathobiology
Human papillomovirus infection-humoral immune responses; vaccine development-avian influenza and SARS virus-like particle vaccines; microbial population genetics-epidemiological correlates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae population genetics using Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST); human polyomavirus antibody responses in renal transplantation and cancer

Bert Vogelstein, Professor, Oncology Center
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Molecular genetics of human cancer and its translational implications for patient management

Rudiger (Joachim Von Der Heydt, Professor, Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neurophysiological foundations of perception and cognition

Herschel Wade, Assistant Professor, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Molecular mechanisms of ligand-dependent transcriptional activation-repression, broadly-specific receptor-ligand systems

Xiaoqin Wang, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience
"Neurophysiology of the auditory cortex; neural basis of speech perception and learning; computational neuroscience"

Tao Wang, Assistant Professor, Institute of Genetic Medicine
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology
Genetic basis of X-linked mental retardation

Jeff Wang, Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
BioMEMS; microfluidics; nano/microfabrication; experimental molecular dynamics; single molecule manipulation and detection

Barbara Wasowska, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Pathobiology
Transplantation immunology with focus on the role of alloantibody and complement in acute and chronic rejection in experimental and human models

Paul Watkins, Professor, Neurology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Defects in fatty acid metabolism in human genetic neurodegenerative disorders; peroxisomal diseases and fatty acid metabolism

Catherine Weaver, Lecturer, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Digital Presentations

David Weishampel, Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
Functional Anatomy & Evolution
Vertebrate paleobiology; functional morphology; systematics; paleoecology; history of science

Brent Whitaker, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Aquatic veterinary medicine

Charles Wiener, Associate Professor, Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Medical education; pulmonary circulation and hypoxia; respiratory muscle function in neuromuscular diseases

Katherine Wilson, Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Nuclear envelope assembly and function

Mary Ann Wilson, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Mechanisms of development, plasticity, and injury in the immature brain

Raimond Winslow, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Health Sciences Informatics
Computational biology; nonlinear dynamical systems; high-performance computing

Dennis Wirtz, Assistant Professor, A&S, Chem Eng
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Micromanipulation of individual molecules and live cell biophysics

Cynthia Wolberger, Professor, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
X Structural and mechanistic basis of transcriptional regulation; crystallography of transcriptional silencing enzymes

Bang Wong, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine
Medical & Biological Illustration
Digital 2D animation; web

Philip Wong, Associate Professor, Pathology
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience; Pathobiology
Molecular mechanisms and animal models of neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease; experimental therapeutics of neurodegenerative diseases

Sarah Woodson, Professor, A&S, Biophysics
Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Folding and dynamics of RNA and RNA-protein complexes

Tom Woolf, Associate Professor, Physiology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Biomedical Engineering; Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics
Computational biophysics of membrane systems, membrane proteins, molecular and cellular models of physiological function, protein: lipid interactions, development of new methods for relative free energy changes and for conformational transitions

Paul Worley, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal plasticity; gene programs in activity-dependent neural plasticity

Tzyy-Choou Wu, Associate Professor, Pathology
Immunology; Pathobiology
"Antigen-specific cancer vaccines; DNA vaccines; recombinant vaccina vaccines; murine tumor models; mechanisms of tumor evasion; mechanisms of tumor metastasis; molecular pathology; molecular diagnosis"

Joy Yang, Associate Professor, Cell Biology
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Molecular genetic studies of cell movement and migration in mammalian development

Steven Yantis, Professor, A&S, Psychology
Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience of vision

Kevin Yarema, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Self surface chemistry

William Yasnoff, Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Information Sciences
Health Sciences Informatics
Evaluation of regional information infrastructures

King-Wai Yau, Professor, Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Retinal light detection and signaling; visual and olfactory sensory transduction

Laurent Younes, Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Applied Math & Statistics
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging sciences; mathematics applied to image processing based on random field modeling of images

Eric Young, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Auditory perception and neurophysiology; organization of central auditory system; sensory processes

Michael Yu, Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Material Sciences Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Cell and tissue engineering; biomaterials

David Yue, Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Neuroscience
Molecular physiology of ionic channels; molecular physiology of calcium signaling via calcium channels

Natasha Zachara, Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
Biological Chemistry
The role of nucleocytoplasmic glycosylation, O-GlcNAc, in signal transduction

Donald Zack, Professor, Ophthalmology
Human Genetics & Molecular Biology; Neuroscience
Molecular genetic approaches to the study of retinal development and function and disease

Fidel Zavala, Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Healt, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Immunology
T-cell mediated immunity against malaria parasites; study of the molecular mechanisms regulating the development of effector and memory T-cell populations

David Zee, Professor, Neurology
Neuroscience
Regulation of eye movements

Pamela Zeitlin, Professor, Pediatrics
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Role of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in lung development; neonatal gene therapy of cystic fibrosis using adeno associated virus; pharmacological therapy for cystic fibrosis

Dongming Zhang, Research Associate, Health Sciences Informatics
Health Sciences Informatics
Digital libraries

Jin Zhang, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Neuroscience; Program in Molecular & Computational Biophysics; Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Spatiotemporal Regulation of PKA and Akt Signaling

Kechen Zhang, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering; Neuroscience
Theoretical and computational neuroscience; neural computation

Fengquan Zhou, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of axon growth and guidance during development and CNS regeneration

Heng Zhu, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Protein chip and bioinformatics approaches to analyzing posttranslational modifications, signaling network, and host-pathogen interactions in humans, viruses, yeast, and bacteria.

M. Christine Zink, Professor, Comparative Medicine
Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Pathobiology
Animal models of HIV neurological and pulmonary disease; pathogenesis of SIV infection as a model of human AIDS