Cellular and Molecular Pathology (CMP)
Graduate Training Program
 
Faculty and Their Research Interests


BulletStephen F. Badylak, MD, PhD
 - Regenerative medicine and biologic scaffolds.

BulletYaacov Barak, PhD
 - Life Cycle of the adipocyte. Placental development and metabolism.

BulletMichael J. Becich, MD, PhD
 - Cancer biology and bioinformatics.

BulletDorothea Becker, Ph.D.
 - Genes that regulate the onset and progression of melanoma

BulletJames Becker, Ph.D.
 - human memory disorders, the neuroanatomical damage which produces human memory disorders.

BulletTimothy R. Billiar, MD
 - Roles of nitric oxide in acute inflammatory reactions.

BulletHarry C. Blair, MD
 - Bone physiology and pathology

BulletCarol Bostwick, PhD
 - Mediators of fibrosis in scleroderma skin and lung.

BulletRichard Chaillet, MD, PhD
 - Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance and genomic imprinting in mammals

BulletYuan Chang, MD
 - Epidemiology and biological properties of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.

BulletAlex F. Chen, MD, PhD
 - Vascular Surgery Research.

BulletShi-Yuan Cheng, PhD
 - Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Progression, Invasion, Metastasis and Angiogenesis.

BulletCharleen T. Chu, MD, PhD
 - Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection in Parkinson's disease and retinal degeneration.

BulletPaula Clemens, MD
 - Gene delivery to striated muscle

BulletMarie C. DeFrances, MD, PhD
 - PI3K signaling mechanisms in hepatocytes.

BulletAnthony J. Demetris, MD
 - The role of inflammatory cytokines and growth factors in the development of cirrhosis & tolerance induction and chronic tissue rejection.

BulletH. Henry Dong, PhD
 - Insulin Resistance and Diabetic Dyslipidemia.

BulletAlbert D. Donnenberg, PhD
 - Immunologic consequences of autologous transplantation in systemic sclerosis, stem and progenitor cells for regenerative therapy.

BulletIra J. Fox, MD
  - Experimental therapies for liver disease and differentiation of human ES and iPS cells into hepatocytes

BulletChandrashekhar R. Gandhi, Ph.D.
 - Mechanisms of liver growth and disease.

BulletNick Giannoukakis, PhD
 - Gene and cell therapy for autoimmunity.

BulletJames Gnarra, PhD
 - The effects of von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) inactivation and hypoxia on post-transcriptional regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA..

BulletJennifer R. Grandis, M.D.
 - TGF- /EGFR autocrine signaling in head and neck carcinogenesis

BulletDavid Hackam, M.D., Ph.D.
 - To understand the mechanisms governing the migration of intestinal epithelial cells during conditions of intestinal inflammation

BulletPatricia A. Hebda, PhD
 - Wound healing, tissue engineering and pathogenesis of inflammation in otitis media

BulletJohnny Huard, PhD
 - Tissue engineering

BulletNahed Ismail, MD, MSc, PhD, D(ABMM), D(ABMLI)
 - Understanding the immune mechanisms involved in host defense against intracellular bacteria

BulletNaftali Kaminski, MD
 - The basic mechanisms underlying pulmonary fibrosis and the way that molecular networks determine tissue and cellular phenotype

BulletWilliam Klunk, MD, PhD
 - Imaging and treatment in Alzheimer's disease

BulletScott Kulich, MD, PhD
 - the interaction between oxidative neurotoxins and intracellular signal transduction

BulletEric Lagasse, PhD
 - Human stem/progenitor cells for liver diseases.

BulletYouhua Liu, PhD
 - Experimental Pathologyof renal fibrosis.

BulletAnna E Lokshin, PhD
 - Identification of cancer biomarkers for screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and disease monitoring of solid tumo.

BulletJianhua Luo, MD, PhD
 - Analysis of gene expression in human malignancies.

BulletWendy M. Mars, PhD
 - The role of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and the plasminogen activator system in tissue regeneration

BulletKacey Marra, PhD
 - Stem cell and tissue engineering

BulletGeorge Michalopoulos, MD, PhD
 - Use the differentiated cells of the liver (hepatocytes) as models to understand the mechanisms that regulate growth of complex differentiated cells and whole organs.

BulletSatdarshan P. Singh Monga, M. D.
 - Molecular mechanisms of liver growth and development, in health and disease.

BulletYuri E. Nikiforov, M.D., Ph.D.
 - Molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced carcinogenesis and chromosomal rearrangements in human cells and molecular basis of thyroid cancer.

BulletDenise S. O'Keefe, PhD
 - Epigenetic changes and the etiology of prostate cancer.

BulletZoltan Oltvai, MD, PhD
 - Systems biology

BulletTim D. Oury, MD, PhD
 - Oxidative mechanisms in pulmonary, vascular, and neuro, pathophysiology

BulletIvona Pandrea MD, PhD
 - SIV pathogenesis in progressive and nonprogressive hosts. Immune therapies for HIV infection

BulletJon D. Piganelli, PhD
 - T cell mediated effector mechanisms of beta cell destruction in Type I Diabetes (TID).

BulletJan Pilch, MD
 - Understanding cell adhesion and extracellular matrix biology as it relates to blood clotting, angiogenesis and tumor metastasis.

BulletLisa J. Robinson, MD
 - Signaling mechanisms in the regulation of normal and abnormal myelopoiesis.

BulletAdam Rosendorff, MD
 - Role of endoplasmic reticulum stress and autophagy in regulation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic replication.

BulletErin Rubin, MD
 - Liver senescence, regeneration and proliferation.

BulletSteven D. Shapiro, M.D.
 - The biological and pathological function of proteinases in lung

BulletAlejandro Soto-Gutierrez, MD, PhD
 - Development of new technologies for organ replacement using regenerative medicine approaches

BulletJill Siegfried, PhD
 - The role of growth factors and hormones in the development and growth of human lung cancer.

BulletDonna B. Stolz, Ph.D.
 - Angiogenesis and endothelial cells proliferate, migrate and differentiation

BulletUrvashi Surti, PhD
 - The molecular cytogenetics of pregnancy loss and cancer.

BulletKenichi (Ken) Tamama, MD, PhD, FCAP
 - Cellular and molecular biology of mesenchymal stem cells.

BulletBryan W. Tillman, M.D., Ph.D.
 - To develop novel therapies for vascular graft failure and bioreactor conditioned, tissue engineered grafts for vascular reconstruction

BulletYoram Vodovotz, PhD
 - The biology of shock states, the role and biology of nitric oxide in shock and other inflammatory states

BulletDavid Vorp, PhD
 - Vascular remodeling and regeneration

BulletZhou Wang, PhD
 - The mechanism of androgen action and the roles of androgens in benign and cancerous prostate growth.

BulletAlan Wells, MD, DMS
 - The role of cell migration in physiologic and pathologic conditions.

BulletSally Wenzel, MD
 - The pathogenesis of human asthma.

BulletClayton A. Wiley, MD, PhD
 - Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and in particular on viral induced nervous system diseases.

Bullet Cary Wu, PhD
 - Cell adhesion: molecular mechanism and the roles in the pathogenesis of cancer and diabetic nephropathy.

BulletJian Yu, PhD
 - The molecular mechanisms of apoptosis in mammalian cells and its role in cancer therapy and carcinogenesis.

BulletReza Zarnegar, PhD
 - The analysis of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and HGF receptor (a protooncogene) function and their genetic regulation at the molecular level in vivo.



 

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