Brian J. Altman, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest:
Role of Circadian Rhythm in in gene regulation and cancer cell biology and metabolism.
John M. Ashton, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
Emerging genomics, cancer stem cell biology, data science.
Jeevisha Bajaj, Ph.D.
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Research Interest:
Molecular mechanisms of cancer stem cell interactions with tumor microenvironment in disease progression.
Isaac S. Harris, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Research Interest:
The role of antioxidants in disease and the development of novel strategies to manipulate them therapeutically.
Aram Hezel, M.D.
| Associate Professor, Medicine
Research Interest:
Genetics of pancreatic and biliary tract cancers.
Hartmut Land, Ph.D.
| Professor & Chair, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest:
Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and cancer cell metabolism.
Lynne Elizabeth Maquat, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Research Interest:
The molecular basis of human diseases, including but not limited to the most common single-gene cause of intellectual disability and autism, Fragile X Syndrome, and the development of therapeutics.
Marlies P. Rossmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Interest: Elucidate the metabolic origins of a variety of diseases, facilitate novel metabolism-centered differentiation therapies for hematological malignancies, and combat the decline in lymphoid cell production by the aging hematopoietic system.
Helene McMurray, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
tRNA biogenesis, function and quality control; intellectual disability due to deficiencies.
Stephano Spano Mello, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest:
Understanding how nuclear proteins and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) regulate gene transcription in pancreatic preneoplastic lesions, gaining knowledge of the process of cellular transformation and tumor initiation.
Patrick J. Murphy, Ph.D.
| Assistant Professor, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest:
Mechanisms that activate or silence genes as cells transition from one state to another.
Mark Noble, Ph.D.
| Professor, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
Discovering new treatments for afflictions that lack satisfactory therapies, and to better understand the toxicity of currently used medicines; studies span normal and pathological cell function, with focus on stem and progenitor cells.
Peng Yao, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor, Department of Medicine , Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Interest:
Pathophysiological function and molecular mechanism of new non-coding RNAs (and RBPs) and new modes of gene regulation in cardiac system and cardiovascular disease.
Archibald S. Perkins, Ph.D.
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Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests:
Genetic mechanisms in acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome with focus on the zinc finger oncoprotein EVI1.
Jacques Robert, Ph.D.
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Professor - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Interim Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor - Department of Environmental Medicine Vice Chair - Department of Microbiology and Immunology |
Research Interest:
Experimental platform using the amphibian Xenopus for research in immunotoxicology, fundamental and medical immunology.
Paula M. Vertino, Ph.D.
| Professor - Department of Biomedical Genetics (SMD)
- Wilmot Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Genomics - Cancer Center
Professor - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (SMD)
Research Interest:
Cancer epigenetics: the role of DNA methylation and chromatin in driving cancer phenotypes and as a target for therapeutic intervention.
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