Affiliated Faculty

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest: LncRNA control of heart development and disease; Discovery and function of micropeptides encoded by putative lncRNAs; Genome-editing by RNA-guided nucleases.

Pharmacology & Physiology
Neurology
Research Interest:
Signaling transduction mechanisms in the vascular system

Research Interest: Pharmacology of brain and lymphocytic opioid receptors

Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Anesthesiology and Perioperative MedicinePharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest: Cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. Role of Mitochondria and metabolism in ischemic preconditioning and anesthetic preconditioning.

Pharmacology & Physiology
Neurosurgery
Research Interest: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Microenvironmental Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
The role of CAv 1, 2 in tendon formation and heterotopic bone (HO) formation

Biomedical Engineering
Pediatrics
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of gene delivery and development of gene therapies for lung disease

Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of neuropeptide signal transduction

Pharmacology & Physiology
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Our research interests span three areas including epigenetic mechanisms of mitotic cell division, chromatin, heterochromatin, histone variants and modifications; biomineralization of odontogenic tissues and finally generating tools for engineering and regeneration of complex periodontal tissues.

Research Interest: Molecular Mechanisms of Calcium Signaling in Striated Muscle

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Pharmacology & Physiology Research Interest: TRP channels, Ca2+ signaling, blood vessels, nanoscale signaling complexes, cerebral vascular function, neurovascular coupling, autoregulation, cerebral small vessel diseases, vascular dementia

Medicine
Nephrology
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Medicine Pharmacology & Physiology Research Interest: Understanding the neural pathways and biochemical processes involved in controlling blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes, and metabolic disorders

Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
OrthopaedicsPharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Role of Mitochondria in regulation of cell fate in normal stem cells and cancer cells

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Translational women’s health research; To identify previously unknown mechanisms of disease for disabling vulvar conditions, namely vulvodynia and lichens

Pediatrics
Research Interest:
Understanding the pathogenesis of Acute Lung Injury (ALI), a life threatening pulmonary inflammatory condition

Neuroscience
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Understanding the molecular basis of behaviors relevant to stress and the actions of fast antidepressant and anxiolytic drugs, aiming to identify specific circuits, neuronal subpopulations and synaptic mechanisms involved in these responses.

Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Role of cell-cell contact in regulating cellular function in both the normal and disease state

Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Pharmacology & Physiology
Psychiatry
Research Interest:
Basal ganglia and degenerative diseases


Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Biomedical GeneticsResearch Interest:
Understanding the roles of antioxidants in disease

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Understanding the mechanisms by which the extracellular matrix protein, fibronectin, affects cell and tissue functions that are critical for wound repair. We study both the structural mechanisms and intracellular signaling events that mediate cell and tissue responses to matrix fibronectin. In turn, we are using this information to develop novel technologies for tissue engineering, and therapeutic approaches to promote tissue regeneration in chronic wounds.

Otolaryngology
Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Synaptic pharmaco-physiology of vestibular efferent-afferent interactions


Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Pharmacology & PhysiologyAnesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Research Interest:
Molecular mechanisms of Neurodegeneration

Research Interest: G protein coupled receptor signaling and modulation of ion channels in neurons

Center for Tumor Immunology Research
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Pharmacology & PhysiologyMicrobiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Cancer immunotherapy/Host immune response to influenza infection/ Inflammation biology of sepsis

Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest:
Mechanotransduction of musculoskeletal cells and associated human disease; Physiology and pathophysiology of mechanosensitive ion channels

Neurology
Research Interest: Determining the therapeutic promise of engineered tRNAs for treatment of nonsense associated diseases and investigating the pathomechanisms of skeletal muscle weakness and wasting in myotonic dystrophy


Neuroscience
Pharmacology & Physiology
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Investigation of the molecules, receptors, and neural circuits that influence social interactions, including the actions of mammalian pheromones

Microbiology & Immunology
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Research Interest:
Platelets in vascular injury and inflammation

Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Pharmacology & PhysiologyMedicine
Research Interest: Integrative Physiology

Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Pharmacology & PhysiologyResearch Interest:
Elucidate the molecular mechanisms of divalent metal neurotoxicity and mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

Research Interest: Orphan G protein coupled receptors in brain and visual systems

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Structural and functional investigation of the molecular mechanisms, dynamics, cellular organization, and spatiotemporal aspects of G protein and cyclase signaling pathways. Cryo-EM; GPCRs; membrane proteins; signal transduction.
(Incoming Faculty - Spring 2025)

Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
PediatricsMedicine
Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest: Mechanisms that control the development of the heart

Pediatrics
Research Interest:
The mechanisms of lung vascular endothelial cell dysfunction in acute lung injury


Pharmacology & Physiology
Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of heart development, disease, and regeneration; Transcriptional regulation of fibroblast plasticity and cardiac fibrosis

Flaum Eye Institute
Neuroscience
Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Retinal degeneration and maladaptive plasticity in inner retinal circuits.

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest: Neural circuit mechanisms underlying cognitive control of sensorimotor functions

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins

Medicine
Research Interest:
Thrombosis and platelet activation in vascular pathology of pulmonary hypertension; clinical trial design in pulmonary hypertension

Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Pharmacology & PhysiologyAnesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Research Interest: Optogenetics to study the roles of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in mitochondrial physiology and stress signaling.

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Vascular Biology and Inflammation in Hypertension and Kidney Disease

Neuroscience
Research Interest: Molecular and signaling mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in memory formation and mental health

Research Interest: Regulation and Function of Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases in the Cardiovascular System

Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Biochemistry & BiophysicsMedicine
Research Interest:
Pathophysiological function and molecular mechanism of new non-coding RNAs and RNA-binding proteins and translational control in cardiac system and cardiovascular disease

Dentistry
Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
NF-kB signaling pathway, Apoptosis signaling pathway, Bone metabolism, and Osteoimmunology.

Biomedical Engineering
Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Developing intravital imaging-based approaches to better understand the bone marrow microenvironment regulating the skeletal, hematopoietic, and malignant stem cells

Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest: Mechanisms Underlying Ca2+ Signaling Events in Exocrine Cells