Faculty

Principal Investigators

Edward M. Schwarz, Ph.D., Yeshiva, Einstein, 1993 
Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedics
Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR)
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Osteoimmunology and Novel Drug Therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Bone Regeneration and Osteomyelitis

Jennifer H. Anolik, M.D, Ph.D, University of Rochester 1994, Ph.D., 1996, M.D.
Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
B Cell Autoimmunity and Novel Drug Therapies for Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoimmunology

Hani A. Awad, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1999 
Donald and Mary Clark Professor of Orthopaedics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR)
Director, BMTI Core CMSR
Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering

Jeevisha Bajaj, Ph.D., National Center for Biological Sciences, TIFR, 2011
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics
Role of cancer stem cell interactions with their microenvironment in disease progression

Christopher Beck, M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2000, 2005
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, of Neurology, for the Center for Health and Technology and of Orthopaedics

Karen L. Bentley, M.S., University of Rochester, 1984
Senior Associate of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research

Brendan F. Boyce, M.D., UK-U Glasgow, 1972 
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Anatomic Pathology; Co-Director, HBMI Core CMSR
Bone Cell Biology and Bone Pathology

Mark R. Buckley, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2010 
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Multi-scale Biomechanics (Cell Level to the Organ Level)

Laura M. Calvi, M.D., Harvard, 1995
Dean's Professor of Medicine - Endocrine/Metabolism
Microenvironment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC) in the Bone; Stem Cell Microenvironmental Interactions and Pharmacologic Strategies

Chike Cao, Ph.D., Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 2007
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Calvin L. Cole, Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2016
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and of Surgery, Cancer Control 
Biological Mechanisms of Cancer-Related Skeletal Muscle Wasting, Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement 

David J. Ciufo, M.D., University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 2014
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Robert T. Dirksen, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1991
Lewis Pratt Ross Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Physiology
Elucidate the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms that Control Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in Skeletal Muscle Cells in Health and Disease

Roman A. Eliseev, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2002
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Role of mitochondria in regulation of cell fate in normal stem cells and in cancer cells

Benjamin Frisch, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2012
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Hematology/Oncology
Hematopoiesis, Leukemic bone marrow microenvironment

Michael Giacomelli, Ph.D., Duke University, 2012
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Steve Gill, Ph.D., Kansas State University, 1989
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Microbial pathogens and the influence of the human microbiome on human health and disease

Brian D. Giordano, M.D., SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine, 2004
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Co-Director, Hip Preservation Program
Hip Abductor Sisease and its Relationship with the Progression of Hip Osteoarthritis

Ram Haddas, Ph.D., Texas Tech University Health, 2013 
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
 

Jennifer H. Jonason, Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Signaling Mechanisms of Skeletal Development and Disease

Constantinos Ketonis, M.D., Ph.D., Jefferson Medical College, 2011
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Orthopaedics, Implant Development, Microbiology and Infection, Biofilms

John Paul Ketz, M.D., Medical College of Ohio, 2002
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics

Benjamin Korman, M.D., Ohio State University, 2009
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology 

Rondy M. Lazaro, M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2014
Senior Instructor of Physical Medicine

Jonathan Leckenby, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., University of London, 2006
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Plastic Surgery

Whasil Lee, Ph.D., Duke University, 2011
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Pharmacology and Physiology
Mechanotransduction Signaling Mechanisms of Musculoskeletal Cells 

Brea C. Lipe, M.D., Albany Medical Center, 2005
Associate Professor of Medicine

Alayna E. Loiselle, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2009                                                      
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Co-Director, HBMI Core CMSR
Molecular Mechanisms of Tendon and Bone Regeneration

R. John Looney, M.D., University of Rochester, 1976 
Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology

Allison J. Lopatkin, Ph.D., Duke University, 2017 
Assistant Professor - Chemical Engineering
Antibiotic Resistance, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Systems/Synthetic Biology

John D. Lueck, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2007
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology and of Neurology (Joint)

Michael Maloney, M.D., Georgetown University, 1992
Dean's Professor of Orthopaedics

Sandeep Mannava, M.D., Ph.D., SUNY Upstate (M.D.), 2009, Wake Forest University (Ph.D.), 2012
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Surgery, Sports Medicine, Biology of Aging, Regenerative Medicine, Soft Tissue Mechanics 

James McGrath, Ph.D., Harvard-MIT, 1998
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Cell Motility, and Quantitative light microscopy​

Benjamin L. Miller, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994
Professor of Dermatology and of Biomedical Engineering
 

Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 2014
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Thomas Myers, M.D., Temple University School of Medicine, 2005
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Gregg T. Nicandri, M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University GME Office, 2003
Professor of Orthopaedics

Anne E.C. Nichols, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Inst & State University (Virginia Tech), 2018
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Molecular and Cell Biology of Tendon Adaptation and Tendinopathy

Luke Joseph Peppone, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 2007
Associate Professor of Surgery, of Orthopaedics (Joint), and of Cancer Center (Joint)

J. Edward Puzas, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1976
Senior Associate Dean, Basic Research
Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and of Environmental Medicine

Homaira Rahimi, M.D., Rutgers University, 2004; MTR, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Inflammatory arthritis, osteoimmunology and lymphatic dysfunction

Benjamin F. Ricciardi, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, 2009
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Christopher Ritchlin, M.D, M.P.H., Albany Medical College (M.D.), 1982, University of Rochester (M.P.H.), 2008
Professor and Chair of Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology 

Katherine H. Rizzone, M.D., M.P.H., University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 2008
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and of Pediatrics (Joint)

Paul T. Rubery, M.D., Cornell University, 1988
Marjorie Strong Wehle Professor and Chair, Department of Orthopaedics

Ilya Voloshin, M.D., Dartmouth, 1998 
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics

Edith M. Williams, M.S., Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007
Dean's Associate Professor of Health Equity

Ronald Wesley Wood, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1974
Research Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of Neuroscience (Joint) and of Urology (Joint) 

Chia-Lung Wu, Ph.D., Duke University, 2015
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Chao Xie, M.D., M.S.B.A., Zunyi Medical College (M.D.), 1992, University of Rochester (M.S.B.A.), 2017
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Vice Chair for Biomedical Research and Training in China 

Lianping Xing, M.D., Ph.D., China-Fourth Military Medical University (M.D.), 1977, Penn State University (Ph.D.),1994 
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 
Bone Cancer Biology, Musculoskeletal Repair and Maintenance 

Zhenqiang Yao, Ph.D., University of Westminster, 2016
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 

Shu-Chi (Allison) Yeh, Ph.D., McMaster University, 2015
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Hengwei Zhang, B.Med., Ph.D., Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu,
2005
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
 

Xinping Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Shanghai Medical University (M.D.), 1990, University of Rochester (Ph.D.), 1999
Professor of Orthopaedics

Yi Zhang, Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2001; M.S., Simon Business
School, University of Rochester, 2012; M.B.A., Simon Business School, University
of Rochester, 2014
Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Track Faculty

John L. Daiss, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1982
Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Immune Response to Bacterial Infections, Diagnostics of Bacterial Infections, Physical Bases of Chronic Infection

Maria De La Luz Garcia-Hernandez, Ph.D., Center of Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Molecular Biomedicine, 2002
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology

Nida Meednu, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2009
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology 

Javier Rangel-Moreno, Ph.D., Mexico-Natl Polytechnic Institute, 2002
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology 

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Affiliated Faculty

Allen P. Anandarajah, M.B.B.S., University of Nigeria, 1990
Associate Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology 

John M. Ashton, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2011
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics
Co-Director, Functional Genomics Center

Judith A. Baumhauer, M.D., University of Vermont (M.D.), 1989, University of Rochester (M.P.H.), 2009 
Professor of Orthopaedics

Michael W. Becker, M.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1996
Professor of Medicine - Hematology/Oncology

Danielle Benoit, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2006
Adjunct Professor
Therapeutic Biomaterials 

Andrew J. Berger, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
Professor of Optics and of Biomedical Engineering

Paul S. Brookes, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1997
Professor of Anesthesiology and of Pharmacology and Physiology

Edward Brown, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Neuroscience

Timothy P. Bushnell, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1999
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Shared Resource Laboratories

Emily Carmody, M.D., University of Rochester, 2003 
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and of the Cancer Center 
Director, Center for Bone Health
Director, Fracture Liaison Service

Regine Choe, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Lisa A. Delouise, Ph.D., M.P.D., Penn State University, 1984 
Associate Professor of Dermatology and of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Paul Dunman, Ph.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry - NJ, 1999
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and of Ophthalmology

Rudi Fasan, Ph.D., University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2005
Andrew S. Kende Professor of Chemistry

Adolph S. Flemister, M.D., Howard University College of Medicine, 1991
Professor of Orthopaedics
Chief of the Foot & Ankle Division and Podiatry

Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, 2000 
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology
Biology of Aging

Isaac Harris, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2013
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics 

Minsoo Kim, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2001
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and of Pharmacology and Physiology (Joint)

Catherine K. Kuo, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Mechanobiology, Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering, Development Biology, Biomaterials, Orthopaedics

Jane Larae Liesveld, M.D., University of Iowa College of Medicine, 1980
Professor of Medicine

David C. Linehan, M.D., University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 1990
CEO, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)
Dean, School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD)
Senior Vice President, University of Rochester Health Sciences

Kah Poh Loh, B.Med.Sci., M.B.B.Ch., B.A.O., Royal College of Surgeons
in Ireland, 2012
Senior Instructor of Medicine

Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2009 
Professor and Director, Center for RNA Biology
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cancer Center
J. Lowell Orbison Distinguished Service Alumni Professor
Disease-Associated mRNA Decay Pathways

David J. Mitten, M.D., University of Rochester, 1992
Professor of Orthopaedics

​Patrick J. Murphy, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2013
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics and of Biology (Joint)

Karen M. Mustian, Ph.D., U of N Carolina at Greensboro, 2003;
M.P.H., University of Rochester, 2009
Professor of Surgery, of Public Health Sciences (Joint), of Radiation Oncology (Joint) and of Cancer Center (Joint)

Mark Noble, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1977
Martha M. Freeman, MD Professor in Biomedical Genetics
Professor of Neuroscience

Archibald Perkins, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surg, 1986
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Ruchira Singh, Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2008
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, of Center for Visual Science A&S (RC) (Joint) and of Biomedical Genetics (Joint)

Eric M. Small, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2003
Associate Professor of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, 
of Biomedical Engineering (Joint) and of Pharmacology and Physiology (Joint)

Ralf G. Thiele, M.D.,  Johann Wolfgang Goether University, 1991
Associate Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology

Charles A. Thornton, M.D., University of Iowa, 1981 
Saunders Family Distinguished Professor in Neuromuscular Research
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience