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Ruslan Afasizhev,\u00a0 PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:\u00a0<\/span>Molecular mechanisms of RNA processing<\/div>\n

Inna Afasizheva, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:\u00a0<\/span>Mitochondrial gene expression, RNA editing, molecular biology<\/div>\n
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Christopher Andry, MPhil, <\/span>PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Evidence-based protocols and standards in the field of biospecimen science.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Manish Bais, DVM, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:\u00a0<\/span>Orthotropic nude mouse models of non-metastatic and metastatic tongue cancer<\/div>\n

Jennifer Beane, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Lung Cancer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nSamuel Beck, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Specialization:<\/span> Gene regulation, biological mechanism of aging, chromatin architecture, transcriptional\/epigenetic regulation<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kimberly Bertrand, ScD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Epidemiology of breast cancer<\/div>\n
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Micheal Blower, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Mitosis, transcription, chromatin structure<\/span><\/div>\n

Jan Blusztajn, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Prenatal programming of brain development and aging by essential nutrient availability during gestation<\/div>\n

Markus Bosmann, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Pulmonary disorders and their connections to innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions, and inflammation<\/div>\n
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Vladamir Botcharev, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Molecular mechanisms of hair growth and pathobiology of different forms of hair loss<\/span><\/div>\n
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Cynthia Bradham, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Developmental biology; embryonic pattern formation; systems biology<\/span><\/div>\n

Daniel Brooks, DSc<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Chronic kidney disease of undetermined etiology, increasing cessation among low-income smokers<\/div>\n

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Josh Campbell, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Computational biology and bioinformatics, identifying early drivers of lung cancer, therapeutic development and pathogenesis of COPD<\/div>\n

Sofia Casasa, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:\u00a0<\/span>Evolution of development, insects, nematodes, developmental plasticity, behavioral plasticity, comparative genomics and transcriptomics, functional genetics<\/div>\n

Jinying Chen, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> M<\/span>ethod innovation, leveraging natural language processing, machine learning\/deep learning, and biostatistics, for biomedical and health research<\/span><\/div>\n

Daniel Cifuentes, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation during vertebrate embryogenesis using zebrafish as a model system<\/div>\n
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Thomas Clarke, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization: <\/span>DNA damage repair, histone modifications, genome stability in human cancer, and human developmental syndromes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

John Connor, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Virus-host interaction<\/div>\n

Catherine Costello, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Determining the structures and functions of biologically important polymers<\/div>\n

Robin Cotton, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0DNA identification and analysis of biological evidence<\/div>\n

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Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Foundational and clinical genetics and genomics, graduate education, medical education, anti-racism, and equity & inclusion<\/div>\n

Robert Davey, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Molecular biology and cell biology techniques for the study of pathogenic viruses<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sarah Davies, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Ecological genomics, population genetics, molecular ecology, coral ecology, climate change, symbiosis
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Serkalem Demissie, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Application, evaluation, and development of statistical methods for genetic, genomic and epidemiologic studies, including methods for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and meta-analysis; methods for survival, correlated, and multivariate data; and modeling and clustering of temporal gene expression data<\/div>\n

Gerald Denis, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0BET bromodomains proteins, breast cancer, metabolic disease<\/div>\n

Anita L. DeStefano, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Statistical genetics<\/div>\n

Maria Isabel Dominguez, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulated by Wnt\/\u00df-catenin signaling during embryonic organ morphogenesis, molecular mechanism leading to activation (stabilization and nuclear translocation) of \u00df-catenin<\/div>\n

Flourian Douam, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Investigates how the human immune system as a tissue interacts with specific viral pathogens and ultimately regulates different outcome of infection<\/span><\/div>\n

Ruben Dries, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Combines computational data analysis with novel experimental approaches and technologies to understand basic biological concepts in health and disease<\/span><\/div>\n

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Stephen Farmer, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Fat cell differentiation<\/div>\n

Lindsay Farrer, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Age-related macular degeneration, Alzheimer disease, gene mapping, genetic epidemiology, illicit drug dependence<\/div>\n

Rachel Fearns, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> paramyxovirus genome transcription and replication mechanisms<\/span><\/div>\n

Hui Feng, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cancer Therapeutics, tumor intravasation, zebrafish, MYC<\/div>\n
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Jessica Fetterman, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> M<\/span>itochondrial physiology, mitochondrial genetic epidemiology, and cardiovascular disease<\/span><\/div>\n
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John Finnerty, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Evolution of development, developmental genetics, phylogenetics, evolutionary genomics, invertebrate zoology; coral conservation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Shannon Fisher, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Skeletal dysplasias in zebrafish<\/div>\n

Ana Fiszbein, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Gene regulation;RNA processing; systems biology of co-transcriptional programs; computational genomics; role of gene architecture in cancer development and therapy<\/span><\/div>\n

Rachel Flynn, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Mechanisms regulating mammalian telomere maintenance and to understand how defects in this process contribute to premature aging and cancer progression<\/div>\n

Horacio Frydman, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Host-microbe interactions at the molecular, cellular and organismal level; mechanisms of bacterial transmission through stem-cell niche infection<\/span><\/div>\n

Juan Fuxman Bass, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Mechanisms controlling the expression of immune genes<\/div>\n

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Christopher V. Gabel, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Femtosecond laser ablation, neuronal damage, neuronal regeneration, C. elegans<\/div>\n

James E. Galagan, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Computational biology, infectious diseases, mycobacterium<\/div>\n

Neil Ganem, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0High-resolution microscopy, genome-wide RNAi screening, cell biology, and bioinformatics, genome instability in human cancer<\/div>\n

Mikel Garcia-Marcos, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Heterotrimeric G proteins, cytoplasmic factors that mimic the action of GPCRs<\/div>\n
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Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Personalized therapy for AATDassociated liver disease via IPS modeling<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mark Grinstaff, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Biomaterials, drug delivery, macromolecular chemistry and engineering, nanodevices, tissue engineering<\/div>\n

Alla Grishok, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0New mechanisms of gene regulation by short RNAs and chromatin-modifying complexes, C. elegans<\/div>\n
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Suryaram Gummuluru, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Dendritic cells (DCs) in the initiation and propagation of HIV-1 replication<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Elliot Hagedorn, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Regulation of mammalian cell growth and cell cycle<\/div>\n

David A. Harris, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Prion Diseases, Alzheimer’s Disease<\/div>\n

Andrew Henderson, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cellular mechanisms that regulate HIV replication and transcription<\/div>\n

Christopher Heaphy, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization: <\/span>Telomere alterations across a range of cancer types (e.g. prostate, breast, brain, pancreatic, ovarian)<\/span><\/div>\n

Anthony Hollenberg, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>Thyroid gland development, thyroid hormone signaling and sensitivity<\/div>\n

Bertrand “Russ” Huber, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> \u00a0The relationship between neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases, with a primary focus on the blood-brain barrier and neuroinflammation<\/span><\/div>\n

Jonathan Huggins, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Large-scale leanring, Bayesian inference, robust inference<\/div>\n
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Robin Ingalls, MD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Innate immune system, sexually transmitted infections,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Matthew R. Jones, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cytokines, pneumonia, posttranscription<\/div>\n

Gyungah Jun, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Bioinformatics, computational biology, epidemiology, genetics, neurology, ophthalmology, statistics<\/div>\n

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Konstantin Kandror, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Insulin action; Adipocyte biology; Membrane traffic<\/span><\/div>\n

Darrell Kotton, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Stem cell biology, iPS cells, reprogramming, gene therapy, lung developmental biology<\/div>\n

Igor Kramnik, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Tuberculosis<\/div>\n

Maria Kukuruzinska, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Regulatory mechanisms underlying the interactions between the metabolic pathway of protein N-glycosylation and intercellular adhesion in tissue development and disease<\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Tuberculosis<\/div>\n

Vidhya Kumaresan<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:\u00a0<\/span>Maladaptive neural plasticity in addictive processes and brain disorders<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Adam Labadorf, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Genomics characteristics of neurodegeneration in human tissue using bioinformatics and machine learning approaches<\/span><\/div>\n

Vyacheslav Labunskyy, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Biology of aging and understanding the basic mechanisms that underlie the pathogenesis of age-related diseases<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Deborah Lang, PhD<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Molecular and cellular biology of melanocyte stem cells and melanoma<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Nelson Lau, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0PIWI Subfamily of Argonaute Proteins, Piwi-interacting RNA<\/div>\n

Matthew Layne, PhD <\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Uncovering the role of the genetic mutations in the extracellular matrix protein ACLP\/AEBP1 in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and connective tissue diseases.<\/div>\n

Marc Lenburg, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Computational approaches to leverage genome-wide datasets (especially genome-wide gene-expression) for clinical and biological insight<\/div>\n

Adam Lerner, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0CLL; Leukemia; Lymphoid malignancies; Sarcoma; Breast cancer; cAMP signaling<\/div>\n

Ignaty Leshchiner, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:\u00a0<\/span>Computational biology and cancer bioinformatics; serving the BUSM Data Science Core<\/a><\/div>\n

David E. Levin, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Stress signaling and cell wall biogenesis in fungi<\/div>\n

Ching-Ti Liu, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Development of statistical and computational approaches for genetics\/genomics and bioinformatics studies<\/div>\n
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Pinghua Liu, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Chemical basis of pathogen and host interactions, and the chemical nature of the biological clock<\/div>\n

Mark Logue, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Psychiatric and neurological disorders including panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/div>\n

Laura Lowery, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> How cytoskeletal dynamics are regulated to drive cell motility in both normal and pathological conditions<\/span><\/div>\n

Weining Lu, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0 Chronic kidney disease, kidney and urinary tract development<\/div>\n

Kathryn L Lunetta, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Statistical problems and study design and analysis issues in human genetics, particularly in the mapping of complex genetic diseases<\/div>\n

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Assen Marintchev, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Specialization:<\/span> Regulation of protein synthesis and the Integrated Stress Response (ISR)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Shinobu Matsuura, DVM PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0 Hematology, stem cell biology, mechanism of cell differentiation<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nArturo Mendoza Cisneros, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span><\/span> Thyroid hormone signaling, ChREBP transcription factor<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sarah Mazzilli, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0 Molecular events associated with the progression of premalignant squamous lung lesions for targeted chemoprevention<\/span><\/div>\n

Kim McCall, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0 Drosophila developmental biology, cell death, oogenesis<\/span><\/div>\n

Joseph Mizgerd, ScD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Immunology in the lung and its influence on acute lower respiratory tract infections<\/div>\n

Stefano Monti, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Development of machine learning and knowledge discovery methodologies, probabilistic reasoning and Bayesian approaches to modeling biomedical data<\/div>\n

Gareth Morgan, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Molecular mechanisms of AL amyloidosis with the aim of developing new treatments for this disease<\/div>\n

Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Stem cells, gene transfer, lentiviruses, hematopoietic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells<\/div>\n

Elke Muhlberger, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Molecular biology of Marburg and Ebola viruses and other highly pathogenic viruses,\u00a0 BSL4 work, virus-host interaction<\/div>\n
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George Murphy, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Developmental hematopoiesis;\u00a0\u00a0The generation, culture, and directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells;\u00a0\u00a0The generation, culture, and directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells; Pluripotent stem cell-based modeling of hematopoiesis: a Platform for Production of Transfusable Human Blood Cells;\u00a0Pluripotent Stem Cell Modeling of Human Disease: The \u2018Clinical Trial in a Test Tube\u2019: Sickle Cell Anemia; Amyloidosis<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Francisco Naya, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Cardiac development and disease, muscle regeneration, muscular dystrophy, mouse developmental biology, gene regulation<\/span><\/div>\n

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Julie Palmer, ScD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cancer epidemiology, health disparities, breast cancer subtypes<\/div>\n

Gina Peloso, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Statistical genetics, complex cardiovascular traits, exome and whole genome<\/div>\n

Valentina Perissi, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Transcriptional and non-transcriptional functions of various cofactors with a particular focus on their misregulation during disease states such as cancer, diabetes and other inflammatory disorders<\/div>\n

Pawel Przytycki, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Computational method development, noncoding variants in neurological development and disease<\/div>\n
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Nader Rahimi, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cell signaling in particular in receptor tyrosine kinases, protein modification; Mouse and cell culture-based angiogenesis and tumor models<\/div>\n

Katya Ravid, DSc<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Mechanisms that regulate lineage commitment and the subsequent steps of cellular maturation of bone marrow cells into polyploid megakaryocytes<\/div>\n

Daniel Remick, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Immunobiology of Trauma<\/div>\n
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Ian Rifkin, MD, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Immunology; Autoimmunity; Systemic lupus erythematosus; and Nephrology<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Jean-Pierre Roussarie, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Alzheimer’s genomics<\/div>\n

Nelson Ruiz-Opazo, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>Molecular biology and genetics, hypertension, learning and memory<\/div>\n

Shelley J. Russek, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Dysregulated Plasticity of the Nervous System<\/div>\n

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Mohsan Saeed, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Virology; Identifying and characterizing host proteins that are cleaved by viral proteases<\/div>\n

Manish Sagar, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 heterosexual transmission<\/div>\n

Christopher Schmitt, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Incorporates techniques from behavioral ecology, morphometrics, and genomics across the Order Primates and in vervet monkeys (<\/span>Chlorocebus<\/em>\u00a0spp.)<\/span><\/div>\n

Barbara M. Schreiber, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Role of inflammation on aortic smooth muscle cell function<\/div>\n

Daniel Segre, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Systems biology, evolution of biochemical networks, genomics, metabolic engineering,\u00a0microbial ecology<\/div>\n

Angie Serrano, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Neurodevelopment, cardiovascular development in rare multi-systemic disorders<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Andrei Sharov, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0molecular mechanisms of skin development, with particular emphasis on the regulation and maintenance of adult stem cells in the skin; Dissecting the signal transduction pathways which regulate stem cell quiescence to better understand how alterations in these signaling pathways contribute to melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers; Studies a role of higher-order chromatin organization in the process of pigmentation<\/span><\/div>\n

David Sherr, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0How common environmental pollutants adversely affect the growth and behavior of several different types of normal and malignant cells<\/div>\n

Richard Sherva, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Design and analysis of genetic association studies of complex disease<\/div>\n
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Trevor Siggers, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> systems biology of the immune and inflammatory systems, gene regulation in immune and inflammatory systems, inflammatory diseases, transcriptional networks, DNA-binding of transcription factors and transcriptional regulatory complexes, computational genomics, cis-regulatory logic in transcription<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Jennifer Snyder-Cappione, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Regulation of IFN-gamma and cytotoxic effector functions by CD8+ T cells<\/div>\n

Katrina Steiling, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Gene expression profiling, lung neoplasms, pulmonary disease, computational biology<\/div>\n

Lynette Strickland, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Evolutionary genetics, ecological genetics and genomics, biodiversity genomics, beetles<\/span><\/div>\n

Nancy Sullivan, ScD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Ebola, Marburg, and other hemorrhagic fever viruses<\/span><\/div>\n
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Specialization:<\/span><\/span> Fate, heterogeneity, and single-cell analyses of microglia and astrocytes in neurodegeneration, traumatic brain injury, and brain tissue repair; neuroimmunology,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 neurodevelopment<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nJulia TCW, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span><\/span> Human induced pluripotent stem cells for Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) genetics and in vitro drug screening<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sam Thiagalingam, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cancer genetics, epigenetics, signaling pathways, SMAD genes<\/div>\n
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\nAdriana Tomic, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Specialization:<\/span><\/span> protective immunity, systems-level analysis, systems immunology, AI<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Vickery E. Trinkaus-Randall, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Wound response and repair of epithelium, neurons and extracellular matrix<\/div>\n

Maria Trojanowska, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate ECM synthesis in healthy tissues and in pathological conditions such as fibrosis and tumorigenesis<\/div>\n

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Xaralabos Varelas, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Hippo signaling pathway, YAP\/TAZ, Cell polarity, cancer biology<\/div>\n
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Greg Viglianti, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Specialization:<\/span><\/span> Co-factors that influence the mucosal transmission of HIV-1; the role of endogenous nucleic acid autoantigens as mediators of systemic lupus erythematosus<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Michael Wallace, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Electrophysiology, calcium imaging, single-cell sequencing, basal ganglia circuitry and motivated behavior<\/div>\n

Catharine Wang, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Public health genomics, health communication\/e-health, health literacy, and cancer prevention and control<\/div>\n

David Waxman, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Molecular endocrinology and cell signaling; Cancer gene therapy and pharmacology; Liver genes and transcriptional control; Orphan receptors and responses to foreign chemicals<\/div>\n

Andrew Wilson, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, COPD pathogenesis, gene therapy, pluripotent stem cells<\/div>\n

Benjamin L. Wolozin, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer\u2019s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/div>\n

Wilson Wong, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Synthetic and systems biology in immune cell<\/div>\n

Zeba Wunderlich, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Pair imaging-based and genomic measurements of gene expression with statistical and physically based computational models to explore questions of gene regulatory network function in Drosophila<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Venetia Zachariou, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Signal transduction and epigenetic mechanisms underlying CNS disorders.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ella Zeldich, PhD\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> \u00a0Reduction of the accumulation of neurotoxic amyloid beta (Abeta). Alzheimer\u2019s disease and aging, neuroprotection, and klotho transcriptional regulation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Chao Zhang, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Stem cell and genomics; serving the BUSM Data Science Core<\/a><\/div>\n
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Huiping Zhang, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Genetic and epigenetic studies of substance use disorders (SUDs) and related psychiatric disorders and traits<\/div>\n
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Xiaoling Zhang, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Biomedical Genetics; genetic risk factors of complex human diseases and identifying underlying functional mechanisms.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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