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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

Yuriy Alekseyev, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:\u00a0<\/span>Microarrays, Sequencing, Core management, Experimental Design<\/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

Samagya Banskota, PhD<\/span><\/a>
\nSpecialization:\u00a0 <\/span>Genomic editing and delivery systems<\/div>\n

Jennifer Beane, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Lung Cancer<\/div>\n

Samuel Beck, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Gene regulation, biological mechanism of aging, chromatin architecture, transcriptional\/epigenetic regulation<\/div>\n
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Uwe Beffert, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Advancing the understanding of neurological diseases through active genetics and genomics research. Identifying the role of alternative splicing in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and exploring its functional implications on neuronal receptors.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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> Prenatal 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> Chronic 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
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Sofia Casasa, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Evolution of development, insects, nematodes, developmental plasticity, behavioral plasticity, comparative genomics and transcriptomics, functional genetics<\/div>\n
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Jinying Chen, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Method innovation, leveraging natural language processing, machine learning\/deep learning, and biostatistics, for biomedical and health research<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Daniel Cifuentes, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation during vertebrate embryogenesis using zebrafish as a model system<\/div>\n

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

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

Shuaiying Cui, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Understand the basic mechanisms of hemopoiesis and to develop novel therapies for blood disorders and malignancies at genetic and molecular levels.<\/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> \u00a0Molecular 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
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Specialization:<\/span> Ecological genomics, population genetics, molecular ecology, coral ecology, climate change, symbiosis<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/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> Cancer Therapeutics, tumor intravasation, zebrafish, MYC<\/div>\n
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Jessica Fetterman, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Mitochondrial physiology, mitochondrial genetic epidemiology, and cardiovascular disease<\/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

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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> Prion Diseases, Alzheimer’s Disease<\/div>\n
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Tarik Haydar, PhD<\/span><\/a>
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Anthony Hollenberg, MD
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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<\/div>\n
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Lei Hou, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> complexity of biological systems through computational and systems biology approaches<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jonathan Huggins, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Statistical analysis of high-throughput genomic data.<\/div>\n
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Robin Ingalls, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Innate immune system, sexually transmitted infections<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Stefan Isaac, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Focusing on the relationship between mitochondrial DNA packaging and expression and understanding the mechanisms that regulate the activity of this genome.\u00a0<\/span><\/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> Regulatory mechanisms underlying the interactions between the metabolic pathway of protein N-glycosylation and intercellular adhesion in tissue development and disease<\/div>\n
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Vidhya Kumaresan, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/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>\u00a0Biology of aging and understanding the basic mechanisms that underlie the pathogenesis of age-related diseases<\/div>\n

Deborah Lang, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Specialization:<\/span> Molecular and cellular biology of melanocyte stem cells and melanoma<\/div>\n
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Nelson Lau, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Specialization:<\/span> Transposon regulation by small RNAs during aging, RNAi and gene silencing, viral small RNAs and Piwi-interacting RNAs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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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> CLL; Leukemia; Lymphoid malignancies; Sarcoma; Breast cancer; cAMP signaling<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ignaty Leshchiner, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Computational biology and cancer bioinformatics; serving the BUSM Data Science Core<\/a><\/div>\n
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David E. Levin, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Stress signaling and cell wall biogenesis in fungi<\/div>\n

Ching-Ti Liu, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Development of statistical and computational approaches for genetics\/genomics and bioinformatics studies<\/span><\/div>\n

Pinghua Liu, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Chemical basis of pathogen and host interactions, and the chemical nature of the biological clock<\/span><\/div>\n

Mark Logue, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Computational tools to search the human genome for genetic variants influencing risk of psychiatric and neurological disorders<\/span><\/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>\u00a0Chronic kidney disease, kidney and urinary tract development<\/div>\n
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Jennifer Luebke, MD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Functional properties of neurons in the mammalian prefrontal cortex (PFC), which play a central role in higher cognitive abilities such as abstract thinking, problem solving and cognitive flexibility.<\/span><\/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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Shawn Lyons, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Regulation of protein synthesis during acute stress response in cells, in particular how RNA metabolism and ribosome biogenesis are altered in response to stress.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Assen Marintchev, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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> Hematology, stem cell biology, mechanisms of cell differentiation<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sarah Mazzilli, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Molecular events associated with the progression of premalignant squamous lung lesions for targeted chemoprevention<\/div>\n

Kim McCall, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0 Drosophila developmental biology, cell death, oogenesis<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Arturo Mendoza Cisneros, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0 Thyroid hormone signaling, ChREBP transcription factor<\/div>\n

Phillip Mews, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0 Neuroepigenetics, metabolism, and neural plasticity in the adult brain, with an emphasis on substance use disorders.\u00a0<\/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

Sean Mullen, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Focused on addressing fundamental questions about patterns of biodiversity (e.g. \u2013 latitudinal gradients in species richness), and the role that life history evolution plays in driving adaptive diversification at both the larval and adult life-history stage among Neotropical Adelpha butterflies.<\/span><\/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
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Pawel Przytycki, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Computational method development, noncoding variants in neurological development and disease<\/div>\n<\/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> Genomics of Alzheimer’s disease and entorhinal cortex neurons in \u00a0mouse models, human postmortem tissue, novel in vitro culture protocols, and in silico modeling<\/span><\/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> Pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 heterosexual transmission<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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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<\/div>\n

Angie Serrano, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Specialization:<\/span> Neurodevelopment, cardiovascular development in rare multi-systemic disorders<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Andrei Sharov, MD, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Molecular 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

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> Gene expression profiling, lung neoplasms, pulmonary disease, computational biology

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

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Nancy Sullivan, ScD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tuan Leng Tay, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Andy Taylor, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Ocular system of Immune Regulation and Immune suppression (OSIRIS)<\/div>\n

Julia TCW, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Human induced pluripotent stem cells for Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) genetics and in vitro drug screening<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sam Thiagalingam, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span>\u00a0Cancer genetics, epigenetics, signaling pathways, SMAD genes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Adriana Tomic, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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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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Specialization:<\/span> Hippo signaling pathway, YAP\/TAZ, Cell polarity, cancer biology<\/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<\/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
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Andrew Wilson, MD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Alpha-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>\u00a0Synthetic and systems biology in immune cells<\/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


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Joseph Zaia, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Glycomics, glycosaminoglycan expression, bioinformatics, glycosaminoglycans<\/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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ella Zeldich, PhD\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Specialization:<\/span> Reduction 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

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