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Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D. (Environmental Medicine) – Behavioral effects of environmental toxins
Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D. (Microbiology and Immunology) – Host adaptation by emerging influenza viruses; HIV vaccine development; development of therapies for neuron-AIDS
Robert Dirksen, Ph.D. (Pharmacology & Physiology) – Structural biology of the functional properties of muscle calcium channels; pathophysiology of muscle calcium channels
Susan Fisher, Ph.D. (Community and Preventive Medicine) – Cancer epidemiology; cancer risk factor and survival analysis
Steve Georas, M.D. (Medicine) – Mechanisms of dendritic cell and T cell activation in allergic diseases; defining molecular pathways by which allergens and particulate matter activate dendritic cells and influences allergen-specific immunity
Francis Gigliotti, M.D. (Pediatrics) – Immunopathogenesis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; understanding the surface structure of Pneumocystis carinii and its role in host-parasite interactions
Robert Holloway, M.D., M.P.H. (Neurology) – Healthcare services delivery and reimbursement; medical and societal care for the patient with chronic neurological disease
Karl Kieburtz, M.D., M.P.H. (Neurology) – Clinical trials methodology for novel experimental therapeutic strategies; clinical testing of therapeutic strategies for movement disorders
Baek Kim, Ph.D. (Microbiology and Immunology) – HIV-1 replication, evolution, macrophage infectivity and brain reservoirs; structure and function of avian influenza virus RNA polymerase
Michael McDermott, Ph.D. (Biostatistics and Computational Biology) – order-restricted inference for developing novel approaches to hypothesis-testing problems involving order-constrained parameters; dose-response studies and clinical trials with multiple endpoints
Katia Noyes, Ph.D. (Community and Preventive Medicine) – Cost-effectiveness studies in medicine and health; health services utilization in geriatric illness; quality of life assessment, medical decision-making, and analysis of clinical trials
David Oakes, Ph.D. (Biostatistics and Computational Biology) – Clinical trial design; design and analysis studies of potential disease-modifying treatments
M. Kerry O’Banion, M.D., Ph.D. (Neurobiology & Anatomy) – Role of inflammation in neurodegenerative disease; prostaglandin metabolism in the central nervous system
Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D. (Neurobiology & Anatomy) – Integration and processing of multisensory information in the nervous system to maintain and respond to spatial orientation
Thomas Pearson, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. (Community and Preventive Medicine) – development, implementation, and assessment of guidelines in preventive cardiology; clinical trials of dietary and drug interventions in lipid disorders; international trends in cardiovascular disease and stroke
Randy Rosier, M.D., Ph.D. (Orthopaedics) – signal transduction and regulation of differentiation of normal and neoplastic bone cells
Ignacio Sanz, M.D. (Medicine) – human B-cell tolerance in autoimmune disorders; B-cell development; design of novel therapeutic strategies for autoimmune disorders
Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D. (Pediatrics) – signal transduction in and design of novel therapeutic approaches to neural crest tumors; neurotrophin signaling in nervous system cancer and degenerative diseases
Edward Schwarz, Ph.D. (Orthopaedics) – NFkB signal transduction and regulation of cellular response in innate and acquired immunity in joint and bone diseases
Shey-Shing Sheu, Ph.D. (Pharmacology & Physiology) – Mitochondrial biochemistry and function in cardiac muscle; mitochondrial glutathione handling in muscle and spinal cord
Sally Thurston, Ph.D. (Biostatistics and Computational Biology) – Modeling multiple outcomes, correction for measurement error bias, exposure assessment; modeling multiple correlated environmental exposures; using biomarkers to improve cancer risk estimates
John Treanor, M.D. (Medicine) – Vaccine development for viral disease; molecular immunology of influenza virus
Dongwen Wang, Ph.D. (Biostatistics and Computational Biology) – Using informatics approach to facilitate the translation of biomedical research into clinical practice; management of biomedical data and knowledge within the context of clinical workflow; delivery of behavioral interventions to clinicians and patients through information technology to improve healthcare processes and outcomes
Stephen Welle, Ph.D. (Medicine) – Regulation of muscle protein metabolism and gene expression, and how these are affected by aging and by endogenous growth factors
David Yule, Ph.D. (Pharmacology & Physiology) – Understanding the mechanisms that underlie calcium signaling in pancreatic acinar cells and its role in the physiology and pathophysiology of exocrine cells in general
