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ROCHESTER NATHAN SHOCK FACULTY AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Howard J. Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director
Center for Aging and Developmental Biology
Somatic and germline gene transfer to modify the nervous system

William Bowers, Ph.D., Reseach Associate Professor
Neurology, Center for Aging and Developmental Biology
Development of HSV amplicon-based gene therapy for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

Paul D. Coleman, Ph.D., Professor
Neurobiology & Anatomy,Center for Aging and Developmental Biology
Neurobiology of aging and Alzheimer's disease profiling expressions of multiple messages from single defined neurons in human and animal brains

Christopher Cox, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Study of dose-response models in toxicology, particularly quantal response models for the estimation of thresholds and for mixtures of toxicants

John G. Frelinger, Ph.D., Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
Generation of organ specific immunity using prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a model tumor antigen

David S. Goldfarb, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biology

Role of piecemeal microautophagy of the nucleus in aging

David Kornack, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Neurobiology & Anatomy, Center for Aging and Developmental Biology
Neurogenesis in the developing and adult mammalian brain

Frances Eun-Hyung Lee, M.D., Fellow
Pulmonary and Critical Care
High resolution analysis of RSV specific T cell responses in mild and severe geriatric patients

Mitsunori Ogihara, Ph.D.,Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Computational complexity, knowledge discovery and data-mining, and DNA-based computation.

David Pearce, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biochemistry/Biophysics, Center for Aging and Developmental Biology
Protein turnover, particularly the degradation of mitochondrial proteins in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

David A. Rempe, M.D., Ph.D., Sr. Instructor
Neurology, Center for Aging and Developmental Biology
The role of hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha in adaptive and pathological response to stroke in aged animals

Eric K. Richfield, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Neurodegenerative diseases, tissue banking, molecular diagnosis of tissue samples

David J. Topham, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
T cell immunity against respiratory viruses

Stephen L. Welle, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Medicine
Gene expression and protein metabolism in human muscle

John Werren, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biology
Evolutionary and ecological genetics