Research Faculty
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Research Interest: Studying the human hematopoietic stem cells and their interaction with their microenvironment
Research Interest: Role of Circadian Rhythm in in gene regulation and cancer cell biology and metabolism.
Research Interest: The treatment and comprehensive care for children with leukemia and lymphoma, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), as well as the care for children with other cancers and blood diseases.
Research Interest: Co-Director of the Rochester Genomics CenterDirector, Wilmot Cancer Institute Shared ResourcesDirector, Functional Genomics Resource
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of cancer stem cell interactions with tumor microenvironment in disease progression
Research Interest: The development of novel therapeutics for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoma.
Research Interest: Malignant stem cell populations in myeloid neoplasms
Research Interest: Population science and community interventions related to the prevention of communicable and chronic diseases.
Research Interest: Therapeutic biomaterials development for tissue engineering and drug delivery with applications ranging from bone regeneration to antioral biofilm treatments
Research Interest: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms that Control Tissue Homeostasis and Somatic Stem Cells
Research Interest: The biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics of signal-transducing transcription factors and their role in development, aging and disease
Research Interest: Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing and polyadenylation in healthy and diseased states; the contribution of RNA processing to cancer biology; effects of small molecule drugs on RNA processing and gene expression.
Research Interest: Cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. Role of Mitochondria and metabolism in ischemic preconditioning and anesthetic preconditioning.
Research Interest: Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy, novel in vivo imaging and measurement techniques, tumor biology, angiogenesis
Research Interest: Activation induced cytidine deaminase (AID) impact on Follicular lymphoma (FL) tumors as a prognostic factor for Diffuse Large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
Research Interest: The development and application of high-end flow cytometric assays to support the research programs of members of the URMC community
Research Interest: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Microenvironmental Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow
Research Interest: The role of plant-based nutrition as a therapy in various diseases
Research Interest: My laboratory studies cancer biology with an emphasis in developmental therapeutics and pancreatic cancer metastasis and dormancy
Research Interest: Newly diagnosed and relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, diffuse large B cell lymphoma ,and peripheral T cell lymphoma
Research Interest: Androgen receptor / Steroid hormones function and pathophysiology in the Prostate
Research Interest: Radiation Oncology
Research Interest: Diffuse optics for in vivo cancer detection, diagnosis and therapy monitoring
Research Interest: Community engagement and participatory research to address disparities in primary prevention using culturally and linguistic sensitive mobile intervention, particularly among under-represented minority (URM) populations
Research Interest: Understanding the toxicological and biochemical properties of nanomaterial interactions with skin and the immune system; develop in vivo models to investigate nanoparticle skin penetration mechanisms, and develop novel biosensors to improve transdermal drug delivery and tissue engineering approaches.
Research Interest: Influenza Viruses; Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development; NeuroAIDS Research
Research Interest: Tissue characterization, inverse problems, breast imaging, elastography, cardiovascular disease, molecular imaging, ultrasound, and MRI
Research Interest: Role of Mitochondria in regulation of cell fate in normal stem cells and cancer cells
Research Interest: Bioorganic chemistry, chemical biology, and biomolecular engineering and evolution
Research Interest: Delineating the role of alveolar epithelium in modulating the pulmonary injury response to physiological and toxicological stimuli, including oxidant induced signaling in the pulmonary epithelium and macrophages, and epithelial production of mediators that regulate inflammatory functions of macrophages.
Research Interest: Symptoms in older adults, Patient-Reported Outcomes, Quality of Life, Geriatric Oncology
Research Interest: Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer and Microbial Infections
Research Interest: Immunity to Tumor Antigens.
Research Interest: Development of novel therapies for patients with lymphoma
Research Interest: Role of inflammatory mediators in bone marrow microenvironmental dysfunction during hematologic malignancies
Research Interest: Cancer control, particularly in the development, implementation, and dissemination of mHealth behavioral interventions to prevent and manage treatment- and cancer-related toxicities in cancer survivors, with a specific focus in cardiovascular complications from cancer treatment
Research Interest: The Gerber lab studies tumor immunology with a focus on harnessing the immune system to recognize and kill cancerous cells utilizing an immunotherapeutic approach to enhance the efficacy of chemo/radiotherapies to control or even cure both primary and metastatic malignancies.
Research Interest: Microbial pathogens and the impact of human microbial flora on human health and disease.
Research Interest: Biological markers of aging, supportivive care interventions, mechanisms of frailty and resilience
Research Interest: Mechanisms of aging and the role of DNA repair and genomic instability in the aging process.
Research Interest: Androgen Effects on Reproduction and Cancer
Research Interest: Understanding the roles of antioxidants in disease
Research Interest: The molecular biology and genetics of pancreatic and biliary tract cancers
Research Interest: Early origins research, linking in utero environment to later life health and educational attainment
Research Interest: Utilization and costs of nursing home residents; Organization and management of nursing homes; Veterans Health Administration Geriatrics and Extended Care Data and Analyses Center; Evaluation of implemented programs; Big Data systems and infrastructure for efficient analyses of health care utilization and costs.
Research Interest: Understanding clinical, psychological, and biological mechanisms of cognitive difficulties in cancer patients
Research Interest: Factors that lead to health disparities among sexual and gender minority populations, specifically disparities in cancer-related health outcomes and psychological distress
Research Interest: Radiogenomics - the study of genetic factors that are associated with increased risk of developing late effects from radiotherapy used in treatment of cancer
Research Interest: Splicing defects in hematologic malignancies; roles of human pre-mRNA splicing factors in HIV-1 infectivity; development of engineered splicing factors for correction of splicing defects; splice sites and their associated proteins as therapeutic targets.
Research Interest: Innate and adaptive immune responses and cancer immunotherapy
Research Interest: To ameliorate the symptoms of cancer and its treatment by leveraging an understanding how the brain processes the state of the body.
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Signaling and Cancer Cell Metabolism
Research Interest: Influence of environmental factors on the development and function of the immune system
Research Interest: Extracellular vesicles (Evs), Exosomes, for their roles in cancer development, progression and response to treatment in Urology cancers.
Research Interest: Effects of oxygen metabolites/chemokines on hematopoietic stem cell expansion and preservation
Research Interest: Translational cancer research and immunotherapy
Research Interest: Geriatric hematology, digital health technologies, behavioral and supportive care interventions, physical function, decision-making in AML, prognostic understanding, communication, end-of-life care
Director, Geriatric Hematology and Mobile Health Research
Director, Geriatric Oncology Research Observership Program
Research Interest: Cell Mediated Immunity to Tumors
Research Interest: Finding hidden groups and their meanings; latent variable modeling; methods and techniques for Bayesian solutions.
Research Interest: Cognition, cognitive interventions, GA and management interventions
Research Interest: RNA metabolism in human cells (nonsense-mediated mRNA decay/mRNA surveillance); influence of pre-mRNA splicing on mRNA translation; Staufen-mediated mRNA decay and Staufen-regulated RNA metabolism; post-transcriptional gene control via lncRNAs and SINEs; miRNA metabolism; Fragile X Mental Retardation Syndrome/Autism; therapeutics of nonsense diseases.
Research Interest: Development of Novel, Clinically Applicable Ultrasound Imaging Techniques
Research Interest: Developing methods to estimate gene regulatory networks from gene perturbation experiments
Research Interest: Cell Motility, and Quantitative light microscopy
Research Interest: Smoking Cessation in special populations, Technology/Web Assisted Risk Behavior Intervention and Dissemination of effective interventions to physician practices
Research Interest: Analysis of gene regulatory networks in cancer; role of immunogenetics in transplant
Research Interest: Understanding how nuclear proteins and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) regulate gene transcription in pancreatic preneoplastic lesions, gaining knowledge of the process of cellular transformation and tumor initiation.
Research Interest: Prostate and Bladder cancer
Research Interest: Understanding the role of cancer stem cells in the progression of brain tumors
Research Interest: Geriatric assessment and management interventions, symptomatic toxicities, tolerability, clinical trial design for older adults with cancer, caregiver research
Research Interest: Ovarian cancer biomarker research for the early detection and management of ovarian cancer
Research Interest: The regulation of cytokine responses of human and mouse T-cell subsets in infections asthma, allergy and autoimmunity
Research Interest: Mechanisms of metabolic network manipulation induced by viral infection and oncogenic mutation.
Research Interest: The genetics, genomics, and chromatin biochemistry of cell state transitions that occur during embryonic development and carcinogenesis.
Research Interest: Neuro stem cell biology and medicine, developing pharmacological and cell based approaches to peripheral and spinal cord injury.
Research Interest: Defining neuro-inflammatory processes that contribute to pathology and disease progression in Alzheimer's disease, as well as late CNS effects following radiation exposure
Research Interest: Biochemical mechanisms of RNA-mediated gene regulation; RNA-targeting CRISPR tool development
Research Interest: Behavioral medicine and outcomes management include tobacco use and smoking interventions, obesity prevention and exercise
Research Interest: Protective and regenerative strategies for salivary gland function and radiation therapies.
Research Interest: Cellular and Molecular events underlying the ontogeny of the hematopoietic system.
Research Interest: The use of nutritional supplementation and exercise to treat the symptoms and side effects of cancer and its related treatment
Research Interest: Genetic mechanisms in acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome with focus on the zinc finger oncoprotein EVI1
Research Interest: Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Research Interest: Redox signaling mechanism of Proinflammatory gene expression in pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory lung diseases caused by environmental toxicants.
Research Interest: Polypharmacy, data science, informatics, implementation science
Research Interest: Experimental platform using the amphibian Xenopus for research in immunotoxicology, fundamental and medical immunology
Research Interest: Urologic malignancies
Research Interest: Chronic illness, Palliative Care, Long-term childhood cancer survivors, Bereavement, Integrative medicine, Biofeedback, Chronic pain, Bioethics
Research Interest: Inflammatory bone loss as seen in rheumatoid arthritis, infections, tumor metastasis and wear debris induced osteolysis around prosthetic implants
Research Interest: Understanding how regulation of RNA Polymerase II activity regulates cellular differentiation, with a focus on erythropoiesis. Delineating epigenetic control of normal erythropoiesis; determining the contribution of disrupted epigenetic regulation to inherited anemias.
Research Interest: Identification of relevant cutting-edge microscopy technologies for implementation at the University of Rochester. Application of quantitative imaging and analysis techniques to a variety of research projects.
Director, Center for Advanced Light Microscopy and Nanoscopy
Research Interest: Multiple roles of virus-specific Band T cells in determining the outcome of viral infection of the respiratory tract. Long term protective effect of immunological mechanisms.
Research Interest: Cancer epigenetics: the role of DNA methylation and chromatin in driving cancer phenotypes and as a target for therapeutic intervention
Research Interest: Discovering the effects of high (therapeutic) and low (environmentally-relevant) doses of radiation and their interactions with other toxic elements, such as commonly encountered infections, and better understanding differential effects of radiation in adults versus children.
Research Interest: Optogenetics to study the roles of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in mitochondrial physiology and stress signaling.
Research Interest: Uncovering the biological mechanisms of radiation-induced skin toxicities
Research Interest: Genetic defects in kidney cancer cells and how these defects cause the disease
Research Interest: Regulation of bone cell function in inflammatory bone loss
Research Interest: NF-kB signaling pathway, Apoptosis signaling pathway, Bone metabolism, and Osteoimmunology.
Research Interest: Role of the estrogen receptor (ER) and androgen receptor (AR) in urological diseases, including prostate cancer, bladder cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and male fertility.
Research Interest: RNA modification; pre-mRNA splicing; snRNP biogenesis; telomerase RNA modification and aging; nonsense-disease therapeutics.
Research Interest: Lymphoid Malignancy Research
Research Interest: Mechanisms of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and leukemia initiating cells (LIC) regulations