BioMedical Division Members
| Steven F. Abcouwer, PhD | Diabetic retinopathy; Neurodegeneration; Microglia |
| David A. Antonetti, PhD | Diabetic retinopathy, blood-retinal barrier, tight junctions |
| Peter Arvan MD, PhD | Beta cell survival, insulin synthesis, protein folding |
| Barbara Atshaves, PhD | Lipid metabolism, confocal microscopy, obesity |
| Ruma Banerjee, PhD | Sulfer metabolism, redox biochemistry, glutathione |
| Kate F. Barald PhD | Stem cells (embryonic and adult), hormonal effects on neurogenesis and regeneration, neuropathies |
| Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, MD | Beta cells biology' Islets, Pancreas development |
| Markus Bitzer, MD | Renal injury, microrna, TGF-beta |
| Daniel A. Bochar PhD | Transcription, chromatin, remodeling |
| Peter F. Bodary, PhD | Exercise, Inflammation, Insulin Resistance |
| Michael L. Boehnke PhD | Statistics, genetics, type 2 diabetes |
| Steven Britton MD | Metabolism, exercise, animal models |
| Frank C. Brosius III, MD | Glucose transport, diabetic nephropathy, vascular biology |
| Charles Burant, MD, PhD | Metabolomics, Beta-cell Biology, Systems Biology |
| Julia V. Busik, PhD | Microvascular complications, retinopathy, dyslipidemia |
| Gregory Cartee PhD | Exercise physiology, glucose transport, insulin signaling |
| Christin Carter-Su PhD | GH receptors and actions, JAK/Stat signaling, tyrosine kinase signaling pathways |
| Annette M. Chang MD | Insulin secretion, exercise, aging, beta-cell mass |
| Munmun Chattopadhyay, PhD | Diabetic neuropathy; pain; gene therapy |
| Eugene Chen, MD | PhDPPARgamma, diabetic drug development, Cadiovascular complications associated with diabetes |
| Tae-Hwa Chun MD, PhD | Extracellular matrix, matrix metalloproteinase, obesity |
| Mario Delmar, MD, PhD | Cardiomyopathies, heart disease, intercellular communication |
| Peter Dempsey PhD | Mouse models of beta cell function, survival and regeneration, growth factor signaling, disintegrin-metalloproteases (ADAMs) |
| Robert J. Denver PhD | Neuroendocrinology, thyroid, adrenal |
| Matthew DiMagno MD | Acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic secretion |
| Zora Djuric PhD | Obesity prevention, dietary intervention, biomarkers |
| Cunming Duan PhD | Hormonal control of growth, IGF, hypoxia |
| Vicki L. Ellingrod PharmD | Schizophrenia, diabetes, folate |
| Stephen A. Ernst PhD | Immunocytochemistry, mechanisms involved in pancreatic acinar exocytosis, SNARE protein interactions |
| Eva L. Feldman MD, PhD | Diabetic neuropathy, insulin-like growth factors, neuromuscular diseases |
| Diane C. Fingar, PhD | Insulin signaling, mammalian target of rapamycin, cell growth and proliferation |
| David J. Fink, MD | Peripheral neuropathy, Pain, Gene therapy |
| Thomas W. Gardner, MD | Diabetic retinopathy; Insulin receptor signaling; Retinal cell death |
| Puneet Garg, MD | Molecular biology of Glomerular Slit Diaphragm, Vascular calcification in end stage renal disease, Hypertension |
| Margaret Gnegy PhD | Protein kinase C-beta, dopamine transporter, dopamine neuron |
Adipose tissue, lipolysis, diabetes |
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| Deborah L. Gumucio PhD | Hedgehog signaling, intestinal development, absorptive epithelium |
| Gary D. Hammer MD, PhD | Glucocorticoids and nuclear receptors, adrenal gland development, dysregulated growth of adrenocortical stem/progenitor cells in development and adrenocortical carcinoma |
| John R. Heckenlively, MD | Autoimmune retinal diseases, diabetic edema, cystoid macular edema |
| Todd J Herron, PhD | Cardiac myocytes, calcium, myofilaments |
| Friedhelm Hildebrandt, MD | Gene identification in ciliopathies, cystic kidney disease, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Alstrom syndrome |
Hypothalamus, energy homeostasis, fertility |
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| Israel Hodish, MD, PhD | Beta-cell biology, Insulin therapy, Transgenic mice |
| Lawrence B. Holzman MD | Cell signaling, podocyte, kidney |
| Jeffrey F. Horowitz PhD | Obesity, Exercise, Metabolism |
| Patrick Hu MD, PhD | Insulin signaling, FoxO transcription factors, C. elegans |
| H. David Humes MD | Bioartificial pancreas |
| Jorge A. Iniguez-Lluhi PhD | Transcriptional regulation, steroid hormone receptors, post-translational modification by Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier i.e. SUMO proteins |
| Mayumi Inoue MD, PhD | Insulin signaling, exocyst complex, vesicle trafficking |
| Lori L. Isom PhD | Sodium channel, cell adhesion, neuropathic pain |
| Wenjun Ju, PhD | non-invasive biomarker identification, pathomechanism study of biomarkers |
| Alon Kahana, MD, PhD | Epithelial-mesenchymal transition, Intercellular signaling processes, Neural crest biology |
| Randal J. Kaufman PhD | Protein misfolding, unfolded protein response, endoplasmic reticulum stress |
| Alla Karnovsky, PhD | Systems Biology Bioinformatics, Metabolomics |
| Catherine E. Keegan, MD, PhD | Mouse genetics, Caudal regression, Congenital malformations |
| Robert T. Kennedy, PhD | Insulin secretion, metabolomics, microfluidics |
| Tom K. W. Kerppola PhD | Transcription regulation and chromatin architecture, molecular interactions, live cell imaging |
| Edith C Kieffer, MPH, PhD | Diabetes, Pregnancy, Disparities |
| Bhumsoo Kim PhD | Alzheimer`s Disease, cell signaling, neuroscience |
| Lauren G. Koch PhD | Animal models, aerobic exercise, complex disease |
| Ronald J. Koenig MD, PhD | PAX8-PPARgamma fusion protein, thyroid cancer, thyroid hormone |
| Matthias Kretzler MD | Systems biology, diabetic nephropathy, molecular diagnostics |
| Roland Kwok PhD | Cancer, acetylation, phosphorylation |
Antidiabetic therapies; bone marrow adipocytes; bone metabolic diseases |
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| Menq-Jer Lee, PhD | Sphingolipid, GPCR, Inflammation |
| Todd Leff, PhD | Diabetes, gene expression, nuclear receptor |
| Stephen I. Lentz PhD | Cell imaging, microscopy, diabetic complications |
| Jiandie Lin PhD | Mitochondrial, transcription, lipid |
| David B. Lombard, MD, PhD | Sirtuins; mitochondria; calorie restriction |
| Malcolm J. Low, MD, PhD | Hypothalamic control of energy homeostasis; Neuropeptide gene expression; Neural circuits underlying food reward |
| Carey N. Lumeng MD, PhD | Obesity, inflammation, macrophage, insulin resistance, adipose tissue |
| Peter X. Ma PhD | Biomaterials, regeneration, controlled release |
| Ormond A. MacDougald PhD | Adipogenesis, obesity, metabolism |
| Benjamin L. Margolis MD | Kidney, polarity, cilia |
| Laura R. McCabe, PhD | Type 1 diabetes induced osteoporosis; Osmoadaptation/osmotic stress; Diabetes induced bone marrow changes/adiposity |
| Marcia F. McInerney, PhD | Innate and adaptive immunity in diabetes; inflammation and cytokines in diabetes; mechanisms of cell movement |
| K. M. Jairam Menon, PhD | G protein coupled receptors, steroids, reproductive hormones |
| Ram Menon, MD | Growth hormone - IGF1 axis, Pediatric endocrinology, Clinical diabetes mellitus |
| Thomas Morrow PhD | Animal models of Type 1 diabetes, supraspinal consequences of diabetes mellitus, pain in diabetes mellitus |
| Richard M. Mortensen MD, PhD | Obesity, cardiovascular disease, immune function |
| Henry Mosberg, MD, PhD | Medicinal chemistry, peptides, receptors |
| Geoffrey G Murphy PhD | Learning/memory, aging, ion Channels |
| David C. Musch PhD | Clinical trial design and methods, epidemiology, quality of life assessment |
| Martin G. Myers, Jr. MD, PhD | Leptin, hypothalamus, energy balance |
| Sonia M. Najjar, PhD | Diabetes and endocrine research |
| Richard R. Neubig MD, PhD | G protein, obesity, insulin sensitivity |
| David P. Olson, MD, PhD | Obesity, hypothalamus, diabetes |
| Gilbert S. Omenn MD, PhD | Bioinformatics, proteomics, cancer prevention |
| Yoichi Osawa, PhD | Nitric oxide |
| Vasantha Padmanabhan PhD | Infertility, polycystic ovarian syndrome, ovary |
| Sandeep V. Pandit PhD | Arrhythmia, cardiac electrophysiology |
Narayanan Parameswaran, PhD |
Inflammation; cell signaling; toll-like receptors |
Obesity; neuropeptides; hypothalamus |
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| Subramaniam Pennathur MD | Oxidative stress, mass spectrometry, proteomics, systems biology, diabetic complications |
| Sem H. Phan MD, PhD | Tissue injury, repair/remodeling/fibrosis, inflammation |
| Massimo Pietropaolo, MD | Autoimmune pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes, Biomarkers of auutoimmune diabetes, Genetics of Type 1 diabetes |
| Scott Pletcher, PhD | Drosophila melanogaster; diet; obesity; aging |
| Rodica Pop-Busui | Type 1 and type 2 diabetes; diabetes complications, diabetic neuropathy |
| Donald G. Puro MD, PhD | Diabetic retinopathy, cell physiology |
| Malini Raghavan, PhD | autoimmunity, antigen presentation, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress) |
| Gavin E. Reid, PhD | Mass spectrometry, proteomics, lipidomics |
| Diane M. Robins PhD | Androgen receptor, liver gene regulation, sex-specific gene expression |
| Liangyou Rui PhD | Diabetes, obesity, leptin and insulin signaling |
| Alan R. Saltiel, PhD | Insulin action; glucose transport; obesity |
| Linda C. Samuelson PhD | Gastric acid secretion, parietal cell biology, gastric cancer, intestinal differentiation |
| Edwin R. Sanchez, PhD | Diabetes and endocrine research |
| M. Dolors Sans Gili, PhD | Exocrine pancreas, physiology, protein synthesis |
| Leslie S. Satin PhD | Pancreatic islets and islet beta cells, insulin secretion oscillations |
| Jessica Schwartz PhD | Growth hormone action, regulation of gene transcription, signal transduction |
| Audrey F. Seasholtz PhD | Stress biology and corticosteroid receptors, neuroendocrinology of stress, corticotropin-releasing hormone receptors and binding protein |
| Yatrik M. Shah, PhD | Hypoxia; Steatosis; Fibrosis |
| Assia Shisheva, PhD | Mouse models of insulin resistance, Insulin responsiveness in target cells and tissues, Mouse models for metabolic syndrome |
| Roni M. Shtein, MD | In vivo cornea confocal microscopy |
| Yolanda R. Smith MD | Menopause, cognition, estrogen, polycystic ovary syndrome |
| MaryFran R. Sowers PhD | Epidemiology, neurological decline with aging, obesity and its impact on carbohydrate metabolism |
| Edward L. Stuenkel PhD | Beta cell, insulin secretion, exocytosis |
| George W. Taylor DMD, DrPH | Epidemiology, periodontal disease, clinical research |
| John J. G. Tesmer, PhD | Structural studies of heterotrimeric G protein signaling, Macromolecular crystallography, Molecular pharmacology |
| Robert C. Thompson PhD | MicroRNA, stress, feeding |
| Raymond C. Trievel PhD | Chromatin modification, transcriptional regulation, enzyme structure and function |
| Cynthia Tsui, MD, PhD | Diabetic nephropathy, Podocyte biology, Growth factor signaling |
| Michael D. Uhler PhD | Protein phosphorylation, cyclic nucleotides, neuronal function |
| Anjel Vahratian PhD, MPH | Obesity, lipid metabolism, women |
| Anne B. Vojtek PhD | Signaling, cell growth, neural differentiation |
| Lois S. Weisman, PhD | Diabetes; phosphatidylinositol 3,5 bis phosphate; endosomes |
| Stephen J. Weiss MD | Adipocytes, adipose tissue, extracellular matrix |
| Margaret V. Westfall PhD | Sarcomere, signaling, heart failure |
| John A. Williams MD, PhD | Exocrine pancreas, diabetes, cell signaling |
| Zhaohui Xu PhD | Structural biology, unfolded protein response, membrane trafficking |
| Zhengping Yi, PhD | Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, Mass spectrometry and proteomics, Signal transduction, Protein phosphorylation, Protein-protein interaction |
| Lei Yin, MD, PhD | Circadian rhythm; metabolism, ubiquitination |
| Xiaochun Yu, MD, PhD | Epigenetics, chromatin remodeling, gene transcription |
| Kezhong Zhang, PhD | Lipid metabolism; ER stress, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease |
