Translational Research – Disease Models and Mechanisms
Select a specialty below for links to researchers in these areas.
Cardiovascular System
Shane Cunha – Membrane domains, ankyrins, cardiomyocyte function
Carmen Dessauer – cAMP signaling, cardiac function, pain
Holger Eltzschig – Hypoxia, inflammation, acute tissue injury
Yi-Ping Li – Skeletal and cardiac muscle stress adaptation
Yang Liu – Energy metabolism, heart, skeletal muscle
Ali Marian – Cardiovascular disease, cardiomyopathies
Dianna Milewicz – Medical genetics, cardiovascular diseases
Vihang Narkar – Angiogenesis, peripheral artery disease
Jun Wang – Cranial facial and cardiac development
Liver and Digestive Diseases
Holger Eltzschig – Hypoxia, inflammation, acute tissue injury
Cynthia Ju – Liver disease, innate immune system
Kangho Kim – Liver disease, obesity, diabetes, hepatokines
Kyle Poulsen – Liver fibrosis, hepatic chemokines
Jiaqian Wu – Spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative diseases
Pulmonary Disease
Holger Eltzschig – Hypoxia, inflammation, acute tissue injury
Joseph Alcorn – Pulmonary surfactant proteins, respiratory distress syndrome
Harry Karmouty-Quintana – Chronic lung diseases
Tingting Mills – Chronic lung disease, acute lung injury, fetal lung development
Rick Wetsel – Inflammation, lung disease, complement system
Renal Disorders
Peter Doris – Cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, immune function
Holger Eltzschig – Hypoxia, inflammation, acute tissue injury
Rachel Miller – Congenital abnormalities, kidney and urinary tract
Oleh Pochynyuk – Renal sodium reabsorption, hypertension
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Yi-Ping Li – Skeletal and cardiac muscle stress adaptation
Yang Liu – Energy metabolism, heart, skeletal muscle
Vihang Narkar – Angiogenesis, peripheral artery disease
Irina Serysheva – Calcium signaling, ion channels, cryo-EM/ET
Seung-Hee Yoo – Chronobiology, disease, cluster headache
Valeria Vasquez – Mechanosensitive ion channels, dietary lipids
Julio Cordero-Morales – Sensory receptors, ion channels, behavior
Rebecca Berdeaux – Muscle metabolism and growth, diabetes
Congenital Abnormalities
Yoshihiro Komatsu – Craniofacial defects, skull development
Jacqueline Hecht – Pseudoachondroplasia, cranial facial disorders
Jun Wang – Cranial facial and cardiac development
Metabolic Disease, Diabetes and Obesity
Yu An – Obesity, diabetes, metabolism, mitochondria
Zheng Chen – Chronobiology and medicine, aging
Mikhail Kolonin – Obesity, diabetes, muscle degeneration, cancer
Kristin Eckel Mahan – Circadian rhythm in health and disease
Vihang Narkar – Angiogenesis, peripheral artery disease
Qingchun Tong – Neurocircuits, feeding behavior, metabolism, obesity
Kai Sun – Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer
Hongyuan Yang – Lipid droplets, lipid sorting, trafficking and storage
Rebecca Berdeaux – Muscle metabolism and growth, diabetes
Immunology, Autoimmunity, Immunotherapy, and Lymphopoiesis
Shervin Assassi – Scleroderma, preclinical and translational
Askar Akimzhanov – Calcium regulation, S-acylation, T-cell signaling
Zhiqiang An – Antibody therapy for cancer and other diseases
Danielle Garsin – Innate immune response, ethanolamine utilization
Xin Ge – Antibodies therapy, diabetic neuropathy
Anne-Marie Krachler – Bacteria virulence mechanisms, drug resistance
Wenliang Li – Prostate cancer, small cell lung carcinoma
Michael Lorenz – Fungal infections, innate immune system
Maureen Mayes – Rheumatology, scleroderma
Nami McCarty – Multiple myeloma, osteoblastic niche
Tingting Mills – Lung disease, lung injury, fetal lung development
Eva Sevick-Muraca – in vivo imaging, near infrared fluorescence
John Reveille – Rheumatology, lupus, spondyloarthritis
Kyoji Tsuchikama – Antibody drug conjugates, cancer chemotherapy
Pamela Wenzel – Fluid flow, biomechanical force, cell fate
Jiaqian Wu – Spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative diseases
Ningyan Zhang – Immune modulation, cancer therapy
Xiaotian Zhang – Genome organization, leukemia, cell condensates
Lymphatic System
Melissa Aldrich – Aymphedema, immune factors
Eva Sevick-Muraca – in vivo imaging, near infrared fluorescence