Ashok Agarwal, Ph.D. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/urology-kidney/depts/reproductive-medicine Biological markers of oxidative stress; proteomic and bioinformatics in DNA damage, apoptosis and preserving fertility in patients with cancer; laboratory and clinical studies assessing the efficacy of certain antioxidants in improving male fertility |
Suneel Apte, M.B.B.S, Ph.D. https://lerner.ccf.org/biomedical-engineering/apte/ Extracellular matrix; proteolysis; metalloproteinases; ADAMTS proteases; ADAMTS-like proteins; proteomics; morphogenesis; cardiovascular; musculoskeletal; birth defects; fetal-maternal medicine; eye disorders; neural tube; craniofacial development; smooth muscle; post-translational modification; inherited connective tissue disorders; osteoarthritis; primary cilium |
Mark Aronica, M.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/inflammation-immunity/aronica/ Mechanisms by which specific ECM proteins contribute to the onset of asthma |
Kathleen Berkner, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/berkner/ Vitamin K; vitamin K-dependent protein carboxylation; hemostasis; anticoagulation; calcification; vitamin K-dependent clotting factors deficiency (VKCFD); pseudoxanthoma elasticum; warfarin resistance; gamma-glutamyl carboxylase; vitamin K oxidoreductase (VKOR) |
Mark Brown, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/brown/ Lipid metabolism; lipoprotein metabolism; atherosclerosis; obesity; diabetes; reverse cholesterol transport; triacylglycerol; nutrition |
Tatiana Byzova, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/neurosciences/byzova/ Angiogenesis; endothelial cells; integrins; extracellular matrix; cell adhesion; tumor progression; vascular biology; signal transduction in endothelium and platelets; oxidative stress and vasculature; toll-like receptors in angiogenesis |
Donna Driscoll, Ph.D. RNA biology; mRNA translational control; nutritional regulation of gene expression; selenium |
Serpil Erzurum, M.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/inflammation-immunity/erzurum/ Asthma; pulmonary vascular disease; hypoxia; metabolism |
Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/hazen/ Inflammation; atherosclerosis; asthma; myeloperoxidase; cardiovascular diseases; HDL; peroxidases; airway remodeling; intestinal microbiota; gut flora; cardiometabolic disease |
Christopher Hine, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/hine/ Dietary restriction; aging; lifespan extension; stress resistance; exercise; hydrogen sulfide (H2S) production and metabolism; sulfur amino acid metabolism; endocrine signaling and longevity |
Sadashiva Karnik, Ph.D. GPCRs; angiotensin receptors; ARBs; biased signaling; cardiac hypertrophy; hypertension; heart failure; structure-function of GPCRs; transmembrane signaling; microRNA; gene expression; chromatin protein modifications; STAT3 and U-STAT3 signaling; RGS proteins |
Xiaoxia Li, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/inflammation-immunity/li/ Signal transduction in innate and adaptive immunity |
Daniel Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff/3044-daniel-lindner Mechanisms of acquired drug resistance in renal cancer, development of more effective drugs to treat myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myelogenous leukemia |
Thomas McIntyre, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/mcintyre/ Lipid mediators; inflammatory signaling; platelet biology; biochemistry; acute kidney injury |
Richard Padgett, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/padgett/ Transcription; RNA processing; RNA splicing; splicing factors; relation to cancer and developmental diseases; gene structure and function; genomics; evolution of genomes; RNA biochemistry |
Eugene Podrez, M.D., Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/inflammation-immunity/podrez/ Atherosclerosis; thrombosis; atherothrombosis; platelets; macrophage; scavenger receptors; LDL; HDL; cholesterol; phospholipids; oxidative stress; lipid peroxidation |
Jun Qin, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/qin/ Signal transduction; integrin; cell adhesion; cell migration; kinase; heart disease; cancer; structural biology; protein NMR; protein crystallography |
Sujata Rao, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/ophthalmic-research/rao/ Eye; developmental biology; circadian clock; neurovascular development; thyroid hormone signaling; cone photoreceptors; vascular remodeling |
Nima Sharifi, M.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cancer-biology/sharifi/ Prostate cancer; androgens; metabolism; steroids; castration-resistant prostate cancer; androgen receptor; hormone therapy; medical oncology; dihydrotestosterone; enzymes; biochemistry |
Robert Silverman, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cancer-biology/silverman/ Interferon; rnase l; antiviral innate immunity; oncolytic virotherapy, DNA methyltransferase inhibitor |
Jonathan Smith, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/smith/ Atherosclerosis; HDL metabolism; atrial fibrillation; genetics; genomics; eQTL; gene expression; reverse cholesterol transport; dysfunctional HDL; RNAseq; allelic expression imbalance; ABCA1; mouse models; zinc finger nuclease |
George Stark, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cancer-biology/stark/ Interferons; IL-6; NFkB; STAT3; EGFR; drug resistance; DNA repair; lung cancer; breast cancer; prostate cancer; glioblastoma; septic shock |
Dennis Stuehr, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/inflammation-immunity/stuehr/ Inflammation; nitric oxide; heme transport; soluble guanylate cyclase; electron transfer |
Wai Hong Wilson Tang, M.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/cardiovascular-metabolic/tang/ Heart failure; cardiomyopathy; nitrative stress; metabolomics; cardio-renal syndrome |
Bruce Trapp, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/neurosciences/trapp/ Multiple sclerosis; glia; oligodendrocytes; astrocytes; neuroprotection; myelin, autism |
Bin Zhang, Ph.D. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/genomic-medicine/zhang/ Mechanism of intracellular trafficking in human disease development; protein secretion; endoplasmic reticulum stress; hemophilia; alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, cardiovascular diseases; cancer |