Molecular Medicine Specialization || Faculty & Research Area

Faculty & Research Area

Doctoral programs:
Bio: Regulatory Biology
Chem: Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry
ABE: Applied Biomedical Engineering

Name	Research Area
Alex Almasan, Ph.D.[Bio/Chem]] Cancer Biology, CC	Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Cycle Control and Cell Death following Genotoxic Stress.
David Anderson, Ph.D. [Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	HPLC and Mass spectrometry Studies of Fibrinogen and Fibrinogen Degradation Products.
Sipra Banerjee, Ph.D. [Chem] Cancer Biology, CC	Molecular Mechanisms in Initiation and Development of Human Cancer.
Mekki Bayachou, Ph.D. [Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Conformation, Orientation and Electrochemical Mechanisms of Immobilized Metalloproteins
Joanne Belovich, Ph.D. [ABE] Applied Biomedical Engineering, CSU	Bioreactor Design, Modeling of Transport and Kinetics in a Bioartificial Pancreas.
Valentin Boerner, Ph.D.[Bio] Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, CSU	Functional relationship between chromosome organization on the microscopic level and DNA transitions on the molecular level
Martha Cathcart, Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Molecular Mechanisms of Human Monocyte Activation, Migration and Lipid Oxidation.
George Chatzimavrondis, Ph.D.[ABE] Applied Biomedical Engineering, CSU	Cardiovascular Mechanics, Development of MRI and Doppler Ultrasound Techniques for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis.
Guy Chisolm, Ph.D.[Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Lipoprotein-cell Interactions, Lipoprotein Oxidation and Vascular Diseases.
Paul DiCorleto, Ph.D.[Bio/Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Regulation of Endothelial Cell Gene Expression.
Karthy Derwin , Ph.D. [ABE] Applied Biomedical Engineering, CC	P
Donna Driscoll, Ph.D. [Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Posttranscriptional Regulation of Gene expression.
Stan Duraj, Ph.D.[Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Bioinorganic Chemistry of Vitamin B-12.
Paul Fox, Ph.D.[Bio/Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Influence of Pro-inflammatory Molecules in Atherosclerosis and Anemia.
Valentin Gogonea, Ph.D. [Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Computational Modeling and Molecular Dynamics of Biological and Chemical Systems
Baochuan Guo, Ph.D.[Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Mass Spectroscopic Studies in Clinical Diagnosis of Diseases.
Sandra Halliburton, Ph.D.[ABE] Biomedical Engineering, CC	CT and MRI Imaging, Coronary Artery Visualization, Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization.
Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Leukocyte Peroxidases, Free Radicals and reactive Oxygen Species, Oxidative Damage of Biomolecules in Disease.
Nolan Holland, Ph.D.[ABE] Applied Biomedical Engineering, CSU	Biomaterials, Cold-Temperature Cell Storage
Donald Jacobsen, Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Homocysteine: Vascular Biochemistry, Metabolism and Role in Atherogenesis.
Michael Kalafatis, Ph.D. [Chem/Bio] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Study of Factor Va for the activation of Prothrombin.
Sadashiva Karnik, Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Molecular Cardiology, CC	Molecular Cardiology: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Involved in Blood Pressure Regulation
Miron Kaufman, Ph.D. Physics, CSU	Alzhemier's Disease and Entropy levels in Information processing.
Michael Kinter, Ph.D. [Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Mass Spectrometry Characterization of Anti-Oxidant Defense Mechanisms, Sites of Oxidant Protein Damage
Bibo Li , Ph.D.[Bio] Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, CSU	molecular biology: telomere functions; pathogenesis of Trypanosoma brucei in relation to telomere function and regulation of surface antigen switching
John Masnovi, Ph.D.[Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Characterization and Reactivities of Cytochrome P-450 Model Compounds.
Ron Midura, Ph.D. [Bio/ABE] Biomedical Engineering, CC	Connective Tissue Biology
Christine Moravec, Ph.D. [Bio] Molecular Cardiology , CC	Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Human Heart Failure.
Lily Ng, Ph.D.[Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	FTIR Studies of Conformational Structures of Proteins and DNA; Mass Spectroscopic studies of Inhibitor and Enzymes.
Richard Padgett, Ph.D. [Chem] Molecular Biology, CC	Mechanism of Pre-mRNA Splicing in Vivo and in Vitro
Marc Penn , M.D., Ph.D. [ABE] Biomedical Engineering, CC	Left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction: mechanisms and treatment
Jun Qin, Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Molecular Medicine, CC	Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy, protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, signal transduction
Tobili Sam-Yellowe, Ph.D. [Bio] Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, CSU	Development of Rhop-3 protein as a Potential Malaria Vaccine.
Robert Silverman, Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Cancer Biology, CC	RNase L Suppress Gene Expression, Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression by Interferon
Girish Shukla, Ph.D. [Bio] Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, CSU	cancer biology: in vivo and in vitro mechanisms of nuclear pre-mRNA splicing, structure-functions of small RNAs, understanding the role of miRNAs in prostate cancer, modulation of androgen receptor by miRNAs in prostate cancer
Jonathan D. Smith , Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Cell Biology, CC	Cell Biology: Murine Models of Atherosclerosis
Xue-Long Sun , Ph.D. [Chem] Applied Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Binding and mimicry of cell-surface molecules for bioanalytical, pharmaceutical and biomedical applications
George Stark, Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Molecular Biology, CC.	Genetic Analysis of Mammalian Signaling Pathways: Transcriptional Responses to Cytokines and Growth Factors. Pathways for Induction and Function P53.
Dennis J. Stuehr, Ph.D. [Bio/Chem] Immunology, CC	The Structure and biochemistry of nitric oxide synthases.
Bruce Trapp, Ph.D. [Chem] Neurosciences, CC	Studies of Glial Cell Development and Myelin Formation and Demyelination.
Vincent K. Tuohy, Ph.D. [Bio] Immunology, CC	Neuroimmunology, Causes and Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis.
John Turner, Ph.D. [Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Multispectral Imaging and Data Processing of Tissue Pathology using Visible, Raman, and IR Imaging Modalities.
Jacqueline Vitali, Ph.D. [Bio] Department of Physics	Protein crystallography: crystal and molecular structure determination of biologically and/or chemically interesting substances by means of x-ray crystallographic analysis.
Qing Wang, Ph.D. [Chem] Center for Molecular Genetics and Department of Molecular Cardiology, CC	Genetics and Molecular Biology of Human Disease, Angiogenesis, Gene Expression, Developmental Biology
Robert Wei, Ph.D. [Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Development of Biomarkers for Long Term Exposure to Low Level Pollutants.
Crystal Weyman, Ph.D.[Bio] Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, CSU	Signal Pathways that Regulate Differentiation and Apoptosis.
Yan Xu, Ph.D. [Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	Capillary Electrophoresis, Electrochemical Enzyme Immunoassay, Mass Spectrometry for Biomedical Analysis.
Aimin Zhou, Ph.D. [Chem] Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry, CSU	RNase L's role in Mediating Apoptosis in response to Viral Infections and other Types of Stress.

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Faculty & Research Area

Doctoral programs: Bio: Regulatory Biology Chem: Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry ABE: Applied Biomedical Engineering

Doctoral programs:
Bio: Regulatory Biology
Chem: Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry
ABE: Applied Biomedical Engineering