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Mentor & Department	Research Area
Abdel-Malek, Zalfa PhD Dermatology	Regulation of human pigmentation, photobiology and photocarcinogenesis, genetic susceptibility to melanoma; role of melanocortins and the melanocortin 1 receptor
Askew, David PhD Pathology and Laboratory Medicine	Research Area: cellular immunology of fungal infections, therapeutic strategies for fungus-host infections
Baccei, Mark PhD Anesthesiology	Research Area: early life stress and pain biology, neurodevelopment and neuropharmacology
Blackard, Jason PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases	Research Area: infectious diseases, translational research focusing on human and mechanistic studies to understand virus-virus and virus-host interactions
Borchers, Michael PhD Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Division	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Conforti, Laura PhD Nephrology	Ion channels and membrane mechanisms that regulate activation and function of human lymphocytes in cancer and autoimmunity
Deepe, George PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease	Research Area: Cellular immunology of fungal infections, T-cell biology and immunopharmacology
Gudelsky, Gary PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy	Neuropharmacology of amphetamines
Hildeman, David PhD Department of Pediatirics, Division of Immunology	Molecular factors that control the decision between tolerance and immunity within T lymphocytes; mechanisms underlying sex-based differences in T cell responses and how these differences relate to autoimmune disease
Holland, Christy PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases	Bioeffects of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound
Kao, Winston PhD Ophthalmology	Treatment of eye disease and eye trauma; transplantation of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (UMSC) into cornea stroma
Kirley, Terry PhD Pharmacology & Cell Biophysics	Protein expresson and refolding, cysteine and disulfide chemistry and analysis
Kotagiri, Nalinikanth PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences	Research Area: photonanomedicine, experimental cancer therapeutics
Li, Kevin PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy	Drug delivery, transdermal delivery, non-invasive pharmacokinetics
McGraw, Dennis MD Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Division	G-protein receptor signaling, asthma, adrenergic receptors, airway smooth muscle
Miller, William PhD Molecular Genetics	Mechanism of microbial pathogenesis to manipulate host cell signal transduction pathways
Norman, Andrew PhD Pharmacology & Cell Biophysics	Medications for treatment of cocaine abuse; drug self-administration
Ramsey, Laura PhD Department of Pediatrics	Research Area: Pharmacogenomics/genetics and role of pharmacokinetics
Robson, Matthew PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences	Research Area: traumatic brain injury, neuropharmacology, neurobehavioral, interleukin signaling
Schultz, Jo El PhD, Program Director Pharmacology and Systems Physiology	Approaches to myocardial injury protection; molecular mechanism of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure, growth factors, angiogenesis and muscle regeneration, opioid system
Tranter, Michael PhD Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases	Research Area: post-transcriptional gene regulation in cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis or ischemia-reperfusion injury
Vinks, Alexander PhD, PharmD Department of Pediatrics, Division of Clinical Pharmacology	Clinical pharmacology, population-based PK/PD modeling, pharmacogenomics
Waltz, Susan PhD Cancer & Cell Biology	Ron receptor tyrosine kinase and growth factors, mechanism regulating cancer growth and metastasis and inflammation
Wang, Hong-Sheng PhD Pharmacology & Cell Biophysics	Role of ion channels controlling electrical and mechanical properties of cardiac cells; heart failure and arrhythmias
Weber, Georg PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy	cancer, metastasis, cytokines, osteopontin

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