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| Name | Department | Research Interest |
| E. Dale Abel | Div. of Endocrinology; Human Molecular Biology and Genetics | Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Dysfunction in Obesity and Diabetes |
| Jay Agarwal | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy |
| Don Ayer | Oncological Sciences | Investigating the mechanisms that control MondoA subcellular localization and its activity as a transcription factor |
| Geriatrics | The Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center in conjunction with the Division of Geriatric Internal Medicine has two clinical demonstration projects that have or will have IRB approval that may be suitable for medical student participation. | |
| Steven Bleyl | Pediatrics | The inheritance of TAPVR is thought to involve complex genetic and/or environmental factors. |
| Josh Bonkowsky | Department of Pediatrics, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy | Basal Ganglia Axon Pathfinding in Zebrafish |
| Neil Bowles | Pediatrics | The Genetics of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction |
| C. Richard Chapman | Anesthesiology | Improving the Measurement of Acute Pain |
| Richard Dorsky | Neurobiology and Anatomy | Influence On Cells by Their Environment |
| Randal O. Dull | Anesthesiology | Lung endothelial glycoproteins and capillary barrier function |
| Matthew A. Firpo | Surgery | Mouse Models of Pancreatic Cancer |
| Tim Formosa | Biochemistry | Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model to study how the structure of chromatin influences DNA Replication and Transcription |
| Kimble Frazer | Pediatrics; Hematology/Oncology Division & HCI | Changes to the DNA methylation and transcription patterns that accompany lymphocyte commitment to the B and T cell lineages. |
| Kimble Frazer | Pediatrics; Hematology/Oncology Division & HCI | A study of a zebrafish line, TC-8, proven to develop T cell malignancies which most closely resemble human T cell lymphoblastic lymphoma |
| Barbara Graves | Oncological Sciences | Understanding the mechanism of in vivo target selection in the oncogenic ETS family of transcription factors |
| David Grunwald | Human Genetics | How Calcium Fluxes Influence L/R Asymmetric Gene Expression |
| Christopher Hill | Biochemistry | Structural and mechanistic questions related to proteasome activation, HIV assembly and budding, and nucleosome reorganization and remodeling. |
| David Jones | Oncological Sciences | APC and Retinoic Acid in Colon Cancer Development |
| Lynn Jorde | Human Genetics | The roles of variation in genes that encode components of the renin-angiotensin system in essential hypertension. |
| David E. Joyner | Huntsman Cancer Institute and Deptartment of Orthopaedics | Doxorubicin-induced survival in sarcomas: a search for |
| Peter Jensen | Pathology | Unconventional immune responses |
| Randy Jensen | Neurosurgery | Calcium Channel Antagonists Potentiate Chemotherapeutic Growth Inhibition of Meningiomas Using a Novel Luciferase Expression Intracranial Mouse Model |
| Randy Jensen | Neurosurgery | Inhibition of HIF-1 by siRNA in an intracranial brain tumor model |
| Randy Jensen | Neurosurgery | Multi-Factor Comparison to Predict Recurrence Rate of Meningioma |
| Bradley Katz | Opthalmology | Light sensitivity is a common symptom in people with migraine and benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) |
| Janet Lainhart | Psychiatry | Brain-behavior Relationships in Autism: the Cerebellum |
| Stephen Lessnick | Pediatrics and Huntsman Cancer Institute | Target Genes in Ewing's Sarcoma Development |
| Anthea Letsou | Human Genetics | Development of Drosophila Models of Human Disease |
| Gang Liu | Radiology | Potential Drugs to Prevent Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| Nicola Longo | Pediatrics | The Carnitine Transporter in Human Disease |
| Suzanne L. Mansour | Human Genetics | FGF Signaling in Development and Function of the Peripheral Auditory System |
| Matthew Mulvey | Pathology | Bacterial Invasion and Trafficking within the Bladder |
| Sean J. Mulvihill | Surgery | Mouse Models of Pancreatic Cancer |
| Raminder Nirula | Surgery | The risk and cost of care to geriatric surgical patients |
| Raminder Nirula | Surgery | Western Trauma Association open abdomen study |
| Raminder Nirula | Surgery | Quality of life in children after traumatic brain injury. |
| Chuck Norlin | Pediatrics | Analysis of Well Child Care Delivery |
| Shannon Odelberg | Internal Medicine-Cardiology | Development of a technique to study gene function during regeneration in an adult newt. |
| Albert Park | Pediatrics | Development of an animal model for CMV induced sensorineural hearing loss. |
| Tatjana Piotrowski | Neurobiology & Anatomy | Investigating the roles of apc, stat3 and bmp5 in morphogenesis and cell migration |
| Tatjana Piotrowski | Neurobiology & Anatomy | Identification of genes involved in hair cell regeneration |
| Tatjana Piotrowski | Neurobiology & Anatomy | A chemical screen to identify small molecules that rescue collective cell migration in apc mutant embryos |
| Vicente Planelles | Pathology | Vpr in the pathogenesis of primate lentiviruses |
| Vicente Planelles | Pathology | Estblishment of latency by HIV-1 |
| Scott Rogers | Neurobiology & Anatomy | Mouse genetic approach to explore the interactions between nicotine addiction, inflammation and age-related degenerative disorders |
| Janet Shaw | Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Dynamics in Eukaryotic Cell |
| Janet Shaw | Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Fission |
| Janet Shaw | Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Fusion |
| Janet Shaw | Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Transport and Inheritance |
| David Stillman | Pathology | Promoter specificity of transcriptional factors |
| David Stillman | Pathology | Regulation of the Yeast HO gene |
| David Stillman | Pathology | yFACT in transcriptional regulation. |
| Wesley Sundquist | Biochemistry | Virus Budding |
| Wesley Sundquist | Biochemistry | Structural Proteomics |
| Wesley Sundquist | Biochemistry | HIV-1 Disassembly and Restriction |
| Mark A. Supiano | Internal Medicine | Neurohumoral mechanisms of blood pressure regulation and cardiovascular disorders in older individuals |
| Dean Tantin | Pathology | Cancer, metabolism, and stem cell function: the role of Oct transcription factors |
| Carl Thummel | Human Genetics | Regulation of development and metabolism by nuclear receptors and their hormonal ligands |
| Nick Trede | Pediatrics; Hematology/Oncology Division & HCI | The TC3 Zebrafish Line, A Model of Pediatric T Cell Leukemia |
| Katie Ullman | Oncological Sciences | How Membranes Are Dispersed In A Nucleus |
| Janis Weis | Pathology | The Mechanism of Inflammatory Arthritis Development |
| Christof Westenfelder | Internal Medicine/Physiology/Nephrology | Use of Adult Stem Cells as Novel Therapy in Kidney Diseases |
| Dwayne Westenskow | Bioengineering | Charcoal Filled Rebreathing Mask That Accelerates Removal of Anesthetic Vapors |
| Matthew Williams | Pathology | Invading Viral or Bacterial Pathogen |
| Angela Yetman | Pediatrics | Pregnancy in Woman With Repaired Congenital Heart Disease |
| Other Research Opportunities may be found in the Molecular Biology Program. |