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| Name | Department | Research Interest |
| A | ||
| E. Dale Abel | Div. of Endocrinology; Human Molecular Biology and Genetics | Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Dysfunction in Obesity and Diabetes |
| Cori Agarwal | Plastic Surgery | Mood Disorders and the Plastic Surgery Patient |
| Jay Agarwal | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy |
| Bala Ambati | Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Corneal and Retinal Angiogenesis |
| 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. | |
| Michael Belfort | Obstetrics & Gynecology | T Non-invasive Impedance Cardiography and Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA) Doppler Analysis in the Evaluation of Cerebral, Central Cardiac, and Peripheral Hemodynamic Responses to Magnesium Sulfate Infusion in Severely Preeclamptic Versus Mildly Preeclamptic Pregnant Women. |
| Steven Bleyl | Pediatrics | The inheritance of TAPVR is thought to involve complex genetic and/or environmental factors. |
| Josh Bonkowsky | Pediatrics, Neurobiology and Anatomy | Effects of Hypoxia on Development of CNS Connectivity |
| Sihem Boudina | Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in White Adipose Tissue Expansion in Diet Induced Obesity |
| Neil Bowles | Pediatrics | The Genetics of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction |
| Cherie Brunker | Internal Medicine, Div. of Geriatrics | Clinic Based Informatics Tools for the Care of Seniors |
| David Bull | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Assessment of Ventricular Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction Using MRI & DTMRI |
| C | ||
| Noel Carlson | Neurobiology & Anatomy | The role of COX-2 in myelin loss in Alzheimers disease |
| C. Richard Chapman | Anesthesiology | Improving the Measurement of Acute Pain |
| D | ||
| Richard Dorsky | Neurobiology and Anatomy | Influence On Cells by Their Environment |
| Randal O. Dull | Anesthesiology | Molecular Mechanisms of Acute and Chronic Lung Injury |
| E | ||
| Karen Eilbeck | Human Genetics | Annotation and Analysis of Personal Genomes for Variants in Genes Involved in Heart Disease |
| F | ||
| Julio C. Facelli | Biomedical Informatics | Analysis of Clinical Workflow Disruptions Using Agent Based Modeling |
| 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; Oncological Sciences | Zebrafish Models of Human T Cell Cancer |
| G | ||
| David Gaffney | Radiation Oncology | Gynecologic and Breast Radiotherapy projects |
| Hamid Ghandehari | Pharmaceutics & Bioengineering | Genetically engineered polymers for gene delivery |
| Hamid Ghandehari | Pharmaceutics & Bioengineering | Water-soluble polymers for targeted delivery |
| Hamid Ghandehari | Pharmaceutics & Bioengineering | Poly (amidoamine) dendrimers for oral delivery |
| Hamid Ghandehari | Pharmaceutics & Bioengineering | Inorganic nanoconstructs for controlled chemical delivery |
| Don Granger | Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases | Pathogenesis of Severe Malaria |
| Barbara Graves | Oncological Sciences | Understanding the mechanism of in vivo target selection in the oncogenic ETS family of transcription factors |
| Patrick Greis | Orthopaedic Surgery | Evaluation of Hamstring Harvest Site following ACL Reconstruction |
| David Grunwald | Human Genetics | Studies of Human Disease Mechanisms in the Zebrafish |
| H | ||
| Curt Hagedorn | Ophthalmology | Identifying New Host Antiviral Genes |
| Gregory S. Hageman | Internal Medicine | Genes and Pathways Associated with Age-related Macular Degeneration and Allied Immune-mediated Diseases |
| Kurt Hegmann | Family and Preventive Medicine | Commercial Truck Driver Health and Safety: Preventing Injury and Illness |
| Christopher Hill | Biochemistry | Structural and mechanistic questions related to proteasome activation, HIV assembly and budding, and nucleosome reorganization and remodeling. |
| L. Eric Huang | Neurosurgery | Development of Glioma Resistance to DNA Alkylating Agents |
| L. Eric Huang | Neurosurgery | Mechanisms of Genetic Alteration for Tumor Progression |
| Duong Huynh | Neurology | Investigating the Link Between Environmental Toxins and Genes Associated with Familial Parkinsonism |
| I | ||
| J | ||
| 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 |
| 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 & Lor Randall | Department of Orthopaedics and Huntsman Cancer Institute | Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling in Sarcomas |
| K | ||
| Bradley Katz | Opthalmology | Light sensitivity is a common symptom in people with migraine and benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) |
| Richard D. King | Neurology Director, Alzheimer's Image Analysis Laboratory |
Developing Neuroimaging Biomarkers to Improve the Accuracy and Sensitivity of Detecting Neurodegenerative Disease |
| Bomjun Kwon | Communication Science & Disorders Otolaryngology (adjunct) |
Perceptual effects of mixed channel configurations in cochlear implants |
| L | ||
| 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 |
| Edward Levine | Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | Screening for Inhibitors of Glial Scar Formation in the Damaged Retina |
| Gang Liu | Radiology | Potential Drugs to Prevent Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| Nicola Longo | Pediatrics | The Carnitine Transporter in Human Disease |
| M | ||
| Suzanne L. Mansour | Human Genetics | FGF Signaling and Ear Development |
| Stephane M. Meystre | Biomedical Informatics, Huntsman Cancer Institute | Automated Extraction of Information from Textual Reports for Colorectal Cancer Research |
| Philip Moos | Pharmacology Toxicology | Role of TR1 in the Etiology of Cancer |
| Laurie Moyer-Mileur | Pediatrics | Molecular Effects of Developmental Massage in Early Postnatal Life |
| Matthew Mulvey | Pathology | Bacterial Invasion and Trafficking within the Bladder |
| Sean J. Mulvihill | Surgery | Mouse Models of Pancreatic Cancer |
| N | ||
| 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 |
| Ingrid Nygaard | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Research in Female Pelvic Floor Disorders |
| O | ||
| Shannon Odelberg | Internal Medicine-Cardiology | Development of a technique to study gene function during regeneration in an adult newt |
| P-Q | ||
| Albert Park | Pediatrics | Drug Delivery Protocols 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 |
| Stefan Pulst | Neurology | Compound Screen for Neurodegeneration and Molecular Biology of Parkinson Disease |
| R | ||
| Scott Rogers | Neurobiology & Anatomy | Mouse genetic approach to explore the interactions between nicotine addiction, inflammation and age-related degenerative disorders |
| S | ||
| Yukio Saijoh | Neurobiology & Anatomy | Morphogenesis of Internal Orgrans |
| Jason J. Schwartz | General Surgery, Div. of Transplantation | Cholangiocarcinoma - In Search of Molecular Markers |
| Jason J. Schwartz | General Surgery, Div. of Transplantation | Hepatorenal Syndrome |
| Jason J. Schwartz | General Surgery, Div. of Transplantation | Angiogenesis |
| Jason J. Schwartz | General Surgery, Div. of Transplantation | Precursors to Pancreatic Cancer |
| Daniel Scoles | Neurology | Characterization of Drugs for the Treatment of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 (SCA2) |
| Janet Shaw | Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Dynamics in Eukaryotic Cell |
| Janet Shaw | Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Fusion |
| Janet Shaw | Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Transport and Inheritance |
| Ila Singh | Pathology | Retroviral Replication |
| Rajasekaran N. Soorappan (Raj) | Cardiology | Investigate the Role of Nrf2, a Key Transcription Factor that Regulates the Antioxidant/ Cytoprotective Genes, in Cardiac Physiological and Pathological Processes |
| David Stillman | Pathology | Promoter specificity of transcriptional factors |
| David Stillman | Pathology | Regulation of the gene expression by changes in chromatin structure |
| David Stillman | Pathology | Regulaton of gene expression at the G1/S transition in mammalian cells |
| Wesley Sundquist | Biochemistry | Virus Budding |
| Wesley Sundquist | Biochemistry | Structural Proteomics |
| Wesley Sundquist | Biochemistry | HIV-1 Disassembly and Restriction |
| Younghoon Sung; Perry F. Renshaw | Psychiatry; The Brain Institute | Multimodal Neuroimaging Study: Citicoline Treatment of Methamphetamine Dependence |
| Mark A. Supiano | Internal Medicine | Neurohumoral mechanisms of blood pressure regulation and cardiovascular disorders in older individuals |
| J. David Symons | Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes | The role of ceramide in obesity-related arterial dysfunction |
| T | ||
| Sharif Taha | Physiology | Elucidating a Role for Opioids in Stress-induced Eating |
| Dean Tantin | Pathology | Cancer, metabolism, and stem cell function: the role of Oct transcription factors |
| Carl Thummel | Human Genetics | Regulation of metabolism in the context of key regulators of these pathways - nuclear hormone receptors |
| Nick Trede | Pediatrics; Hematology/Oncology Division & HCI | The TC3 Zebrafish Line, A Model of Pediatric T Cell Leukemia |
| Katie Ullman | Oncological Sciences | Protein Methyltransferases in a Tumor Suppression Pathway |
| Katie Ullman | Oncological Sciences | How Membranes Are Dispersed In A Nucleus |
| W-X | ||
| Li Wang | Internal Medicine, Oncological Sciences | Identifying MicroRNA Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes in Liver Cancer |
| 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 | Anesthesiology | Clinical Evaluation of a Rebreathing Adsorber Mask to Facilitate Recovery from Volatile Anesthetics |
| Dwayne Westenskow | Anesthesiology | Intravenous Infusion Pump User Centered Design |
| Matthew Williams | Pathology | Invading Viral or Bacterial Pathogen |
| Y | ||
| Jun Yang | Ophthalmology | Retinal Degeneration Generally Includes Inherited Retinal Degeneration and Age-related Macular Degeneration |
| Angela Yetman | Pediatrics | Pregnancy in Woman With Repaired Congenital Heart Disease |
| Z |
| Other Research Opportunities may be found in the Molecular Biology Program. |