Cellular & Molecular Faculty

       
Name Email Campus Specialty
Alexandru Almasan

almasaa@ccf.org

CCF Ph.D., University of South Carolina. Genotoxic stress-induced signals for cell cycle control and cell death. More on Almasan
Mohammad Ansari

mansari1@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Ansari
Julie Aultman

jmaultma@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Aultman
Soumitra Basu

sbasu@kent.edu

Kent Quadraplex structures, insulin binding, gene structures and function. More on Basu
Joseph Bedont

jbedont@kent.edu

Kent sleep; circadian rhythms; metabolism; autophagy; polyamines; nitrogen stress. More on Bedont
Cornelia Bergmann

bergmac@ccf.org

CCF More on Bergmann
Heather Caldwell

hcaldwel@kent.edu

Kent Role of neuropeptides in regulating social behaviors and neuropsychiatric disorders. More on Caldwell
Yeong-Renn Chen

ychen1@neomed.edu

NEOMED Oxygen free radicals, Nitric oxide, oxidative postranslational modifications, mitochondrial biology in myocardial infarction. More on Chen
William Chilian

wchilian@neomed.edu

NEOMED Angiogenesis, arteriogenesis, regulation of coronary blood flow, heart failure, stem cells, regenerative medicine. More on Chilian
Chi-hua Chiu Groff

cchiu5@kent.edu

Kent More on Chiu Groff
Wilson Chung

wchung@kent.edu

Kent Neuroendocrine brain, androgens, fibroblast growth factor signaling. More on Chung
Robert Clements

rclement@kent.edu

Kent More on Clements
Lique Coolen

jcoolen@kent.edu

Kent Mechanisms by which spinal cord injury affects urogenital and sexual function, neurobiology of addiction and understanding neural circuits that mediate female reproductive function and dysfunction. More on Coolen
Lisa Cooper

lcooper@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Cooper
John Crabb

crabbj@ccf.org

CCF More on Crabb
Samuel Crish

scrish@neomed.edu

NEOMED Glaucoma, axonal transport, structure and function. More on Crish
Mark Dalman

mdalman@kent.edu

Kent More on Dalman
Bansidhar Datta

bdatta@kent.edu

Kent More on Datta
Dimitrios Davalos

davalod@ccf.org

CCF The Dimitrios Davalos lab studies the interactions between blood vessels, neurons and microglia in health and disease. More on Davalos
Angelo Delucia

ald@neomed.edu

NEOMED Molecular biology of DNA tumor viruses, genetics of viral DNA replication, viral etiology of cancer. More on Delucia
Christine Dengler-Crish

ccrish@neomed.edu

NEOMED Early disease mechanisms in dementia; sensory system disruptions and homeostatic dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease. More on Crish
Feng Dong

fdong@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Dong
Jean Engohang-Ndong

jengohan@kent.edu

Kent More on Engohang-Ndong
Serpil Erzurum

erzurus@ccf.org

CCF More on Erzurum
Jessica Ferrell

jfrancl@neomed.edu

NEOMED Long-term research interests lie in examining the pathological disruptions to bile acid physiology that contribute to alcoholic- and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We are also interested in studying the interactions between liver/gut metabolism and Alzheimer’s disease, as Type 2 diabetes, cholesterol homeostasis, and gut dysbiosis are thought to be involved in disease progression, while bile acids and their receptors may be novel therapeutic targets.
Sheila Fleming

sfleming1@neomed.edu

NEOMED

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Alexander Galazyuk

agalaz@neomed.edu

NEOMED Neuroscience of hearing. More on Galazyuk
Rebecca German

rgerman@neomed.edu

NEOMED Neurophysiology and biomechanics. Regulation of feeding and pathophysiology of dysphagia. More on German
Candece Gladson

gladsoc@ccf.org

CCF More on Gladson
Adam Goodwill

agoodwill@neomed.edu

NEOMED Mechanisms of coronary flow control, studies of cardiac function and identification of cardioprotective pathways. More on Goodwill
Tariq Haqqi

thaqqi@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Haqqi
James Hardwick

jph@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Hardwick
Elda Hegmann

ehegmann@kent.edu

Kent More on Hegmann
Tobin Hieronymus

thieronymus@neomed.edu

NEOMED Pattern and process of skeletal evolution in vertebrates. More on Hieronymus
Min-Ho Kim

mkim15@kent.edu

Kent Nanomedicine strategies towards the treatment of diseases including drug-resistant bacterial infections, chronic wounds, and Alzheimer's disease. More on Kim
Woo Yang Kim

wkim2@kent.edu

Kent Brain development, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, intellectual disability, brain circuit, neural stem cell. More on Kim
Edgar Kooijman

ekooijma@kent.edu

Kent Biophysics protein/lipid interactions, physical chemistry of lipid structure and function, model membranes, neutral lipid storage (lipid droplets/adipocytes). More on Kooijman
Gary Koski

gkoski@kent.edu

Kent Immune system and cancer, vaccines, molecular mechanisms. More on Koski
Vijay Krishna

krishnv2@ccf.org

CCF More on Krishna
Manabu Kurokawa

mkurokaw@kent.edu

Kent

More on Kurokawa 

Kurokawa Lab

Sangeet Lamichhaney

slamichh@kent.edu

Kent

 Our lab is broadly interested in understanding how an organism responds to novel environments. We integrate a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including comparative ‘omics’ (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics and Metabolomics), together with experimental physiology to uncover the molecular basis underlying the processes of adaptation. More on Lamichhaney

Yoon-Kwang Lee

ylee3@neomed.edu

NEOMED Structure and regulation of nuclear hormone receptors. More on Lee
Laura Leff

lleff@kent.edu

Kent Molecular ecology of bacteria, bacterial enumeration and identification. More on Leff
William Lynch

wonk@neomed.edu

NEOMED Mechanisms of neurodegeneration, CNS gene therapy, RNA tumor virus assembly and pathogenesis, microglial developmental biology. More on Lynch
Hanbin Mao

hmao@kent.edu

Kent More on Mao
Ryota Matsuoka

matsuor@ccf.org

CCF

Developmental neuroscience, brain barriers, brain-blood communications, brain vascular cell heterogeneity, neurovascular morphogenesis, and cerebrovascular diseases. More on Matsuoka

Jennifer McDonough

jmcdonou@kent.edu

Kent Regenerative medicine, mitochondrial dysfunction and epigenetic mechanisms in multiple sclerosis. More on McDonough
Jeffrey Mellott

jmellott@neomed.edu

NEOMED Age-related changes to inhibitory circuitry in the auditory pathways.  More on Mellott
Michael Model

mmodel@kent.edu

Kent Apoptosis, cell water and volume regulation, membrane potential. More on Model
Xiaozhen Mou

xmou@kent.edu

Kent Metatranscriptomics of bacteria, pathogens in ecosystem. More on Mou
Devin Mueller

dmuell10@kent.edu

Kent Neural mechanisms of learning and memory that underlie drug use and emotional regulation. More on Mueller
Colleen Novak

cnovak13@kent.edu

Kent Neural and endocrine mechanisms of activity thermogenesis in obesity. More on Novak
Christine O'Connor

oconnoc6@ccf.org

CCF More on O'Connor
Vahagn Ohanyan

vohanyan@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Ohanyan
Heather O'Leary holeary@neomed.edu NEOMED More on O'Leary
Moses Oyewumi

moyewumi@neomed.edu

NEOMED Drug delivery, nanotechnology, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases. More on Oyewumi
Richard Piet

rpiet@kent.edu

Kent Neurophysiological mechanisms involved in regulating the activity of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and their contributions to biological timing and fertility. More on Piet
Helen Piontkivska

opiontki@kent.edu

Kent Comparative and evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, molecular evolution. More on Piontkivska
Gunnar Poplawski

poplawg@ccf.org

CCF Translational therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, stem cell and gene therapies for spinal cord injury, in vitro and in vivo models of glioblastomas, hIPSC derived neurons to study regeneration. More on Poplawski
Priya Raman

praman@neomed.edu

NEOMED My lab is interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying vascular complications and Alzheimer's disease-related dementia associated with diabetes and obesity. We are studying the role of a post-translational protein modification (O-Glycosylation) and a proatherogenic matricellular protein (Thrombospondin-1) in vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic changes and seeking to understand how targets contributed to vascular and cognitive anomalies in metabolic disorders. More on Raman
Erin Reed-Geaghan

ereedgeaghan@neomed.edu

 

NEOMED My lab is interested in the role of the immune system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Specifically, we seek to understand the ways in which the brain’s resident immune cells, microglia, contribute to the neuroinflammatory processes driving neurodegeneration. We believe microglia from men and women respond differently in AD, contributing to the sex differences in disease onset and progression, and we’re working on identifying the reasons for these differences. We are also interested in how these cells communicate with the circulating peripheral immune system, and the ways in which these interactions affect disease progression
Merri Rosen

mrosen@neomed.edu

NEOMED Effects of developmental stress and hearing loss on auditory perception and neural circuity. More on Rosen
Mary Russell

mrussel1@kent.edu

Kent Intermediate filament protein synemin, heart, protein kinases. More on Russell
Prabodh Sadana

psadana@neomed.edu

NEOMED Hormonal regulation of lipid metabolism. More on Sadana
Fayez Safadi

fsafadi@neomed.edu

NEOMED Osteoblast development and function, effects of hormones and growth factors. More on Safadi
Thorsten-Lars Schmidt

tschmi21@kent.edu

Kent DNA nanotechnology-based tools and materials for single-molecule biophysics and nanomedicine.  More on Schmidt
Brett Schofield

bschofie@neomed.edu

NEOMED Functional anatomy of auditory pathways. More on Schofield
Sharad Shanbhag

sshanbhag@neomed.edu

NEOMED The amygdala's role in vocal communication. More on Shanbhag
Woo-Shik Shin (Austin)

wshin@neomed.edu

NEOMED

Novel combination antibacterial therapy against drug resistance ESKAPE pathogens. Drug repurposing and combinational approach to block abnormal protein aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease.

 

Our lab focuses on computational structure-based drug design and drug delivery system for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other degenerative disorders. Current research is driven by two key topics: How to develop new therapeutic approach for neurodegenerative and other brain diseases? How to design the blood-brain barrier shuttle peptides with neuronal specificity? 

Robert Silverman

silverr@ccf.org

CCF More on Silverman
Apollo Stacy

stacya2@ccf.org

CCF More on Stacy
J.G.M. Thewissen

thewisse@neomed.edu

NEOMED Mammalian anatomy and evolution, morphological adaptations such as those for swimming and flight. More on Thewissen
Anthony Tosi

atosi@kent.edu

Kent More on Tosi
Bruce Trapp

trappb@ccf.org

CCF More on Trapp
Sean Veney

sveney@kent.edu

Kent Behavioral neuroendocrinology, sexual differentiation of the brain, syrinx anatomy, neuroethology of birdsong. More on Veney
Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan

svijayar@kent.edu

Kent Signal transduction, sperm physiology, fertilization, contraception. More on Vijayaraghavan
Xinwen Wang

xwang2@neomed.edu

NEOMED One size does not fit all. For many patients, standard drug treatment might not work or even trigger life-threatening adverse reactions. There is an urgent clinical need to provide tailored therapy for patients. Our laboratory focuses on applying pharmaco-omics tools (i.e. pharmacogenomics, proteomics and metabolomics) to identify both genetic and non-genetic factors contributing to the interindividual variability related to disease risks and drug therapies. Our research is expected to improve the efficacy and safety of drugs by identifying biomarkers that can predict individual drug responses, revealing novel drug targets and translating these findings into clinical precision pharmacotherapy. More on Wang

Jeffrey Wenstrup

jjw@neomed.edu

NEOMED Neural mechanisms of hearing, acoustic communication, including emotional responses to sound. More on Wenstrup
Jessica Williams

williaj39@ccf.org

CCF More on Williams
Bradley Winters

bwinters@neomed.edu

NEOMED Cellular neurophysiology of brainstem sound localization circuits that process timing and intensity differences between the two ears. More on Winters
Liya Yin

lyin@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on Yin
Jesse Young

jwyoung@neomed.edu

NEOMED Comparative and developmental biomechanics of locomotion. More on Young
Ping Zhang

pzhang@neomed.edu

NEOMED More on P. Zhang
Yanqiao Zhang

yzhang@neomed.edu

NEOMED Regulation of lipid and glucose metabolism under normal and disease conditions. More on Zhang