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FACULTY
Rakesh Kumar Professor and Chairman
Catharine B. & William McCormick Chair
Ph.D. 1984, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Keywords: Cytoskeleton signaling, nuclear receptors, coregulators, transcription controls, and cancer signaling.
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Patricia E. Berg Professor
Ph.D. 1973, Illinois Institute of Technology
Keywords: Homeobox genes and cancer (breast cancer, prostate cancer and leukemia), BP1, gene regulation, therapy, and early detection.
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Bernard Bouscarel Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1985, D. Sc. 1995, University of Toulouse, France
Keywords: G-protein coupled receptors, substance P, and propranolol analogues.
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Joanna Chmielinska Assistant Research Professor
Ph.D. 1999, George Washington University
Keywords: Cardiovascular tissue injury due to magnesium deficiency, and iron overload.
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Mark S. Elliott Associate professor
Ph.D. 1983, The Ohio State University
Keywords: Transfer RNA, queuosine, phytoestrogens, reveratrol, Shigella infectivity, and gene expression.
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Sidney W. Fu Associate Research Professor
M.D. 1989, Xi'an Medical University; Ph.D. 1994, Peking Union Medical College
Keywords: Cancer, genomics, homeobox gene, diabetes, and bioinformatics.
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Allan L. Goldstein Professor
Ph.D. 1964, Rutgers University
Keywords: Thymosins, Wound Healing, Aging, and Immunomodulation.
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Valerie W. Hu Professor
Ph.D. 1978, California Institute of Technology
Keywords: Autism, transcriptional profiling, DNA methylation, microRNA expression, diagnostic screen, and cellular models.
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Jay H. Kramer Associate Research Professor
Ph.D. 1982, Lehigh University
Keywords: Mg deficiency and chronic iron toxicity, postischemic myocardial injury model, myocyte reoxygenation injury, EPR spectroscopy, and antioxidant therapy.
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Andrei Komarov Associate Research Professor
M.D. 1984, Russian State Medical University; Ph.D. 1988, Inst. of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Keywords: Cardiovascular disease, nitric oxide, oxidative stress, shock, and reactive oxygen species.
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Ajit Kumar Professor
Ph.D. 1968, University of Chicago
Keywords: Regulation of viral gene trans-activation, role of cellular factors, and RNA protein interactions.
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Raj Lakshman Research Professor
Ph.D. 1966, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India
Keywords: Alcoholism, liver disease, oxidative stress, lipids and lipoproteins, metabolic and genetic obesity, and gene regulation and expression.
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Da-Qiang Li Assistant Research Professor M.D., 2003, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
Keywords: Coregulators, signaling effectors, DNA-damage response, and radio-sensitivity
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I. Tong Mak Research Professor
Ph.D. 1982, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Keywords:Free radical pathobiology, antioxidant drug mechanisms, lysosome in iron overload, AZT toxicity, and Mg-deficiency-induced inflammation.
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Tim McCaffrey Professor
Ph.D. 1985, Purdue University
Keywords: Heart diseases, cancer and fibrosis; genomic methods to identify the causative genes, therapeutic interventions, and adult stem cells in cardiovascular disease.
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Sujit S. Nair Assistant Research Professor
Ph.D. 2003, National Center For Cell Science, Pune, India
Keywords: Eukaryotic transcription, Coregulators, Epigenetics.
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William Nierman Professor
Ph.D. 1979, University of California Berkeley.
Keywords: Innate immune system, secondary metabolites, genomics, and microbial pathogens.
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Marcos Rojkind Research Professor
M.D. 1962, National University of Mexico; Ph.D. 1970, National Polytechnical Institute of Mexico
Keywords: Cell-matrix interaction, liver fibrosis, TGF-ß1 action, oxidative stress and hydrogen peroxide, and hepatitis C virus replication.
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Mahesh C. Sharma
Associate Research Professor
Ph.D. 1991, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
Keywords: Angiogenesis, breast cancer, annexin II, fibrinolysis, plasmin.
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Jack Y. Vanderhoek Professor
Ph.D. 1966, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords: Fatty acids, eicosanoids, lipids, and history of medicine.
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Glenn A. Walker Professor and Vice-Chair for Educational Programs
Ph.D. 1963, Michigan State University
Keywords: Human Nutrition, and Medical and graduate education.
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William Weglicki Professor
M.D. 1962, University of Maryland
Keywords: Neurogenic peptides, substance P, and propranolol analogues.
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Ray-Chang Wu Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1999, University of Southern California
Keywords: Steroid hormone receptors and coactivators, membrane signalings, post-translational modifications, and tumorigenesis.
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Wenge Zhu Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2003, University of Vermont
Keywords: DNA replication, checkpoint, cell cycle, and cancer therapy.
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