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Faculty Research Interests

Rashmi Agni, MD

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Translational Research

Liver pathology

B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, PhD

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Growth Factor/Matrix Biology

Keratinocytes, Cancer Biology, Extracellular Matrices

Teresa P. Darcy, MD

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Clinical Research

Cardiovascular pathology, laboratory management, quality systems

Arthur Eggert, PhD

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Clinical Research

Laboratory information systems, Data mining and representation

Sharon Ehrmeyer, PhD

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Clinical Research

Clinical Laboratory Science Education and Lab Quality Assurance

Zsuzsanna Fabry, PhD

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Immunopathology
Neuroscience

Fabry Lab

Immunopathology, Neuroimmunology, Multiple Sclerosis

Andreas Friedl, MD

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Cancer Biology
Growth Factor/Matrix Biology

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans, tumor angiogenesis

Michael Fritsch, MD, PhD

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Cancer Biology

Chromatin remodeling during early embryonic stem cell differentiation.

Daniel S Greenspan, PhD

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Growth Factor/Matrix Biology
Cancer Biology

Extracellular controls of cell behavior

Gholam-Reza Hafez, MD

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Clinical Research

Quality improvement in surgical pathology; Role of cytogenetics in tumor diagnosis

Michael N Hart, MD

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Immunopathology
Neuroscience

• Antigen presenting properties of microvessel smooth muscle and endothelium, including the MHC
• Co-stimulatory molecules of cytokines involved in antigen presentation
• cellular migration across the blood brain barrier

Josephine Harter, MD

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Translational Research

Breast pathology

Robert Huntington, III, MD

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Clinical Research

Forensic pathology

Daniel Kurtycz, MD

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Clinical Research

Automated education, gynecologic cytology, FNA

Catherine Leith, MB, Bchir

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Translational Research

Microenvironment in plasma cell myeloma, low grade lymphoma

James Malter, MD

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Neuroscience
Growth Factor/Matrix Biology

Post-transcriptional gene regulation; signaling in the immune and nervous systems; neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disease.

Karen Montgomery, PhD, FACMG

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Genotoxicity of heavy metals, pesticides, and JP-8 in pediatric leukemia cluster populations, Cytogenetic abnormalities in human embryonic stem cell cultures

Diane Norback, MD, PhD

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Clinical Research

hematopoietic stem cells, acute leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome

Terry Oberley, MD, PhD

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Cancer Biology

Oberley Lab

Reactive oxygen species metabolism

David O'Connor, PhD

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Immunopathology

O'Connor Lab

HIV/AIDS pathogenesis

Donna Peters, PhD

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Growth Factor/Matrix Biology
Cancer Biology

Cell-matrix signaling in the human eye, Glaucoma

Henry Pitot, MD, PhD

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Regulation of gene expression during carcinogenesis in the liver.

Gordana Raca, MD, PhD, FACMG

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Pathogenesis of human genetic diseases. Effects of trinucleotide repeats on DNA replication and gene expression. Causes and consequences of repeat amplification. Role of copy number changes (deletions and duplications) in genomic DNA in causing genetic disorders. Development and implementation of methods for detecting deletions and duplications, such as: array-based comparative genomic hybridization(array-CGH), multiplex ligation-dependant probe amplification(MLPA), and real-time qPCR.

Erik Ranheim, MD, PhD

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Immunopathology
Cancer Biology

Beta-catenin in normal and neoplastic lymphoid development, tumor immunology, hematopoietic and leukemic stem cell biology

Alan C. Rapraeger, PhD

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Growth Factor/Matrix Biology
Cancer Biology

Rapraeger Lab

Mechanisms by which the syndecan family of cell surface receptors regulate cell growth, adhesion and migration

William Rehrauer, PhD

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Translational Research

Molecular diagnostic techniques

M Shahriar Salamat, MD, PhD

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Clinical Research

CNS development and tumors, neurodegenerative diseases

Matyas Sandor, PhD

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Immunopathology

Sandor Lab

Immune responses to infectious disease

Suzanne Selvaggi, MD

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Clinical Research

New technologies in cytopathology, gynecologic cytopathology

Igor Slukvin, MD, PhD

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Growth Factor/Matrix Biology
Immunopathology

• Hematopoietic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells
• Immune-privileged properties of embryonic and fetal tissues

Carol Spiegel, PhD

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Clinical Research

Bacterial vaginosis, antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Jimmie Stewart, III, MD

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Clinical Research

Computers in education, FNA Cytopathology

Michael Stier, MD

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Clinical Research

Seizure fatalities, childhood deaths and forensic education

Jose Torrealba, MD

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Translational Research

Immunopathology of organ transplantation tolerance

Thomas Warner, MD

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Clinical Research

Fungal diseases, Tumor ablation, Colonic carcinogenesis

David Watkins, PhD

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Immunopathology

Watkins Lab

HIV vaccine development, SIV pathogenesis

James Westgard, PhD

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Clinical Research

Clinical Laboratory Science Education and Lab Quality Assurance

Donald Wiebe, PhD

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Clinical Research

Chemistry, Oncology, Tranfusion practice issues

Ken H. Young, MD, PhD

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Translational Research

Molecular defects of p53 signaling pathway and their clinical significance in hematologic malignancies

Weixiong Zhong, MD, PhD

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Cancer Biology
Growth Factor/Matrix Biology

Redox effects of selenium in prostate cancer chemoprevention

Gabriele Zu Rhein, MD

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Neuroscience

Research has been centered on viral diseases, prion diseases and other infections of the central nervous system, and on viral oncogenesis.
   
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