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Nicole Riddle, PhD
Professor
Department: Biology
Research Interests: Epigenetics; Chromatin structure; HP1 proteins; Gene regulation; Exercise response; Drosophila melanogaster
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Erik Roberson, MD, PhD
Professor
Department: Neurology
Research Interests: Alzheimer's disease; Frontotemporal dementia and related disorders
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Angela Rothrock, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Geriatric Medicine; Education systems
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Steve Rowe, MD
Professor
Department: Medicine
Division: Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care
Research Interests: Developing new treatments for cystic fibrosis
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Loring Rue, III, MD
Vice Chair
Department: Surgery
Division: General Surgery Trauma Section
Division: Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care
Research Interests: Trauma system development and outcomes; Quality; Patient safety; clinical and operational effectiveness
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Michael Saag, MD
Professor
Department: Medicine
Division: Infectious Diseases
Research Interests: HIV; AIDS; Hepatitis B and C virus infections
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Isabel Scarinci, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department: Medicine
Division: Preventive Medicine
Research Interests: Cancer disparities - racial/ethnic minorities and rural populations; Globalization and cancer; Cancer prevention and control in low-resource settings; Tobacco control; Cervical cancer - screening and HPV vaccination
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Harry Schroeder, Jr., MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department: Medicine
Division: Immunology/Rheumatology
Research Interests: Genetics of primary immune deficiency diseases; Use of classic reverse genetics techniques to study human immune deficiency disorders
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John Shacka, PhD
Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology/Toxicology
Research Interests: Autophagy-lysosome pathway, neurodegenerative disease
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Richard Shelton, MD
Professor
Department: Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology
Research Interests: Depression; Suicide; Bipolar disorder; Experimental therapeutics; Biomarker identification
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Sadeep Shrestha
Professor
Research Interests: Genetic Epidemiology & "Omics"; Inflammation, Infection and Immunity related diseases and outcomes; HIV; HPV; Kawasaki Disease; Electronic Medical Record & Genomics
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Andrzej Slominski
Professor
Department: Dermatology
Research Interests: Dermapathology
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Keshav Singh, PhD
Professor
Department: Genetics
Research Interests: Underlying mechanisms of mitochondria-to-nucleus retrograde signaling, “intergenomic” cross talk, genomic instability, and its role in cancer and other human diseases; Developing agents and methods that can detect and reverse mitochondrial defects in cells and identify potential "mitomutagens"
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Daniel Smith, Jr, PhD
Associate Professor
Department: Nutrition Sciences
Research Interests: Obesity, calorie restriction, calorie restriction mimetics, brown adipose tissue, carbohydrate metabolism, and systems biology of aging using budding yeast chronological lifespan
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Om Srivastava, PhD
Professor
Department: Optometry & Vision Science
Research Interests: Corneal diseases and catractogenesis, molecular biology, cell biology and biochemical techniques
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David Standaert, MD, PhD
Professor
Department: Neurology
Research Interests: Understanding the root causes of Parkinson disease (PD) and the origin of the disabling symptoms that appear after long term treatment of the disease
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Josh Stern
Assistant Professor
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Research Interests: Telomerase Regulation in Cancer and Stem Cells
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Natividad Stover, MD
Professor
Department: Neurology
Research Interests: Parkinson's disease; Dystonia; Gait disorder; Tremor; Tics; Involuntary movements and rest of movement disorders
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Liou Sun, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department: Biology
Research Interests: Biology of Aging; Endocrinology; Obesity; Neurodegenerative disease
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Mark Swanson, OD
Professor
Department: Optometry
Research Interests: Vision; Aging
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