Focus Areas
Aging Focus Area
Erhard Bieberich, PhD
Lipid Biochemistry
Steven Estus, PhD
Molecular Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease
Lance Johnson, PhD
APOE, Brain Metabolism, Alzheimer's Disease
Shannon Macauley, PhD
Brain Metabolism, Alzheimer's Disease, Sleep
Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, PhD
Role of Sphingolipid Signal Transduction Pathway in Animal Aging
Stefanka Spassieva, PhD
Sphingolipid Metabolism in Neurodegeneration and Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Diseases Focus Area
Cheavar A. Blair, PhD
Mechanical Disruption of Cardiac Function Caused by Chemotherapy, Inherited Mutations, Altered Circadian Rhythms
Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
Molecular Mechanisms of Human Vascular Diseases
Brian Delisle, PhD
Cardiovascular Physiology, Chronobiology
Ming Cui Gong, PhD, MD
Circadian Blood Pressure Rhythm in Normal and Diabetes, Aortic Aneurysm
Scott Gordon, PhD
Roles of Lipoproteins in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
Gregory Graf, PhD
Regulation of Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism in the Development and Treatment of Cardiometabolic Disease
Xiang-An Li, PhD
Role of Adrenal Stress Response in Sepsis, Mechanisms of High Cholesterol Diet-Induced Sudden Death
Hong S. Lu, MD, PhD
Atherosclerosis, Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections
Jonathan Satin, PhD
Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Function and Restoration from Heart Failure
Hisashi Sawada, PhD
Embryonic Origins of Smooth Muscle Cells in the Ascending Aorta
Ryan Temel, PhD
Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
Christopher Mark Waters, PhD, ATSF
Lung Injury and Repair, Pulmonary Fibrosis
Muscle Biology Focus Area
John J. McCarthy, PhD
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Plasticity
Yuan Wen, PhD, MD
Translational Regulation by Ribosome Specialization, Biomedical Imaging, Application of Artificial Intelligence, (Epi)Genetics
Neuroscience Focus Area
Lei Chen, MD, PhD
Cerebrovascular & Neurological Diseases, Stem Cell Therapy, Innovative Monitoring Techniques
John Carib Gensel, PhD
Neuroinflammation in Spinal Cord and Brain Injury
Brad Hubbard, PhD
Blood-Brian Barrier and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Samir P. Patel, PhD
Mitochondrial Targeted Therapeutics, Macrophage Metabolism & Systemic Infection Following Spinal Cord Injury
Kathryn Saatman, PhD
Pathobiology of Traumatic Brain Injury
Sensory Focus Area
Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hearing
Timothy McClintock, PhD
Olfaction, Neural Regeneration, Neurogenerative Disease
A. Catalina Velez-Ortega, PhD
Molecular Pathways of Hearing Protection and Plasticity