Focus Areas
Aging Focus Area
Francisco Andrade, PhD
Development and Aging of Craniofacial and Respiratory Muscles
Erhard Bieberich, PhD
Lipid Biochemistry
Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
Cardiovascular Research Center
Steven Estus, PhD
Molecular Genetics of Alzheimers Disease
Lance Johnson, PhD
ApoE, Brain Metabolism and Cognition
Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, PhD
Role of Sphingolipid Signal Transduction Pathway in Animal Aging
Donna Wilcock PhD
Role of Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics
Cardiovascular Focus Area
Alan Daugherty, PhD, D.Sc
Molecular Mechanisms of Human Vascular Diseases
Brian Delisle, PhD
Cardiovascular
Ming Cui Gong, PhD, MD
Signal Transduction in Vascular Smooth Muscle
Scott Gordon, PhD
Metabolism and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Brian Jackson, PhD
Signal Transduction Systems Involved in Regulation of Renal Tubular Transport
and in Adrenal Catecholamine Synthesis and Secretion
Jonathan Satin, PhD
Structure-Function Studies of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels in Heart and Nerve
Metabolic Disease Focus Area
Ming Cui Gong, PhD, MD
Signal Transduction in Vascular Smooth Muscle
Lance Johnson, PhD
ApoE, brain metabolism and cognition
Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian PhD
Role of Sphingolipid Signal Transduction Pathway in Animal Aging
Neuroscience Focus Area
Francisco Andrade, PhD
Development and aging of cranio-facial and respiratory muscles
Erhard Bieberich, PhD
Lipid Biochemistry
Steven Estus, PhD
Molecular Genetics of Alzheimer Disease
Gregory Frolenkov, PhD
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hearing
John Carib Gensel, PhD
Neuroinflammation in Spinal Cord and Brain Injury
Lance Johnson, PhD
ApoE, Brain Metabolism and Cognition
Lu-Yuan Lee, PhD
Airway hypersensitivity; TRPV Channels in the Airways
Timothy McClintock, PhD
Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics of Olfaction, Neural Regeneration, and Spinal Cord Injury
Alexander Rabchevsky, PhD
Genetic, Biochemical and Cellular Approaches for Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury
Kathryn Saatman, PhD
Pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury
Donna Wilcock, PhD
Role of Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics