Faculty
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Organogenesis in a model system: Formation of the Drosophila salivary gland and trachea
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
In-vivo biosensing, personalized drug therapy, molecular diagnostics
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Associate Professor
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Drug discovery for disorders of neurodevelopment.
Faculty
Professor
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Structural and molecular mechanisms of nucleic-acid machines and assemblies; control of DNA replication and chromosome superstructure
Faculty Advisory Board
Professor
Neuroscience
Synaptic Physiology: Glutamate Transporters and Glial Involvement in Neuronal Signaling
Faculty
Professor
Neuroscience
Molecular Basis of Neuronal and Glial Cell Fate Specification and Survival
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Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Cell Engineering
Computational and experimental exploration of gene regulatory networks in development, stem cell engineering, tumorigenesis and cancer progression
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences; Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Preclinical models of neurological and psychiatric disorders
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Professor, Biological Chemistry and the Center for Sensory Biology
Neuosurgery
TRP channel function in thermosensation, pain and inflammation
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Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Data science, signal processing, machine learning, computational neuroscience, computational imaging, cybernetics
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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, signal and image processing
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Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Decision-making, neuroeconomics, neural control of movement, functional brain imaging, noninvasive brain stimulation
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Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty
Molecular Biology and Comparative Pathobiology
Molecular Pathogenesis and Latency of SIV & HIV
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Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Mechanisms for Cell Diversification
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Director of Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility, Assistant Professor
Biological Chemistry
Mass spectrometry strategies to characterize proteins and their modifications in malnutrition, neurological diseases and cancer
Faculty
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Professor
RNA Biology and Therapeutics, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Messenger RNA Translation and Stability
Faculty
Professor and XDBio Director
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Fungal pathogenesis: the host-pathogen interaction for the yeast pathogen Candida glabrata
Faculty Advisory Board
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Multisensory integration for action and perception, neural mechanisms of motor learning, neural prosthesis and rehabilitation, computational neuroscience
Faculty
Associate Professor
Neuroscience
Circuit and Synaptic Mechanisms of Social Cognition in Health and Disease
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Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
Immunoengineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials/biomedical devices, controlled drug delivery, synthetic and systems biology, and automimmune, cancer, and infectious disease models
Faculty
Professor
Ophthalmology
Stem cells; Regenerative medicine; Biomaterials; Cornea repair; Biomaterials and stem cells for tissue engineering; Cartilage regeneration; Stem cell research; Regenerating tissue
Faculty
Professor, Graduate Biomedical Education Associate Dean
Cell Biology
Cellular regulation of cholesterol homeostasis and adaptation to hypoxia
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Professor, Department Director
Cell Biology
Mechanisms driving growth and development of normal epithelial cells; Cellular strategies driving cancer invasion and metastasis; Regulation of cancer progression by the tumor microenvironment
Faculty
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Epigenetics in development and disease
Faculty
Professor
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
biology, drug delivery, bacterial isoprenoid and vitamin and biosynthesis, design of anti-infective strategies
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
NMR studies of active enzymatic systems: dynamic molecular communication in Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases
Faculty
Associate Professor
Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Cardiovascular disease; Cancer; Pathology; Toxicology; Signal transduction; Cancer therapy
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Associate Professor
Neuroscience, Genetic Medicine
Single Cell Variation in Neural Development and Disease
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Associate Professor
Biological Chemistry
Bacterial Cell Biology; Cytokinesis; Morphogenesis; Cytoskeleton; Antibiotics; Stress Responses
Faculty Advisory Board
Professor
Biological Chemistry
Organelle biogenesis; Peroxisome biogenesis; Virology; Exosome biology; Exosomes and microvesicles (EMVs); Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Faculty
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Engineering functional craniofacial and orthopaedic constructs for use in therapeutic applications
Faculty
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Developing biomaterials; stem cells; nanobiotechnology to meet challenges in regenerative medicine; ophthalmology; cancer
Faculty
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Mechanisms of Ribosome Translation and Translational Control
Faculty
Professor and Director
Physiology
Genetic disorders associated with defective fluid and electrolyte movement; ion channel and epithelial transport physiology
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Infectious Disease Modeling; Evolutionary Dynamics; Viral Dynamics; HIV/AIDS; Drug Resistance
Faculty
Professor and Director
Neurology
Mechanisms of peripheral neuropathies; developing treatments for nerve regeneration and neuroprotection
Faculty
Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular mechanisms underlying accurate chromosome segregation and centrosome duplication
Faculty
Professor and Director
Neuroscience
Regulation of Neurotransmitter Receptors and Brain Function in Health and Disease
Faculty
Professor
Cell Biology
Synthetic cell biology: total synthesis of cellular functions such as neutrophil chemotaxis and ciliary mechano-sensation
Faculty
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Neuroscience
Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms underlying adaptive and maladaptive associative learning
Faculty
Professor and Co-Director
Biomedical Engineering
Systems neuroscience, brain development, in vivo imaging, neuroengineering, neurophysiology
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Professor
Physiology
Regulatory pathways that control adaptive metabolic responses in adipose and skeletal muscle tissues
Faculty
Associate Professor and Director
Biomedical Engineering
Mechanism of biological force generation, laser-induced optical forces
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Receptor-ligand interactions and conformational transitions using computational and experimental approaches
Faculty
Professor
Neuroscience
Cellular/Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity Underlying Memory Formation and Cross-Modal Plasticity
Faculty
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Cell Biology
Cellular Dynamics in space, time, and adaptation
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Associate Professor
Cell Biology
Theoretical Modeling, Mechanobiology, Cell Migration, Membrane Trafficking, Cell Division
Faculty
Professor and Co-Director
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Translational medicine; Molecular and cellular biology; Chemical biology
Faculty
Professor
Physiology
Proteomics; Animal models for Wilson disease, Menkes disease; Redox biology; Metal biology (copper, iron, zinc); Ion transport; Membrane proteins biochemistry; trafficking assembly regulation
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Biological Chemistry
Host-microbe Interactions, Microbiota, Bacterial Influences on Host Lipids and Neurotransmitters
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Computational modeling of growth factor-receptor networks, personalized medicine, therapeutic cardiovascular remodeling, novel methods for data visualization and automated image analysis
Faculty
Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry
Neuroscience
Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Formation in Development and Disease
Advisory Board Faculty
Professor, Assistant Director
Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Genetics basis of congenital malformations; Genetics of neurological, neuropsychiatric and neural-crest disorders; Transcriptional regulation in development and disease
Faculty
Associate Professor
Neuroscience
The Regulation of Neuronal Gene Expression in Health and Disease
Faculty
Professor
Cell Biology
Progeria and lamin A processing by the ZMPSTE24 protease; ERAD and cytosolic protein quality control; yeast and mammalian cell biology
Faculty
Professor and Director
Biomedical Engineering
Data science, computational neuroscience, medical imaging, computational anatomy, pattern theory
Faculty
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Neuroscience
Auditory Perception and Development of Neocortical Circuits
Faculty
Professor and Interim Director
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular mechanisms of retinal development and disease; the role of Frizzled receptors in mammalian development
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Biological Chemistry
Molecular dissection of host-pathogen interactions and the evolution of virulence strategies in natural reservoirs
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Sequence motif finding; Splice site prediction; Computational gene finding
Faculty
Associate Professor
Physiology
Elucidating the role of sensory receptors, such as olfactory receptors, in regulating renal function
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biological Chemistry
Mechanisms of signal transduction in immunity and cancer; antigen receptor signaling to NF-kappaB; Dysregulated signal transduction in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma; Regulation of NK Cell Maturation and Cytotoxicity; CRISPR/Cas9- based genetic screens in immunity and cancner.
Faculty
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Systems biology, computational medicine and biology, angiogenesis, cancer, immuno-oncology, peripheral arterial disease
Faculty
Associate Professor and Co-Director
Neuroscience
Genes and Neural Circuits Required for Insect Olfaction
Faculty
Professor
Biological Chemistry
Physiological functions of DGKs in neurons; Enzyme structure/function studies; Interfacial enzymology of lipid metabolizing signaling enzymes
Faculty
Professor and Director
Physiology
Ion transport in health and disease. Emerging roles for Ca2+ signaling and endosomal pH in cancer, autism and neurodegenerative disorders
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Biological Chemistry
Understanding how the nuclear periphery and other subcompartments contribute to general nuclear architecture and to specific gene regulation
Faculty
Associate Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Signaling Network Dynamics at Single Cell Level
Faculty
Professor
Cell Biology
Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Shape Control from Model Systems to Disease States
Advisory Board Faculty
Associate Professor
Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
HIV-1 persistence; HIV-1 cure; The HIV-1 antisense gene, ASP
Faculty
Distinguished Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Genome technology; Genome assembly; Gene finding; Bioinformatics; Genomics
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Computational neuroscience, estimation and control theory, applications to disorders of the central nervous system and brain machine interfaces
Faculty
Professor
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Neuroglycobiology; Glycobiology; Cell-cell interactions in the nervous system; Cell-cell interactions in the control of inflammation
Faculty
Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Genetics of Embryonic Polarity and Germ Cell Development
Faculty
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Mechanisms of movement control in humans, learning control of the arm, brain imaging, robotics and adaptive control, computational neuroscience
Faculty
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Medical imaging, image-guided surgery, interventional radiology, radiation therapy, 3D imaging, spectral imaging, CT, cone-beam CT, imaging physics, image quality, image registration
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Understanding how biological stress-sensors are assembled, detect danger signals, and initiate stress-response
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Medical imaging, device design and optimization, adaptive imaging, task-based acquisition, reconstruction, and estimation theory
Faculty
Associate Professor
Neuroscience
Research: Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Decision Making and Self-Control
Faculty
Associate Professor
Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Epigenetic pathways in disease, histone and chromatin modifications, and small RNA directed gene silencing
Faculty
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Medical instrumentation, neuroengineering, neural signal processing and clinical instrumentation, micro/nano scale sensors, devices and systems
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Development and application of sequencing technologies to explore biology and diagnose disease
Faculty
Professor and Director
Biomedical Engineering
Neurophysiology of the auditory cortex, neural mechanisms of speech perception and learning, computational neuroscience
Faculty
Associate Professor
Cell Biology
Cellular and molecular characterizations of rapid changes during synaptic plasticity
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
HIV; Central nervous system drug delivery; Neuroimmunology; Substance abuse
Faculty
Professor
Cell Biology
Nuclear envelope, lamins and nucleoskeleton; Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
synthesis and preclinical validation of biomaterials-based immunomodulatory therapies that bias the adaptive immune response towards immunity or tolerance
Faculty
Professor and Director
Biomedical Engineering
Statistical modeling and analysis of cardiovascular gene and protein expression data, and computational modeling of signal transduction, mitochondrial energetics, ion channel function, and intracellular calcium dynamics in cardiac myocytes and vascular endothelial cells
Faculty
Professor and Director
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Structural and molecular mechanisms of ubiquitin signaling and chromatin modification; regulation of transcription
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Single molecule imaging, RNA biology, neuroscience and gene expression
Faculty
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Chromatin remodeling as a fundamental regulator of gene activity
Faculty Advisory Board
Professor
Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Single-molecule and single-cell studies of cell division, chromosome conformation, transcription and gene regulation
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Biotechnology and clinical aspects of carbohydrate engineering
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology, BME
Biophotonics; Volumetric and Multimodal Imaging; Fiber Optics and Endoscopy; Structural and Functional Relation in Biological Systems; Early Detection and Monitoring of Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases; Imaging Biomarkers
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biological Chemistry
O-GlcNAc, A Novel Regulator of the Cellular Stress Response and Cell Survival
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Medical imaging, modeling and evaluation of imaging systems, CT algorithms, quantitative CT and cone-beam CT, imaging biomarkers of bone and joint health, musculoskeletal radiology
Faculty
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Theoretical and computational neuroscience, neural computation
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