Translational Biomedical Sciences Graduate Faculty
View all of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University's Translational Biomedical Sciences Graduate faculty, organized by area of expertise.
Biological and Biochemical Faculty
| Name | Areas of Expertise |
|---|---|
| Cory Baumann | Exercise Physiology, Aging, Myopathies, Skeletal Muscle Performance |
| Fabian Benencia | Immunology, Cancer |
| Stephen Bergmeier | Chemistry, Drug Discovery |
| Darlene Berryman | Obesity, Nutrition, Growth hormone, Adipose tissue, Diabetes, Endocrinology |
| Microbiology, Pathogenesis, Genetics | |
| Mario Grijalva | Tropical Diseases, Parasitology, Blood Bank Safety, International Research, Research Capacity Development |
| Jennifer Hines | RNA Drug Discovery |
| John Kopchick | Acromegaly, Aging, Cancer, Diabetes, Growth Hormone Receptor Antagonists, Insulin |
| Obesity, Diabetes, Adipose Tissue | |
| Chunmin Lo | Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Behavioral neuroscience, Energy/lipid/glucose homeostasis |
| Ramiro Malgor | Wnt signaling, Atherosclerosis, Bladder Cancer |
| Kelly McCall | Role of chronic inflammation in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and novel therapeutic development |
| Erin Murphy | Bacterial Pathogenesis, Gene Regulation, Molecular Biology |
| Sonia Najjar | Diabetes, Fatty Liver Disease, Cardiovascular Complications |
| Corinne Nielsen | Vascular Abnormalities, Molecular Genetics, Neuroscience |
| Craig Nunemaker | Diabetes, Islets, Low-grade inflammation, Beta-cell failure, Metabolism, Drug discovery |
| Vishwajeet Puri | Diabetes, Fatty Liver Disease, Adipocyte Metabolism |
| Tom Rosol | Cancer and Metastasis; Endocrine and Bone Diseases; Pathology; Animal Models; Drug Discovery |
| Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Cell and Molecular Biology, Lipid metabolism, Insulin signaling, Adipose tissue | |
| Shaohua Wang | Clostridioides difficile infection; Gut microbiome; Probiotics |
| Lonnie Welch | Bioinformatics |
| Biomechanics, Muscle Physiology, Comparative Anatomy | |
| Shiyong Wu | Photochemistry, Photobiology |
| Todd Young | Applied Dynamical Systems, Cell Population Models |
| Joint degeneration, Orthopedic biology |
Engineering Faculty
| Name | Area of Expertise |
|---|---|
| Doug Goetz | Biomedical engineering, Drug Discovery |
| Chang Liu | Software engineering, machine learning explainability |
| Brian Wisner | Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E) tools |
Musculoskeletal and Neurological Physiology Faculty
| Name | Area of Expertise |
|---|---|
| Robert Brannan | Food Science, Food Bioactives, Special interest in Asimina triloba |
| Brian Clark | Aging, Neuromuscular Physiology, Exercise Physiology |
| Mitchell Day | Neurophysiology, Hearing Loss |
| Neuroplasticity, Neuroimaging, Biomechanics | |
| Angela Hillman | Exercise Physiology, Sports Nutrition, Environmental Physiology |
| Jeff Russell | Performing Arts Medicine, Dance Medicine, Concussion |
| Janet Simon | Statistical methods, epidemiology, musculoskeletal injury, and patient-outcomes |
Social and Behavioral, Epidemiology Faculty
| Name | Area of Expertise |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Bates | Communication Health Campaigns and Messaging; Rhetoric of Health; Communication and International Health and Development |
| Liz Beverly | Behavioral diabetes, Psychosocial factors, Diabetes self-care, Qualitative methods |
| Ilana Chertok | Maternal-infant health, women's health, population health |
| Cory Cronin | Rural health care, Health systems, Social drivers of health, Hospital community benefit |
| Chris France | Pain, Psychological Stress, and Blood Donor Recruitment and Retention |
| Berkeley Franz | Rural health care, Health systems, Social drivers of health, Hospital community benefit |
| Rural health, mental health | |
| Emily Guseman | Pediatric obesity, Physical activity & physical fitness, Metabolic syndrome, Childhood |
| Zelalem Haile | Maternal-Infant-Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Population Health, Global Health |
| Allyson Hughes | Diabetes, disability, behavioral medicine, health policy |
| Anna Kerr | Communication, Caregiver burden, Chronic illness, Uncertainty, Stigma, Decision making |
| Gillian Ice | aging, stress, global health, caregiving |
| Nagesh Rao | intercultural communication competence |
| Anirudh Ruhil | Public health, public affairs, quantitative analysis |
| Alexander Sergeev | Cardiovascular disease, quantitative analysis |
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty cannot accept Ph.D. students.
| Name | Department | Area of Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Sharon Casapulla | Social and Behavioral, Epidemiology | Rural/Underserved, Medical Education, Resilience |
| Yong Han | Biological and Biochemical | n/a |
| Kevin King | Biological and Biochemical | n/a |
| Yunsheng Li | Biological and Biochemical | n/a |
| Ed List | Biological and Biochemical | Growth Hormone, Obesity, Weight Loss, Diabetes and Aging |
| M. Raquel Marchán-Rivadeneira | Biological and Biochemical | Genomics, Biodiversity, Drug Discovery, Natural Products |