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Albert S. Baldwin Jr., PhD

  • Professor

  • Department of Biology, UNC-CH

  • jhall@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Regulation of gene expression, and control of oncogenesis and apoptosis

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Amir Khandani, MD, PhD

  • Associate Professor

  • Director of PET, Nuclear Medicine

  • Department of Radiology, UNC-CH

  • khandani@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests: Effect of carbohydrate content of food on cardiac uptake on 18-F FDG PET, estradiol and GW572016 in metastatic breast cancer, non-invasive approaches to assessing inflammation.

 

Aysenil Belger, PhD

  • Associate Professor and Director of Neuroimaging Research

  • Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, UNC-CH

  • abelger@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Functional neuroanatomy of executive functions, attention and information selection; Prefrontal cortex, fronto-striate circuitry in action monitoring, selection, and inhibition; Neuroanatomy of executive function deficits in schizophrenia and autism.actin-based cell motility.

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Bryan Roth, MD, PhD

  • Professor

  • Departments of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, UNC-CH

  • bryan_roth@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  The study of all aspects of GPCR structure and function ranging from the atomic-level analysis of ligand-receptor interactions to in vivo studies.

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Cam Patterson, MD

  • Henry A. Foscue Distinguished Professor

  • Professor of Pharmacology, and Cell & Developmental Biology     

  • Director, Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center

  • Department of Medicine, UNC-CH

  • cpatters@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  angiogenesis, vascular development, cardiac failure, and atherosclerosis, with a particular interest in understanding the genes that regulate angiogenesis, identifying stress-responsive genes that modify cardiac function, and characterizing oxidative pathways in atherogenesis.

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Elizabeth Bullitt, M.D.

Eric T. Everett, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Pediatric Denistry, UNC-CH
  • School of Denistry and The Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
  • Eric_Everett@denistry.unc.edu
  • Research Interests:  Acquired and congenital disorders of craniofacial/oral/dental development.

 

Gary L. Johnson, PhD

  • Professor and Chair

  • Department of Pharmacology, UNC-CH

  • glj@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Signaling networks controlling cell function and disease.

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James Bear, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

  • Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UNC-CH

  • jbear@email.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Actin-based cell motility.

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James E. Faber, PhD

  • Professor

  • Department of  Cell and Molecular Physiology, UNC-CH

  • jefaber@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Vascular imaging in mouse, collaterogenesis, angiogenesis, vascular development, ischemic disease

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Jianping Liu, PhD

J. Keith Smith, MD, PhD

  • Associate Professor

  • Department of Radiology, UNC-CH

  • jksmith@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  physiologic imaging and brain tumors.

     

     

Joe Piven, M.D.

  • Professor

  • Department of Psychiatry, UNC-CH

  • jpiven@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  The pathogenesis of autism including neural mechanisms, genetic basis and neuropsychological and behavioral phenotype.

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John H. Gilmore, MD

  • Professor

  • Department of Psychiatry, UNC-CH

  • jgilmore@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  brain development and risk for schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Jordan B. Renner, M.D.

  • Professor

  • Departments of Radiology and Allied Health Science, UNC-CH

  • jbrenner@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Musculoskeletal Imaging & Pathology

     

     

Joseph DeSimone, PhD

  • William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

  • Department of Chemistry, UNC-CH and

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, NCSU

  • desimone@unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Polymer synthesis in supercritical fluids; surfactant design for applications in interfacial chemistry.

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Julia Fielding, MD

  • Associate Professor

  • Chief of Abdominal Imaging

  • Department of Radiology, UNC-CH

  • julia_fielding@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Benign and malignant disease of the genitourinary tract.  Multidisciplinary work with colleagues in urology, gynecology and pathology have resulted in numerous  publications on renal stone detection, CT virtual reality of the bladder for cancer detection and MR  imaging of the abnormal female pelvic floor.

     

     

Julian G. Rosenman, M.D., PhD

  • Professor

  • Departments of Radiation Oncology, UNC-CH

  • rosenman@cs.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  High performance computing in radiation cancer treatment and real-time display of 3d radiation doses.

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Klaus Hahn, PhD

  • Ronald Thurman Distinguished Professor

  • Department of Pharmacology, UNC-CH

  • khahn@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Tools to Study Signaling Dynamics, Cell Biology and Pharmacology.

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Michael Chua, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

  • Department of Cell & Molecular Physiology, UNC-CH

  • mchua@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Development of novel light microscopy and imaging technologies for cell biology and physiology; development of image quantization techniques and their application to biomedical research.

     

     

Morris Weinberger, PhD

  • Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Quality Management,

  • Department of Health Policy and Administration, UNC-CH

  • mweinber@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Health services research, Primary Care, Patient-centered outcomes research, Pharmaceutical care, Quality of Care.

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Myron S. Cohen, MD

  • J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine

  • Department of Medicine in Microbiology, Immunology and Public Health, UNC-CH

  • mscohen@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests: Biology of transmission and prevention of transmission of STD pathogens, including HIV.

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Paul A. Dayton, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • UNC-NCSU Biomedical Engineering
  • padayton@bme.unc.edu
  • Research Interests: Ultrasound contrast imaging, molecular imaging of angiogenesis, ultrasound-mediated therapeutics, high-speed optical microscopy
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Paul L. Molina, MD

 

R. Balfour Sartor, MD

  • Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medicine, Digestive Diseases and Nutrition

  • Director, Multidisciplinary Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Research and Treatment

  • Department of Medicine, UNC-CH

  • rbs@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Etiology and pathogenesis of IBD, in particular Crohn’s diseases, and associated extraintestinal manifestations; study of EGFR family members, particularly their role in breast cancer pathogenesis and response to radiotherapy.

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Richard C. Boucher, MD

  • Kenan Professor

  • Dept. of Medicine, UNC-CH

  • rboucher@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Mechanisms of innate defense of mucosal surfaces from bacterial and viral infections; pathogenesis and therapy of cystic fibrosis using multiply modeling systems; and direct testing in human subjects.

 

Richard H. Feins, MD

  • Professor

  • Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

  • Department of Surgery, UNC-CH

  • Research Interests:  General thoracic and esophageal surgery; lung cancer and esophageal cancer; thoracic oncology.

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Ronald Falk, MD

  • DJ Thurston Distinguished Professor of Nephrology

  • Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • Department of Medicine, UNC-CH

  • ronald_falk@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Glomerular disease, lupus, vasculitis, ANCA mediated disease.

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Sally C. Stearns, PhD

  • Associate Professor

  • Departments of Health Policy and Administration, UNC-CH

  • sally_stearns@unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Health service reimbursement systems, health insurance, use of health services by the chronically or terminally ill, and cost-effectiveness of health interventions.

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Terry Magnuson, PhD

  • Sarah Graham Kenan Professor Chair

  • Director, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences

  • Department of Genetics, UNC-CH

  • tm4@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  Mammalian Genetics/Genomics/Development/Mouse Models of Human Disease.

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Terry Van Dyke, PhD

  • Professor

  • Departments of Medicine and Genetics, UNC-CH

  • tavandy@email.unc.edu

  • Research Interests: Molecular Biology and Biological Strategies of Cancer Genes.

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Timothy C. Nichols, MD

  • Professor

  • Departments of Medicine and Pathology, UNC-CH

  • Tim_nichols@med.unc.edu

  • Research Interests:  The role of von Willebrand factor in thrombosis and atherosclerosis. Current lab work focuses on the molecular biology of porcine von Willebrand factor.

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Valerie L. Jewells, DO

 

Victoria L. Bautch, PhD

  • Professor
  • Department of Biology, UNC-CH
  • bautch@med.unc.edu
  • Research Interests:  The molecules and processes that control development in the mouse.
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Karen M. Grewen, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychiatry, UNC-CH
  • karen_grewen@med.unc.edu
  • Research Interests:  The neurobiology of social affiliation; the influence of prenatal drug abuse on physiological correlates of mother-infant attachment.

 

Bonita L. Marks, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Exercise and Sport Science, UNC-CH 
  • marks@email.unc.edu
  • Research Interests:  Neurobiology of aging and exercise- the interaction between aging, exercise, brain structure and function, especially as it relates to cognitive decline and/or functional maintenance.
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Laurence M. Katz, MD

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Department of Emergency Medicine, UNC-CH 
  • lkatz@email.unc.edu
  • Research Interests:  Cerebral Resuscitation, therapeutic hypothermia, trauma resuscitation, blood substitutes, effects of exercise on the aging brain, neuroimaging, acute brain injury in adults and children.
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Jonathan Fitzsimmons,  PhD

  • Research Associate
  • School of Pharmacy, Molecular Pharmaceutics, UNC-CH 
  • jfitzsim@email.unc.edu
  • john.jmf635@gmail.com
  • Research Interests:  Development of radiotracers for imaging and therapy of disease, development of new methodologies and compounds for higher purity radiotracers and MRI contrast agents.

 

David S. Lalush, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC-CH and NC State University
  • lalush@bme.unc.edu
  • Research Interests: Molecular imaging with radionuclide probes, SPECT and PET imaging, X-ray micro computed tomography and tomosynthesis, tomographic reconstruction algorithms, image processing in temporal and spatial domains.
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Joe Hopfinger, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Psychology
  • hopfinger@unc.edu 
  • Research Interests: fMRI and ERP investigations of selective attention and attentional control; the influence of memory on attentional allocation;  and the neural bases of social cognition and dysfunction.

 

 

 
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