Curriculum Member Profiles
- Trevor Archer
- Molecular carcinogenesis: cancer, chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics
- Louise Ball
- Toxicology of food additives, contaminants and environmental pollutants
- Linda Birnbaum
- Pharmacokinetic behavior of environmental chemicals, mechanisms of action of toxicants including endocrine disruptors, and linking of real-world exposures to health effects
- Thomas Bouldin
- Cellular response to toxic injury in the central and peripheral nervous systems; neuropathology; ocular pathology; and pathology of peripheral neuropathies
- Kim Brouwer
- Hepatobiliary xenobiotic disposition, hepatotoxicity and pharmacokinetics
- Ronald Cannon
- Early events in skin tumor development
- Martha Sue Carraway
- In vitro and translational approaches to studying the mechanisms of endothelial and vascular injury in response to inhaled air pollutants, including activation of coagulation and reactive oxygen species generation.
- Frank Church
- Breast and prostate carcinogenesis, macromolecular structure-function, molecular pathology
- Kevin Crofton
- Understanding the consequences of endocrine disruption on neurodevelopment
- William Coleman
- Molecular pathogenesis of liver and breast cancer, and liver progenitor cell biology
- Marila Cordeiro-Stone
- DNA replication, DNA repair, and cell cycle checkpoints in human cells; mechanisms of carcinogenesis by solar radiation; pathogenesis of melanoma
- Daniel Costa
- Mechanisms of air pollutant-induced adverse cardiopulmonay and neurophysiological health effects
- Channing Der
- The role of the ras oncogne, ras-mediated signalling and ras-related small GTPases in cancer and development of anti-ras inhibitors
- Mohanish Deshmukh
- Regulation of programmed cell death in postmitotic, senescent, neoplastic and stem cells.
- Michael DeVito
- Pharmacokinetics and mechanisms of chemical-mediated toxicity and carcinogenicity
- Robert Devlin
- Pulmonary toxicology and molecular biology
- David Diaz-Sanchez
- Environmental impacts on human health, genetic susceptibility, immunology, epigenetics, translational research
- Kevin Dreher
- Development of alternative testing methods predictive of in vivo cardiovascular toxicity of chemicals and engineered nanomaterials.
- Aimen Farraj
- Mechanisms of health effects of environmental pollution on cardiopulmonary function, animal models of cardiovascular diseases, targeted and high throughput technology
- Suzanne Fenton
- Epidermal growth factor receptor and its ligands and signaling mechanisms of endocrine disrupting toxicants in the mammary gland
- Michael Fessler
- Mechanisms of induction and regulation of the innate immune response, with a focus on Toll like Receptors (TLRs).
- Rebecca Fry
- Toxicogenomic and systems biology approaches to understanding the mechanisms of metal-induced disease and the basis for inter-individual disease susceptibility
- Ian Gilmour
- The interaction between air pollutant exposure and the development of infectious and allergic lung disease
- Avram Gold
- Chemistry of protein and DNA adducts
- Jean Harry
- Role of microglia in immune-mediated responses in brain development, repair, aging and disease
- Neil Hayes
- Lung carcinogenesis, research translation, biomarkers, computational toxicology
- Mehdi Hazari
- Neurophysiological mechanisms mediating cardiopulmonary dysfunction due to air pollution exposure.
- Michelle Hernandez
- Testing therapeutic interventions against pollutant-induced inflammation.
- Sidney Hunter
- Mechanisms of toxocant-induced craniofacial birth defects
- Ilona Jaspers
- Mechanisms by which air pollutants enhance susceptibility to and the severity of respiratory virus infections
- William Kaufmann
- Computational modeling of DNA repair and checkpoint pathways; systems of protection of genetic stability
- Steven Kleeberger
- Genetic determinants of environmental lung diseases
- Urmila Kodavanti
- Cardiovascular disease and susceptibility, air pollutants, cardiopulmonary interactions, molecular mechanisms, genetic and environmental factors
- Ed LeCluyse
- The use of in vitro cell-based hepatic culture models to investigate mechanisms of compound-induced hepatotoxicity.
- Robert Luebke
- Understanding the underlying mechanisms responsible for modulation of normal immune function by environmental agents and the development of alternative testing methods for screening/testing immunotoxicants.
- Jeffrey Macdonald
- Metabolomics, tissue engineering and systems biology
- Michael Madden
- Mechanisms of ambient air pollutant-induced cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality
- Nobuyo Maeda
- Genetics and molecular pathology of obesity, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension
- Terry Magnuson
- Mammalian Genetics/Genomics/Development/Mouse Models of Human Disease
- Leslie Morrow
- Neurotoxicology and excitotoxicity of alcohol
- Michael Narotsky
- Endocrinology of pregnancy and parturition and reproductive and developmental toxicity
- Leena Nylander-French
- Pharmacogenetics of detoxification pathways in skin and inhalation exposures to toxicants; mathematical and statistical exposure modeling for risk assessment
- Mary Paine
- Drug xenobiotic metabolism, pharmacokinetics, drug xenobiotic interactions
- Campbell Patterson
- Vascular biology, angiogenesis, and protein folding and degradation
- David Peden
- Translational and clinical research in environmental lung disease
- Charles Perou
- Use of animal models to mimic findings of biological diversity in human cancers; develop predictive computational models to test new therapeutics specific for tumor subtypes
- Daniel Pomp
- Polygenic basis of complex traits and gene-environment interactions
- Scott Randell
- Airway epithelial cell biology, pulmonary innate immunity and transplant pathophysiology
- Ram Ramabhadran
- Neurotoxicological effects of environmental pollutants, cellular stress pathways
- Dale Ramsden
- Mechanisms of chromosome strand break repair
- Kimryn Rathmell
- Genetics of renal cell carcinoma
- Ivan Rusyn
- Environmental Genomics
- James Samet
- Cell and molecular mechanisms of inflammatory responses induced by inhalation of ambient air pollutants
- Aziz Sancar
- Biochemical mechanisms of nucleotide excision repair, DNA damage cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian rhythm
- Norman Sharpless
- Mechanisms of stem cell senescence; genetics of the INK4/ARF tumor suppressor locus in melanoma; melanoma therapeutics
- Miroslav Styblo
- Metabolic interactions of essential microelements, especially trace metals, with toxic metals and metalloids that contaminate food and drinking water
- Kathleen Sulik
- Birth defects, neuroteratology, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, high resolution magnetic resonance imaging
- James Swenberg
- Mechanisms of DNA damage and repair; molecular epidemiology; development of ultra-sensitive and specific methods for measuring chemical adducts in DNA and hemoglobin
- Nancy Thomas
- Molecular carcinogenesis, environmental toxicology, molecular epidemiology of melanomas, research translation, biomarkers
- Alexander Tropsha
- Biomolecular informatics; molecular structure-function modeling using statistical and machine learning approaches
- Cyrus Vaziri
- Control mechanisms of DNA replication during normal passage through an unperturbed cell cycle and in response to DNA-damaging agents
- Paul Watkins
- Mechanistic toxicology, hepatic toxicology, research translation, biomarkers
- Bernard Weissman
- Chromatin remodeling and epigenetic alterations in human cancers
- Carmen Williams
- Basic reproductive biology of early mammalian embryogenesis, epigenetics, and how the environment impacts reproduction.
- Elizabeth Wilson
- Mechanisms of androgen receptor (AR) regulation of gene transcription and cell proliferation in the human male and female reproductive tracts
- Lee Graves
- Milan Hazucha
- David Holbrook
- David Kaufman
- Gary Klinefelter
- Patricia Maness
- Axon Guidance and Signal Transduction in Nervous System Development
- Ronald Mason
- MaryJane Selgrade
- Stephanie Padilla
- David W. Threadgill
- Kenneth Tindall
- Gregory Travlos
- Rochelle Tyl
- Douglas Wolf
