Faculty Experts

Dr. Bulik’s research teams at UNC (Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders-CEED) and Karolinska Institutet (Centre for Eating Disorders Innovation-CEDI) are dedicated to deepening our understanding of the underlying biology and genetics of eating disorders and to advancing the evidence base for the treatment of these illnesses. As founder and...

Otology, neurotology, lateral skull base surgery, acoustic tumors, cochlear implants, hearing preservation.

My research lab focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of endometrial cancer, the most common gynecologic cancer in the Western world.  Current projects include developing molecular diagnostics for predicting endometrial cancer histotype, stage, and recurrence developing clinical and lab-based algorithms for the identification of patients with hereditary endometrial cancer (Lynch Syndrome),...

Dr. Boucher’s lab has focused on the normal physiology of airway surface liquids (ASL) and how this system fails in airways diseases, e.g., cystic fibrosis and COPD. The lab pursues a variety of investigations into the functions of airway epithelia in health and disease. In general terms, the lab focuses...

I am a general internist and primary care doctor. I study the relationship between health-related social needs, such as food insecurity, and health outcomes. My current work emphasizes interventions that address these needs as part of clinical care, and the health effects of policies that affect the distribution of unmet...

Mammalian platelets are small anucleate blood cells specialized to continuously monitor and preserve the integrity of the cardiovascular system (hemostasis). Platelet plug formation at sites of vascular injury depends on a high sensitivity of platelets towards agonists and a signaling machinery that facilitates a rapid shift from an anti-adhesive to a pro-adhesive state....

My research group is broadly interested in the application of sequencing technologies in medical genetics and genomics, using a combination of wet lab and computational approaches. As a clinician, I am actively involved in the care of patients with hereditary disorders, and the research questions that my group investigates have...

Bill’s general research interests are directed towards understanding particle deposition and clearance in the healthy and diseased lung. Having trained in both aerosol physics and pulmonary physiology, he has devoted much of his research efforts towards using aerosols as a tool for studying lung physiology, e.g. assessing therapeutic benefits of...

Luther Bartelt is an early investigator who studies intestinal infectious organisms with complex pathogenesis, namely Giardia and Cryptosporidium.  He has board certification in clinical Infectious Diseases, expertise in clinical and laboratory Tropical Medicine, and active care of immunocompromised patients. He completed an NIDDK-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship, and he is currently supported...

Dr. Barnes is a gastroenterologist and clinical investigator dedicated to improving the care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. He has a particular interest in improving outcomes for patients with inflammatory bowel disease who require a colectomy and an ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. Patients with an ileal pouch-anal anastomosis may experience...

Most of the research in our laboratory has used coronaviruses as models to study the genetics of RNA virus transcription, replication, persistence, and cross species transmission. We have also been using alphavirus vaccine vectors to develop novel candidate vaccines against caliciviruses.

The Cotter Lab has a long-standing interest in understanding molecular mechanisms used by bacteria to cause disease. We are especially interested in 1) how and why bacteria differentially regulate the expression of virulence factor-encoding genes in response to the various environments they encounter throughout the infectious process, and 2) the...