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Diana O. Perkins, MD, PhD

February 8, 2024
Dr. Perkins’ research activities include psychosis risk prediction and early intervention, as well as investigations of the genetic basis of schizophrenia. She is in the last year of the NIMH 2.9 million five-year multi-site U01 grant, 5/8-Predictors and Mechanisms of Conversion to Psychosis (NAPLS). Included in this project, Dr. Perkins...

Anne Peery, MD, MSCR

February 8, 2024
Dr. Peery is a board-certified gastroenterologist and clinical investigator. Her research is focused on understudied but common gastrointestinal diseases with a particular focus on diverticular disease. Her group has published original research in journals including Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, and Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr....

Rafal Pawlinski, PhD

February 8, 2024
Dr. Pawlinski is interested in the role of coagulation proteases in the pathology of hematologic and neurologic disorders. Over the last years, a significant part of his research effort has focused on sickle cell disease. Specifically, his group investigates the role of coagulation in the pathology of this disease, including...

Virginie Papadopoulou, PhD

February 8, 2024
Dr Papadopoulou is a physicist by background and received her PhD in Bioengineering in 2016 from Imperial College London. She became a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill in 2017, where her research aims to bridge the different areas dealing with bubbles and...

Olafur S. Palsson, PsyD

February 8, 2024
Dr. Palsson is a clinical psychologist and health researcher with a long-standing interest in the relationship between mind and body in the determination of health and illness. He is originally from Iceland. He received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1993, and completed post-doctoral...

Matthew Nielsen, MD, MS, FACS

February 6, 2024
Matthew Nielsen, MD received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Brady Urological Institute of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. After residency, Dr. Nielsen served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins prior to joining the UNC Urology faculty in 2009. In...

Hyman B. Muss, MD

February 6, 2024
My major area of interest is cancer care in older patients with a special focus on breast cancer. I also have a major interest in molecular aging and the role chemotherapy plays in this phenomenon.

Joseph Muenzer, MD, PhD

February 6, 2024
Dr. Muenzer is a pediatric geneticist and researcher, with special interest in congenital metabolic disorders such as Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS). His research includes: Progressive brain disease in children with MPS II, also known as Hunter Syndrome. Developing new avenues of treatment in children with MPS, including clinical trials to test new...

Matthew Milowsky, MD

February 6, 2024
Dr. Milowsky joined UNC to lead the Genitourinary Oncology Research Program with a focus on translational science and clinical trials for patients with urologic cancers including bladder, kidney, prostate and testicular cancer. His research focuses on the development of novel therapies for patients with urologic malignancies. He has a particular...

Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH

February 6, 2024
Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She also directs the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders. As Chair, Dr. Meltzer-Brody directs one of the largest public university departments of psychiatry...

Katharine McGinigle, MD, MPH

February 6, 2024
Peripheral Arterial Disease Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Precision Medicine

Panayiotis Mavroidis, PhD, DABR

February 6, 2024
Radiobiological/mathematical modeling of cancer cell survival curves Mathematical modeling of dose response curves for normal tissues and tumors Radiobiological optimization for conformal radiotherapy BIostatistics