Zongchao Han, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am trained in neuroscience with specialty in viral and non-viral nano-biomaterials-mediated gene/drug therapy. My research focuses on the use of nanotechnologies and biocompatible materials to devel … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Ophthalmology, Pharmaceutical Sciences |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Nanomedicine, Pharmacology |
Mark Heise, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We study alphavirus infection to model virus-induced disease. Projects include 1) mapping viral determinants involved in encephalitis, and 2) using a mouse model of virus-induced arthritis to identif … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Virology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Genetics, Genomics |
Andrea Horimoto, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research focuses on population genetics, genetic epidemiology, and statistical genetics, with a particular focus on Alzheimer’s disease and cardiometabolic conditions, including stroke and c … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic Kidney Disease, Computational Biology, Diabetes, Genetics, Obesity, Population-based, Women's Health |
Folami Ideraabdullah, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Ideraabdullah lab uses a combination of molecular biology and omics approaches to study how gene-environment interactions in the fetal/developmental environment modulate the epigenome to program t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Nutrition, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Developmental Biology, Diabetes, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Global Health, Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Toxicology |
Samir Kelada, PhD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Broadly speaking, my research interests lay in the arena of gene-environment interactions (GxE) in obstructive respiratory diseases. I view the identification and characterization of GxE as a means by … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma & Lung Biology (CEMALB), Genetics, Marsico Lung Institute, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Genetics, Pulmonary, Toxicology |
William Kim, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research explores the role of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) in tumorigenesis. HIF is a transcription factor that plays a key role in oxygen sensing, the adaptation to hypoxia and the tumor microe … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology, Urology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Translational Medicine |
Beverly Koller |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We have used gene targeting to generate an animal model for the most common genetic disease in the Caucasian population, cystic fibrosis. We are continuing to characterize this animal and to modify it … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Marsico Lung Institute |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Genetics, Pathology |
Yun Li, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Yun Li group develops statistical methods and computational tools for modern genetic, genomic, and epigenomic data. We do both method development and real data applications. The actual projects in … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computational Biology, Genetics, Genomics |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology |
Paul S. Maddox |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research program is centered on understanding fundamental aspects of cell division. During cell division, complex DNA-protein interactions transform diffuse interphase chromatin into discrete mitot … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Biology, Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biophysics, Cell Biology |
Amy Shaub Maddox |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research philosophy is summed up by a quote from Nobelist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: “Discovery is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody has thought.” My lab studies the molecular and … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biology, Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology |



