Jennifer S. Smith, PhD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Jennifer S. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is an international leader in H … Read more |
Tam Sneddon, PhD, FACMG |
| Clinical / Research Focus: As Director of the Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core (https://www.med.unc.edu/genysis/), I work with clinical researchers to facilitate bioinformatic analysis, variant classification, an … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Clinical Informatics, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine |
Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Sickle Cell Disease, hematology, hemoglobinopathies, platelets, thrombosis, hemostasis, |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Hematology, Pathology, Physiology |
Joan M. Taylor, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The goal of our research is to identify signaling mechanisms that contribute to normal and pathophysiological cell growth in the cardiovascular system. We study cardiac and vascular development as we … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: McAllister Heart Institute, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cardiovascular Biology, Cell Signaling, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Pathology |
Melissa Troester |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Troester’s research focuses on stromal-epithelial interactions, genomics of normal breast tissue, breast cancer microenvironment, and molecular pathology of breast cancer progression. She is a Co- … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Nanomedicine, Pathology, Translational Medicine |
Cyrus Vaziri, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our broad long-term goal is to understand how mammalian cells maintain ordered control of DNA replication during normal passage through an unperturbed cell cycle, and in response to genotoxins (DNA-da … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Toxicology |
Bernard E. Weissman, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: How the loss of different components of the SWI/SNF complex contributes to neoplastic transformation remains an open and important question. My laboratory concentrates on addressing this question by t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology |
David C. Williams Jr, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We study epigenetic complexes involved in gene silencing using structural biology and biophysical techniques. The over-arching goal is to develop inhibitors of these complexes as molecular prob … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Structural Biology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Blood Research Center, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cancer, Cardiovascular Biology, Cardiovascular disease, Genetics, Molecular Medicine, Pathogenesis & Infection, Pathology, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
Melinda Yates, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research program is focused on cancers that form in the lining of the uterus (endometrium) with a particular emphasis on premalignant biology. My lab studies the earliest molecular changes t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer, Cancer Biology, Drug Delivery, Health Equity, Obesity, Other, Pathology, Pharmacology, Social Determinants of Health, Toxicology, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |





