Paul Lanier, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Children’s mental health services research, Medicaid systems research, youth in foster care |
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AFFILIATIONS: Graduate Education, Psychiatry, Sheps Center for Health Services Research |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Bioinformatics, Comparative Effectiveness, Health Services, Mental illness, Pediatrics, Population-based, Quality and Patient Safety |
Tengfei Li, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research focuses mainly include developing statistical and machine learning approaches in neuroimaging and imaging genetics analyses, by integrating the statistical functional data analysis, dimens … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), Radiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Genetics, Imaging, Neurobiology, Pediatrics, Quantitative Biology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology |
Mingxia Liu, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Liu has a background in machine learning, pattern recognition, and medical image analysis, leading a wide range of research spanning biomedical image reconstruction, processing, analysis, and neur … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), Radiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Autism, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Imaging, Pathology, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
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 |
Adrian Marchetti |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We are a biological oceanography lab that performs inquiry-based science by combining physiological and molecular approaches in laboratory isolates and natural communities to investigate how marine mi … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Ecology, Genomics, Physiology |
Gregory Matera, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The research in our laboratory focuses on foundational mechanisms that regulate eukaryotic gene expression. In particular, we are interested in the roles played by RNAs and proteins in genetic … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students |
Daniel McKay, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My laboratory studies the mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation during development. |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students |
Jason D. Merker, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Merker Laboratory is focused on translating novel molecular biomarkers into clinical oncology practice. The overarching goal of this work is to improve the care and survival of patients with cance … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Clinical Trials, Computational Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Pathology, Translational Medicine |
Justin Milner, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab focuses on developing new and exciting approaches for enhancing the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. We utilize cutting-edge genomics, bioengineering, computational, and immunologica … Read more |
| Mentors: | Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Immunology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Translational Medicine, Virology |
Karen L. Mohlke, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We identify genetic variants that influence common human traits with complex inheritance patterns, and we examine the molecular and biological mechanisms of the identified variants and the genes they … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Medicine |
Saskia Neher |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab seeks to better understand the maturation and regulation of a group of human lipases. We aim to uncover how these lipases properly fold and exit the ER, and how their activity is subsequently … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, McAllister Heart Institute |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular Biology, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology |






