Timothy Elston, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My lab integrates computational approaches, including mathematical modeling and quantitative image analysis, with experimental investigations to understand complex cellular behavior. We are par … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Computational Medicine Program, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biophysics, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Computational Biology, Systems Biology |
Michael Emanuele, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Emanuele lab studies the role of ubiquitin signaling and protein degradation in cell cycle , normal and cancer proliferation, and genome stability. We are focused on signaling that flows from E3 u … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Imaging, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Quantitative Biology, Systems Biology |
Michael B. Fessler |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Fessler laboratory investigates mechanisms of the innate immune response, in particular Toll like Receptor (TLR) pathways and how they regulate inflammatory and host defense responses in the lung. To … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma & Lung Biology (CEMALB), Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cell Signaling, Immunology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Translational Medicine |
Martina Gentzsch, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: A major goal of my studies is to uncover potential targets for therapy of chronic lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis (CF). I am a well-recognized expert in the cell biology of ion channels. Spec … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, Marsico Lung Institute, Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Gastrointestinal Biology, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Pulmonary, Stem Cells, Translational Medicine |
Jimena Giudice, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Alternative splicing is a posttranscriptional mechanism that explains how individual genes can produce more than one transcript due to the inclusion or exclusion of specific regions originating multip … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, McAllister Heart Institute |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cardiovascular Biology, Cardiovascular disease, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Genetics, Molecular Biology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Signaling, Computational Biology, Pharmacology, Quantitative Biology, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine |
Misty Good, MD, MS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Good Laboratory is focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of a devastating intestinal disease primarily affecting premature infants called necrotizing entero … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), Cell Biology & Physiology, Lineberger Cancer Center, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Mental illness |
Robert S. Hagan, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am an innate immunologist with a focus on pulmonary infections including viral (influenza, SARS-CoV-2) and bacterial (Streptococcus pneumoniae). My training background is in signaling biochemistry a … Read more |
Klaus Hahn, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab focuses on two synergistic areas: 1) developing methods to visualize and control protein activity in live cells and animals, and 2) applying these to address basic questions re spatio-t … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, Computational Medicine Program, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Imaging, Microscopy, Molecular Medicine |
Laura Herring, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Laura Herring is the Director of the UNC Proteomics Core Facility which provides mass spectrometry-based proteomics services for the analysis of proteins from tissues, cells or other biological sample … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Genetics, Immunology, Metabolism, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanomedicine, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Plant Biology, Quantitative Biology, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine, Virology |
Clyde Hodge, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our preclinical research is based on the concept that drugs of abuse gain control over behavior by hijacking molecular mechanisms of neuroplasticity within brain reward circuits. To understand this pr … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Bioinformatics, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Systems Biology |








