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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Engineering, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Metabolism, Regenerative Medicine, Toxicology |
Nancie MacIver, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. MacIver is a physician scientist with a research interest in immunometabolism and a strong focus on basic science. Her laboratory is broadly interested in how changes in nutritional status (undern … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Nutrition, Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Immunology, Metabolism |
Brooke Matson, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine with a clinical focus in general diabetes and endocrinology and research interests in translational human physiology, specifically in t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Endocrinology & Metabolism, Department of Medicine (DOM) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Diabetes, Gastrointestinal Biology, Metabolism, Neurobiology, Obesity |
Heather McCauley, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The McCauley Lab is interested in how the food we eat changes our physiology. Rare, nutrient sensing cells in the intestine called enteroendocrine cells secrete hormones in response to environmental c … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, Center for GI Biology and Disease (CGIBD) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cell Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells, Translational Medicine |
John P. Morris IV, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We study the mechanisms connecting oncogenes and tumor suppressors with the biological transitions that underly step wise carcinogenesis and therapeutic response. We have a specific focus on how cance … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Developmental Biology, Drug Delivery, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Metabolism, Microscopy |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Trials, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Metabolism, Pediatrics |
Marianne Muhlebach, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am trained as a pediatric pulmonologist and have interests in bacteriology of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. This includes microbiome and anaerobic bacteria found in lungs of people with CF. Spe … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Marsico Lung Institute, Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Metabolism, Microbiology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Pulmonary |
Robert Nicholas, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I mostly focus on mechanisms of resistance in the pathogenic organism, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. At UNC, I have built a research group that has defined at the molecular level the mechanisms of chromosoma … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Drug Discovery, Immunology, Metabolism, Microbiology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Structural Biology |
Jonathan C. Schisler |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Schisler Lab is geared towards understanding and designing therapies for diseases involving proteinopathies- pathologies stemming from protein misfolding, aggregation, and disruption of protein qu … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pathology & Lab Medicine, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cardiovascular Biology, Genomics, Metabolism, Neurobiology, Translational Medicine |
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AFFILIATIONS: Nutrition |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Biology, Immunology, Metabolism, Translational Medicine |
Patrick J. Smith, PhD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Patrick Smith is a lifelong North Carolinian, having grown up in the Chapel Hill – Durham area. His training background has focused within three primary domains: behavioral medicine, neuropsycholo … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Behavior, Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Metabolism, Rehabilitation, Sleep |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Cell Biology, Imaging, Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Orthopaedics, Stem Cells |






