Zoe McElligott, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Research in the McElligott lab focuses on the circuits and plasticity that underlie the development and manifestation of psychiatric illness, specifically disorders on the affective spectrum including … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
Sean McLean, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Clinically I have a comprehensive pediatric surgery practice with key areas of expertise and focus in : chest wall deformities (Pectus excavatum and Pectus carinatum), congenital lung anomalies, ECMO … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: McAllister Heart Institute, Pediatrics, Surgery |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cardiovascular Biology, Cardiovascular disease, Cell Biology, Health Equity, Imaging, Nanomedicine, Physiology, Pulmonary, Surgery |
Virginie Papadopoulou, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: ENHANCE was established in 2024 as a new ultrasound lab between Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill. Led by Dr. Papadopoulou, our lab aims to advance biomedical ultrasound for huma … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), Radiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomedical Engineering, Drug Delivery, Imaging, Other, Physiology, Translational Medicine |
Raymond J. Pickles, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My laboratory, located in the Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center in the Thurston-Bowles building at UNC, is interested in how respiratory viruses infect the airway epithelium of t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Marsico Lung Institute, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Immunology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Physiology, Virology |
Silvia B. Ramos, MD, MS, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The research in the Ramos lab is focused on RNA-binding proteins and their physiopathological roles in vivo. Dr. Ramos has a broad medical and biochemical background, with specific training and … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Blood Research Center, Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cancer, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Computational Biology, Hematology, Physiology, Structural Biology, Translational Medicine |
Scott Randell, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Lung and Airway Biology and Disease, Innate Immunity, Stem Cells, Gene and Cell Therapy, Infectious Diseases, Cystic Fibrosis, Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, Head and Neck and Lung Cancer, Inhalation Tox … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center, Marsico Lung Institute, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Gene Therapy, Pathogenesis & Infection, Physiology, Pulmonary, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells, Toxicology |
Kathryn Reissner |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Research in our lab is focused on understanding how cocaine abuse affects glial cell physiology, in particular neuron-astrocyte communication. We utilize the rat cocaine self-administration/reinstate … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
Donita Robinson, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My scientific expertise lies in neural dynamics of corticostriatal circuits during motivated behavior and drug exposure in animal models. My current research focuses on the brain regions that orchestr … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Graduate Education, Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Systems Biology |
Greg Scherrer, PharmD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The primary mission of my laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie pain perception and its modulation by opioids. We investigate the sensory, affective, and cognitive dimensions of pain … Read more |
Jonathan Serody, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our laboratory is involved in studies to determine the mechanisms and proteins involved in the migration of alloreactive and regulatory T cells to organs involved in graft-versus-host disease after st … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Immunology, Pathology, Physiology |
Matthew Sharrock, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I work at the confluence of acute neurological injury, clinical informatics and clinical trials. My research looks at utilizing informatics processes and tools to make clinical trials in patients with … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neurology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Clinical Informatics, Clinical Trials, Physiology |
Natalie Shaw, MD, MMSc |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Natalie Shaw is a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and Head of the Pediatric Neuroendocrinology Group in the Clinical Research Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Scien … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Endocrinology & Metabolism, Department of Medicine (DOM), Pediatrics, Women's Health |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Pediatrics, Physiology, Sleep, Stem Cells, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |







