Thomas Kash, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our work is focused on understanding the relationship between brain function and behavioral pathology associated with substance use disorder. Alcohol uae disorder, chronic pain and stress. |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Translational Medicine |
Angela Kashuba, BScPhm, PharmD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Kashuba is a globally recognized pharmacist, pharmacologist and translational scientist. She leads a research laboratory focused on optimizing antiretroviral pharmacology in the treatment, … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), Graduate Education, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease, Other, Pharmaceutical Sciences |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Trials, Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Imaging, Other, Pharmacology, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
Hengming Ke |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research focuses on the structure and function of medically important proteins from the crystallographic approach. The current topics include cycolphilin, calcineurin, heat shock protein 90 (hsp9 … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Medicine, Structural Biology, Translational Medicine |
Mehmet Kesimer, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The upper airways serve to clean inspired air from physical, chemical and pathological detritus that might damage the delicate peripheral airways where oxygen exchange is achieved. It is the heart of … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Marsico Lung Institute, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Translational Medicine |
William Kim, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research explores the role of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) in tumorigenesis. HIF is a transcription factor that plays a key role in oxygen sensing, the adaptation to hypoxia and the tumor microe … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology, Urology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Translational Medicine |
Adam J. Kimple, MD, PhD, FACS, FARS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am a surgeon scientist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. My clinic practice is centered around caring for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). My research group is centered aro … Read more |
Silvia M. Kreda, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Kreda’s lab studies mechanisms of delivery of therapeutic molecules in the lung and other extra-hepatic organs. The main goal is to develop novel and efficacious delivery strategies of therapeutic … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Department of Medicine (DOM), Marsico Lung Institute |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Gastrointestinal Biology, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Genomics, Imaging, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology, Pulmonary, Stem Cells, Translational Medicine |
Cherie M. Kuzmiak, DO, FACR, FSBI |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am a board-certified radiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with sub-specialty fellowship training in breast imaging. My primary interest is in breast imaging radiogenomics … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Radiology, Women's Health |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Clinical Trials, Computational Biology, Drug Discovery, Genomics, Global Health, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Imaging, Medical Education, Pathology, Population-based, Surgery, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
Zibo Li, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: As the Professor of Radiology and BRIC, my research has been focused on the development and validation of novel radiolabeling methods and multimodality molecular imaging probes for visualization and q … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), Chemistry, Lineberger Cancer Center, Radiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Aging/Geriatrics, Arthritis, Autism, Biochemistry, Biomaterials, Imaging, Nanomedicine, Prostate Cancer, Surgery, Translational Medicine |
Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Linnstaedt lab is interested in understanding mechanisms driving the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain following traumatic stress exposures with the goal of identifying novel therapeutic … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Anesthesiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Computational Biology, Drug Discovery, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Mental illness, Molecular Biology, Sleep, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine, Veteran’s Health, Women's Health |
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 |
Pengda Liu, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My laboratory investigates cell signaling networks—particularly protein post-translational modifications and protein–protein interactions—to identify novel drug targets and develop innovative t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Arthritis, Biochemistry, Biomaterials, Cancer, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Chronic Kidney Disease, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Mental illness, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine |






