Alain Laederach |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Laederach Lab is interested in better understanding the relationship between RNA structure and folding and human disease. We use a combination of computational and experimental approaches to study … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Biology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Molecular Biology, Systems Biology |
Rita Lahlou, MD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My clinical care consists of adult inpatient medicine and outpatient primary care across ages. Areas of clinical interest/expertise include addiction medicine, and care for adolescents and adults with … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Family Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Autism, Health Equity, Pediatrics |
Sam Lai, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our dynamic group are broadly involve in three topics: (i) prevention of infectious diseases by harnessing interactions between secreted antibodies and mucus, (ii) immune response to biomaterials, and … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomaterials, Biophysics, Drug Delivery, Immunology, Nanomedicine, Pathogenesis & Infection |
Prem Lakshmanane, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Research in my laboratory has three interlinked focus areas: 1. IMMUNE RESPONSE TO INFECTION AND VACCINATION: Cutting-edge approaches to evaluate coronavirus and arbovirus antibody responses in … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Virology |
David S. Lalush, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Lalush has a primary focus on human-subject imaging research using PET, MRI, and X-ray CT. Currently, his active areas include PET-MRI neuroimaging, quantitative orthopaedic MRI imaging, and PET-M … Read more |
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 |
Christine Lathren, MD, MSPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research centers on learning how mindfulness and self-compassion promotes healthy caregivers, parenting behaviors, stress responses, and child development. I enjoy using qualitative techniques in o … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Pediatrics, Quality of Life |
Jennifer Law, MD, MSCR |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Turner Syndrome Prader Willi Syndrome Bone Health Disorders |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Pediatrics |
David Lawrence, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research program is multifaceted, encompassing the fields of organic and peptide synthesis, photochemistry, enzymology, cell and molecular biology, microscopy, and the application of drug delivery … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cardiovascular disease, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Drug Delivery |
Rebekah Layton, PhD, CMC, PCC |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Other UNC Center and/or Department Affiliation: UNC School of Education Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: Biomedical workforce development Dr. Layton is an education researcher whose re … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Graduate Education, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Education Research, Immunology, Microbiology |
Helen Lazear, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Flavivirus pathogenesis -Immune mechanisms that control Zika virus and other congenital infections -Zika virus infection in the female reproductive tract -Host genetic determinants of neuroinvasive fl … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Global Health, Immunology, Microbiology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Virology, Women's Health |
Andrew L. Lee, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We study protein structure and dynamics as they relate to protein function and energetics. We are currently using NMR spectroscopy (e.g. spin relaxation), computation, and a variety of other biophysic … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Pharmaceutical Sciences |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Computational Biology, Structural Biology |






