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Priya Mody, MD

February 15, 2026
Dr. Mody completed her internship in General Surgery at The Brooklyn Hospital Center (Brooklyn, NY), staying on for a second year of General Surgery training afterward. She subsequently completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Morristown Medical Center (Morristown, NJ). A North Carolina native, Dr. Mody returned to the University...

Kirsten L. Bryant, PhD

February 15, 2026
  The overall goal of our lab is to perform research that contributes to a better understanding of pancreatic cancer biology and leads to improved treatments for this disease. One major focus of our studies is the metabolic activity, autophagy, which is a self-degradation process whereby cells can orderly clear...

Nikki Keefe, MD

February 15, 2026
  Dr Keefe is the program director for the IR Integrated and IR Independent residencies as well as the Oncologic Imaging in Interventional Radiology Fellowship. Her research interests focus in complex venous disease, women’s health and vertebral augmentation.

Amanda E. Nelson, MD, MSCR

February 15, 2026
I am a board-certified internist and rheumatologist with a Master’s in Clinical Research in Epidemiology. I am clinically active, with a panel of general rheumatology patients, musculoskeletal ultrasound clinic, and inpatient consultation, and am involved in clinical training and research mentoring of students, residents, and fellows. My research is focused...

Crystal Schiller, PhD

February 15, 2026
  Dr. Schiller’s NIH-funded research program investigates how changes in ovarian steroid hormones contribute to depression and anxiety across the reproductive lifespan—from puberty through the menopause transition. Her work integrates neuroscience, endocrinology, and clinical psychology to identify the biological and behavioral mechanisms that underlie women’s mood symptoms. Dr. Schiller also...

William Polacheck, PhD

February 15, 2026
  The Polacheck Laboratory for Translational Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers who build microfluidic models of human tissues and organs-on-chip. Our organizing philosophy is to use engineering design and fabrication to understand how tissues are assembled and function in health and disease and to use these...

Matthew Eckert, MD, MHPE

February 15, 2026

Rebecca Traub, MD

February 15, 2026
  Natural history, translational and treatment trials for inflammatory and hereditary polyneuropathies

Klaus Hahn, PhD

February 15, 2026
  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-temporal control of signaling. Our biological studies center on the integration of invadopodia and adhesion dynamics in metastasis, and...

Virginie Papadopoulou, PhD

February 15, 2026
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 human performance. Our research interests are centered around ultrasound and microbubbles, their detection and gas physiology modulation in vivo,...

Koyal Jain, MD, MPH

February 15, 2026
Dr. Jain absolutely loves to work with patients with kidney diseases. Although her area of focus involves glomerular diseases and vasculitis, she enjoys taking care of all her patients. Dr. Jain believes in empowering her patients and involving them in decision making. She strongly supports her patients and their families...

Jason Whitmire, PhD

February 15, 2026
  My lab studies the underlying mechanisms that stimulate immune responses to virus infections. We characterize the molecular and host-genetic pathways that lead to antiviral T cell responses, as well as pathogenic outcomes to virus infection. We work with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) and HAV infections in mouse models to...