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Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: Rare Diseases; Fibrosis I am a Pediatric Pulmonologist with a clinical and research focus on rare and interstitial lung diseases. Our research team’s laboratory studies fibroblast phenotype regulation in the context of fibrosis, both for improved understanding and development of novel therapies. We are also...

Dr. Kowitt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She received her MPH and PhD from the Department of Health Behavior in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Family Medicine at UNC. She was trained...

Our group studies the signaling and structural mechanisms employed by RAS superfamily GTPases to regulate critical cellular processes (e.g., proliferation, motility, morphogenesis and apoptosis) and how these GTPases act to promote human malignancies when deregulated. We use a combination of biochemical, biophysical, structural and cell biological approaches to fully elucidate...

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 developmental disabilities as they age out of pediatric care.

I am a physician scientist, board-certified gastroenterologist with expertise in managing difficult-to-treat patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and a mucosal immunologist/microbiologist with a long-term interest in understanding mechanisms by which resident microbiota induce chronic intestinal inflammation vs. mucosal homeostasis. My research develops and studies rodent models of chronic, immune-mediated...

My research agenda has been to establish an original, meaningful and coherent program of research in pain management, health outcomes and behaviors, and domains of health disparities and social determinants of health among diverse race and marginalized populations. Specifically, it is my intent to continue a line of research that...

Social science approaches to ethical and medical issues, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods

Dr. Dorey Glenn is a pediatric nephrologist and investigator in the field of glomerular disease. He primarily studies pneumococcal and influenza vaccine effectiveness and infection epidemiology in immunosuppressed populations. He is involved with multiple observational cohort studies of children and adults with kidney disease. He is also interested in pediatric...

Dr. Abramowitz is a geriatric psychiatrist specializing in older adults with mental health concerns and dementia.

My lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms cells use to bend and shape membranes, with a particular focus on membrane trafficking and vesicle coat formation. Our primary area of research is in clathrin-mediated endocytosis, with a smaller focus on understudied vesicle coats in the endosomal and lysosomal compartments. We...

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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 experience, and both the analgesic and side effects of opioids, including addiction and respiratory depression. Our experimental strategies use a...