Organization: UNC / UNC Health

Dr. Maria Díaz-González de Ferris received her medical doctorate degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, a master’s degree in public health as well as a PhD in the field of epidemiology from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She completed her Pediatrics training at Driscoll Children’s...

  Dr. Kashuba is a globally recognized pharmacist, pharmacologist and translational scientist. She leads a research laboratory focused on optimizing antiretroviral pharmacology in the treatment, prevention, and eradication of HIV infection and serves as co-Principal Investigator of the UNC Center for AIDS Research. Her laboratory integrates cell culture, animal models...

  1. 1. My early publications focused on the neuropsychological effects of manganese overexposure in humans. These found clear relationships between occupational (among welders) exposure and motor and generalized cognitive effects. My dissertation was part of a larger EPA-funded study looking into environmental exposure to manganese in citizens living near...

  I am an Infectious Diseases physician specializing in the care of patients with compromised immune systems. I am interested in how intestinal microbiome-host interactions impact infectious complications and other outcomes in patients with hematologic malignancies. I am also investigating the role of non-canonical resistance mechanisms such as tolerance and...

  My clinical and research interest is health and development of individuals born extremely preterm.

  Clinical: GI/liver and global pathology Research: Diagnostic capacity strengthening in low-resource settings. Translational team science in GI/liver tumors.

  My research program incorporates informatics and data science approaches to tackle mechanistic and clinically oriented questions about neurodegeneration in the human brain. The overarching goal of my research program is to advance the mechanistic understanding of neurodegeneration, while also contributing to the development of diagnostic, prognostic, and stratification biomarkers...

The Heinzen Lab focuses on the identification and functional characterization of rare genetic variants that cause epilepsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The lab uses cutting-edgesequencing approaches to identify germline and somatic variants that cause epilepsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Building on gene discoveries across the field, we study human induced pluripotent stem cell derived neuronal models and use novel single cell approaches to study human brain tissue to understand how the disease-causing variants alter the developing brain. Working closely with family foundations and networks...

  Disability, Difference, Narrative Medicine, Mixed Methods Research, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Mental Health Policy, First Person Illness Experience Literatrue

  Educational assessment tools, specifically in medical graduate education Regional anesthesia – techniques, improvement in acute pain,

  The research in our laboratory focuses on foundational mechanisms that regulate eukaryotic gene expression. In particular, we are interested in the roles played by RNAs and proteins in genetic information transfer and cellular memory. Over the years, our work has shifted from structure-function cell biological studies toward molecular genetic...