Shawn Ahmed
Office: 216 Fordham Hall, CB 3280 | Phone: 919-843-4780 | Email
Prime Focus: The structure, function and evolution of genomes.
Faculty Members
Neil Alexis
Office: US EPA Human Studies Facility | Phone: (919) 966-1515 | Email
Prime Focus: Examining underlying mechanisms of lung disease, specifically examining innate immune responses and inflammatory processes in the airways. Also, examining these responses and processes in the context of how inhaled environmental irritants/toxicants produce detrimental effects in the cardiopulmonary system in susceptible populations.
Edward Bahnson
Office: 5109D Neuroscience Research Building | Phone: (919) 843-0842 | Email
Prime Focus: Cardiovascular biology, cell biology, drug delivery, nanomedicine, translational medicine.
Antonio Baines
Office: 2253 Mary M. Townes Science Building - NCCU | Phone: (919) 530-6542 | Email
Prime Focus: Validate novel molecular targets (ex. oncogenic PIM kinases) for potential therapeutic intervention in pancreatic cancer and other cancers as well as test novel kinase inhibitors in combination with chemotherapy to combat drug resistance.
Erin Baker
Office: Caudill Laboratories 017 | Phone: (919) 445-1189 | Email
Prime Focus: How the Environment Affects Human Health, Molecular Biomarkers, Analytical Separations, High Throughput Screening, Mass Spectrometry, and Ion Mobility Spectrometry.
Kim Brouwer
Office: 100 L Beard Hall | Phone: (919) 962-7030 | Email
Prime Focus: Hepatobiliary xenobiotic disposition, hepatotoxicity and pharmacokinetics.
Brian Chorley
Office: Environmental Protection Agency - RTP | Phone: (919) 541-2329 | Email
Prime Focus: Cell Biology, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Systems Biology, Toxicology.
Leon Coleman Jr.
Office: 1007C Thurston Bowles Building | Phone: 919-966-0501 | Email
Prime Focus: Immune contributions to disease, extracellular vesicles, neurotoxicology, trauma.
Elizabeth Corteselli
Office: UNC Department of Pediatrics, 260 MacNider Hall | Phone: (919) 966-1505 | Email
Prime Focus: Adverse respiratory effects caused by oxidative stress using innovative experimental models and state-of-the-art techniques.
Hisham El-Masri
Office: Environmental Protection Agency - RTP | Phone: (919) 541-1302 | Email
Prime Focus: Computational Toxicology, Quantitative Adverse Outcome Pathway Models, Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Modeling, Mixtures Toxicology.
Aimen Farraj
Office: Environmental Protection Agency - RTP | Phone: (919) 541-5027 | Email
Prime Focus: Mechanisms of health effects of environmental pollution on cardiopulmonary function, animal models of cardiovascular diseases, targeted and high throughput technology.
Suzanne Fenton
Office: National Institute of Environmental Sciences - Durham | Phone: (984) 287-4182 | Email
Prime Focus: Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, Environmental Health, Endocrine Disruption, Cancer Susceptibility.
Kelly Ferguson
Office: National Institute of Environmental Science - RTP | Phone: (984) 287-3700 | Email
Prime Focus: The relationship between environmental exposures in pregnancy and their associations with adverse birth outcomes as well as long-term sequelae in the mother and child. Using advanced molecular epidemiologic and statistical methods, I work to identify important contributors to the diseases of pregnancy and implement preventions to improve maternal and child health.
Stephen Ferguson
Office: National Institute of Environmental Health Science - RTP | Phone: (984) 287-3128 | Email
Prime Focus: New approach method (NAM) development and qualification for translational toxicology research.
Michael Fessler
Office: D240 Rall Building | Phone: (984) 287-4081 | Email
Prime Focus: Mechanisms of induction and regulation of the innate immune response, with a focus on Toll like Receptors (TLRs).
Rebecca Fry
Office: 166A Rosenau Hall | Phone: (919) 843-6864 | Email
Prime Focus: Toxicogenomic and systems biology approaches to understanding the mechanisms of metal-induced disease and the basis for inter-individual disease susceptibility.
Ian Gilmour
Office: EPA Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment - RTP | Phone: (919) 541-0015 | Email
Prime Focus: The interaction between air pollutant exposure and the development of infectious and allergic lung disease.
Avram Gold
Office: 157 Rosenau Hall | Phone: (919) 966-7304 | Email
Prime Focus: Chemistry of protein and DNA adducts.
Currently not taking student rotations.
Jean Harry
Office: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - RTP | Phone: (984) 287-4183 | Email
Prime Focus: Role of microglia in immune-mediated responses in brain development, repair, aging and disease.
Mehdi Hazari
Office: United States Environmental Protection Agency - RTP | Phone: (919) 541-4588 | Email
Prime Focus: Neurophysiological mechanisms mediating cardiopulmonary dysfunction due to air pollution exposure.
David Herr
Office: US Environmental Protection Agency | Phone: 919-541-0380 | Email
Prime Focus: Neurotoxicology, Neurophysiology, Behavior, In Vitro – In Vivo Extrapolation, Developmental Neurotoxicity, Adverse Outcome Pathways, Mixtures.
Erin Hines
Office: US Environmental Protection Agency | Phone: (919) 541-4204 | Email
Prime Focus: Epidemiology, Laboratory Animal work, Molecular Biology, Cell Culture, Federal Policy on Air Quality and Drinking Water. Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Physiology, LSUHSC. Experience in developmental and reproductive toxicology work or DART with laboratory animals, epidemiologic studies, as well as in support of US EPA Clean Air and Clean Water policy decisions.
Folami Ideraabdullah
Office: 5077 Genetic Medicine Building | Phone: (919) 445-9047 | Email
Prime Focus: Developmental Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology.
Klarissa Jackson
Office: Kerr Hall, Room 3320 | Phone: (919) 962-5551 | Email
Prime Focus: Drug/Xenobiotic Metabolism, Mechanistic Toxicology, Pharmacogenetics.
Ilona Jaspers
Office: EPA Human Studies Facility | Phone: (919) 966-8657 | Email
Prime Focus: Mechanisms by which air pollutants enhance susceptibility to and the severity of respiratory virus infections.
Samir Kelada
Office: 5072 Genetic Medicine Building | Phone: (919) 962-2148 | Email
Prime Focus: Gene-environment Interactions in Airway Diseases.
Urmila P. Kodavanti
Office: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - RTP | Phone: (919) 541-4963 | Email
Prime Focus: Cardiovascular disease and susceptibility, air pollutants, cardiopulmonary interactions, molecular mechanisms, genetic and environmental factors.
Beverly Koller
Office: 5073 Genetic Medicine Building | Phone: (919) 966-0508 | Email
Prime Focus: Mouse models for human disease, genes that modify disease progression.
Jeffrey Macdonald
Office: 9018B Mary Ellen Jones | Phone: (919) 843-5154 | Email
Prime Focus: Metabolomics, tissue engineering and systems biology.
Colette Miller
Prime Focus: Environmental pollutants on maternal, paternal, and intragenerational health outcomes.
Timothy Moran
Office: 4206B Mary Ellen Jones Building | Phone: 919-445-6822 | Email
Prime Focus: Environmental determinants of asthma and allergic disease; immunological mechanisms of environmental lung injury.
Leena Nylander-French
Office: 159 Rosenau Hall | Phone: (919) 966-3826 | Email
Prime Focus: Pharmacogenetics of detoxification pathways in skin and inhalation exposures to toxicants; mathematical and statistical exposure modeling for risk assessment.
Ken Pearce
Office: 3203 Marsico Hall | Phone: (919) 843-8461 | Email
Prime Focus: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery.
David Peden
Office: 546 Human Studies Facility | Phone: (919) 966-0768 | Email
Prime Focus: Translational and clinical research in environmental lung disease.
Currently not taking student rotations.
Julia Rager
Office: 347 Rosenau Hall | Phone: (919) 966-4410 | Email
Prime Focus: Computational toxicology, chemical mixtures, high-throughput exposure science and risk assessment.
Dale Ramsden
Office: 32-044 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center | Phone: (919) 966-9839 | Email
Prime Focus: Mechanisms of chromosome strand break repair.
Scott Randell
Office: 1117 Marsico Hall | Phone: (919) 966-8093 | Email
Prime Focus: Airway epithelial cell biology, pulmonary innate immunity and transplant pathophysiology.
Meghan Rebuli
Office: 5004A Mary Ellen Jones Building | Phone: (919) 966-6898 | Email
Prime Focus: Respiratory immune toxicology, sex differences, clinical and translational research, airway noninvasive sampling methods development.
Matthew Redinbo
Office: UNC Chemistry Department, 4350 Genomic Sciences Building, CB 3290 | Phone: 919-962-4581 | Email
Prime Focus: Examining the molecular basis for human diseases and seeking to discover new treatments focused on human and microbial targets.
Imran Rizvi
Office: 9206C Mary Ellen Jones Building | Phone: (919) 966-4934 | Email
Prime Focus: Biomedical Imaging, Rehabilitation Engineering.
John Rogers
Office: 109 T.W. Alexander Drive | Phone: (919) 541-5177 | Email
Prime Focus: Toxicological responses and mechanisms for effects on reproduction, pregnancy, pre- and postnatal development, and the nervous and endocrine systems.
Currently not taking student rotations.
James Samet
Office: 145 Medical Drive | Phone: (919) 966-0665 | Email
Prime Focus: Cell and molecular mechanisms of inflammatory responses induced by inhalation of ambient air pollutants.
Shehzad Sheikh
Office: 7312B MBRB | Phone: (984) 974-7131 | Email
Prime Focus: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) Autoimmune enteropathies Celiac disease.
Celia Shiau
Office: 4352 Genome Sciences Building | Phone: (919) 962-7010 | Email
Prime Focus: Crosstalk between immune and nervous systems; macrophages and microglia; inflammation; vertebrate development.
Johanna Smeekens
Office: 030 MacNider Hall; Campus Box 7231 | Phone: (919) 537-3335 | Email
Prime Focus: Johanna is a researcher with the Food Allergy Initiative at UNC. Her research interests include the airway as a route of sensitization to foods through environmental exposure and tracking the genetics of susceptibility to food allergy through novel mouse models.
Gregory Smith
Office: 5070E Genetics Medicine Building | Phone: (973) 459-8881 | Email
Prime Focus: Inhalation toxicology, inhalational exposures, genetic susceptibility, extracellular vesicles, small RNA, lung disease, respiratory physiology, in vivo models
Miroslav Styblo
Office: 2302 Michael Hooker Research Center | Phone: (919) 966-5721 | Email
Prime Focus: Metabolic interactions of essential microelements, especially trace metals, with toxic metals and metalloids that contaminate food and drinking water.
Haiyan Tong
Office: Environmental Protection Agency | Email
Prime Focus: Clinical and translational research on the cardiovascular effects of environmental pollutants; Interventional strategies to mitigate the adverse health effects from air pollution exposure.
Gregory Travlos
Office: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - RTP | Phone: (984) 287-3826 | Email
Prime Focus: The Clinical Pathology Group provides collaborative and consultative clinical pathology support for investigators at NIEHS.
Alexander Tropsha
Office: 100K Beard Hall | Phone: (919) 966-2955 | Email
Prime Focus: Biomolecular informatics; molecular structure-function modeling using statistical and machine learning approaches.
Cyrus Vaziri
Office: 614A Brinkhous-Bullitt | Phone: (919) 843-9639 | Email
Prime Focus: Defining DNA Repair Dependencies and Vulnerabilities of Cancer Cells
Cavin Ward-Caviness
Office: 104 Mason Farm Road | Phone: (919) 966-5445 | Email
Prime Focus: Dr. Cavin Ward-Caviness uses high-dimensional ‘omics data and large cohorts to study two major research themes: 1) determination of the molecular mechanisms linking environmental exposures and adverse health and 2) identification of molecular and clinical factors which may increase sensitivity to environmental exposures.
Paul Watkins
Office: Institute for Drug Safety Sciences - RTP | Phone: (919) 226-3140 | Email
Prime Focus: Mechanistic toxicology, hepatic toxicology, research translation, biomarkers.
Bernard Weissman
Office: 31-322 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center | Phone: (919) 966-7533 | Email
Prime Focus: Chromatin remodeling and epigenetic alterations in human cancers.
Carmen Williams
Office: E448B Rall Building - RTP | Phone: (984) 287-4313 | Email
Prime Focus: Basic reproductive biology of early mammalian embryogenesis, epigenetics, and how the environment impacts reproduction.
Mark Zylka
Office: 7008B Mary Ellen Jones Building | Phone: (919) 966-2540 | Email
Prime Focus: Identifying and studying environmental risks implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders; autism mouse models, Crispr/Cas9 based gene therapies, machine learning algorithms to quantify pain severity, single cell RNA-seq.