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.
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.
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.
Camille Ehre
Office: 450 MacNider Hall, CB 7217 | Phone: 919-966-1055 | Email
Prime Focus: The biochemical and biophysical properties of mucus which are affected in various airway diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis (CF), and primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD).
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.
Terry Furey
Office: 5046 Genetic Medicine Building | Phone: (919) 966-7033 | Email
Prime Focus: chromatin and gene regulation, complex traits, inflammatory bowel disease, toxicogenomics, computational biology, single-cell genomics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Erin Steinbach
Office: 3300 Thurston Bldg CB #7280 | Phone: (984) 974-2645 | Email
Prime Focus: Food allergy, peanut allergy, allergen immunotherapy, and eosinophilic disorders. Core research interests include peanut allergy, food allergy, eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease (EGID), and gastrointestinal dysfunction in food allergy.
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.
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
Benjamin Vincent
Office: 5206 Marsico Hall | Phone: (919) 928-4262 | Email
Prime Focus: Mechanisms of Resistance vs Response to Immunotherapy; Computational Immunology; Immunogenomics.
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.
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.
Interested in joining CiTEM as a new faculty member to advise students, teach classes, and contribute to the program? Please send the following materials to the Business Service Coordinator.
- A letter of interest stating your interest and qualifications for joining CiTEM
- Resume / Curriculum Vitae
- Two (2) letters of support from members of CiTEM