Faculty

Primary Faculty
Keshore Bidasee, PhD	Howard E. Gendelman, MD	Daniel Monaghan, PhD
Shilpa Buch, PhD	Santhi Gorantla, PhD	R. Lee Mosley, PhD
David B. Bylund, PhD	James Haorah, PhD	Charles Murrin, PhD
Pawel Ciborowski, PhD	Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD	Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD
Libin Cui, PhD	Georgette Kanmogne, PhD	Myron Toews, PhD
Huanyu Dou, MD	David McMillan, PhD	Huangui Xiong, MD, PhD
Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD	JoEllyn McMillan, PhD	Jialin Zheng, MD

Instructors
Jianuo Liu, PhD	Gurudutt Pendyala, PhD	Chun-hong Shao, PhD
Hui Pan, PhD	Hui Peng, MD	Honghong Yao, PhD

Emeritus Faculty
Jean Deupree, PhD	Terry Hexum PhD	Eric Scholar PhD

Courtesy Faculty
Iqbal Ahmad, PhD	John Davis PhD	Tammy Kielian, PhD
Robert G.Bennett, PhD	Janee Gelineua-Van Waes, PhD	Nora Sarvetnick, PhD
Stephen Bonasera, MD	Frederick G. Hamel, PhD	Steve Seifert, MD
Mike Boska, PhD	Alexander Kabanov, PhD, DrSc	Wallace B. Thoreson, PhD
Tatiana Bronich, PhD

Adjunct Faculty
Anuja Ghorpade, PhD

	Faculty	Research Interests
	Keshore Bidasee, PhD Associate Professor	Diabetes Heart Muscle contraction

	Shilpa Buch, PhD Professor	NeuroAIDS HIV Associated Dementia SHIV Animal Model

	David B. Bylund, PhD Professor	Adolescent Depression Adrenergic Receptors Animal models

	Pawel Ciborowski, PhD Assistant Professor	Proteomics Macrophages HIV-1

	Libin Cui, PhD Assistant Professor

	Huanyu Dou, MD Assistant Professor	Neuroprotection HIV-1 associated dementia Nanomedicine delivery

	Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD Professor	SIV Methamphetamine NeuroAIDS

	Howard E. Gendelman, MD Professor and Chair Director	Neuroregeneration Neuroinflammation Therapeutics and Nanomedicine

	Santhi Gorantla, PhD Assistant Professor	Mouse models for HIV Humanized mouse HIV vaccine HIV pathogenesis

	James Haorah, PhD Assistant Professor	Alcohol Oxidative stress CNS injury

	Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Alzheimer’s disease HIV-associated neurological disorders Confocal Microscope imaging Brain Bank

	Georgette Kanmogne, PhD Associate Professor	HIV Blood-brain barrier Vascular biology

	Jianuo Liu, PhD Instructor Huangui Xiong's laboratory	Microglia Neuron T regulatory cell Voltage-gated K channels

	David McMillan, PhD Associate Professor	Education Director

	JoEllyn McMillan, PhD Assistant Professor	Toxicology Environmental Genomics

	Daniel Monaghan, PhD Professor	Glutamate NMDA Synaptic transmission

	R. Lee Mosley, PhD Associate Professor	Immunoregulation Neurodegeneration Neuroprotection

	L. Charles Murrin, PhD Professor	Development neuroscience Instrumental imaging of receptors and receptor signaling Opioid receptors

	Hui Pan, PhD Instructor Howard S. Fox laboratory	Neurodegenerative disease, Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Autophagy, Synapse, Lentivirus

	Gurudutt Pendyala, PhD Instructor Howard S. Fox laboratory

	Hui Peng, MD Instructor Jialin Zheng laboratory

	Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Hematopoietic stem cells Murine Models for HIV-1 HIV-1 vaccines

	Chun-hong Shao, PhD Instructor Keshore Bidasee's laboratory

	Myron Toews, PhD Professor	Receptors and cell signaling Lipid Mediators of lung disease Desensitization of adrenergic receptors

	Huangui Xiong, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Synaptic transmission and plasticity Macrophage and neuronal K channels NMDA receptors Patch clamp

	Honghong Yao, PhD Instructor Shilpa Buch, PhD laboratory

	Jialin Zheng, MD Professor	Chemokine Glutamate Neurogenesis

	Yong Zhao Assistant Professor	Asia Pacific Rim Development Program


	Emeritus Faculty
	Jean Deupree, PhD Emeritus Professor	Adolescent Depression Adrenergic Receptors

	Terry Hexum, PhD Emeritus Professo	Neuropeptides Neurotransmission Catecholamines

	Eric Scholar, PhD Emeritus Professor	Cancer Chemotherapy Antimicrobial chemotherapy

	Courtesy Faculty
	Iqbal Ahmad, PhD Professor Department of Ophthalmology	Regulation of neural stem cells' proliferation, state of commitment and differentiation. Understand and treat the process of degenerative changes.

	Robert G. Bennett, PhD Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine	Relaxin signaling Insulin metabolism and signaling Hepatic fibrosi

	Stephen Bonasera, MD Assistant Professor Department of Internal Medicine-Geriatrics	Neurobiology of aging Age-related changes in functional behaviors (eating, drinking, physical activity) Age-related changes in regional CNS gene expression Behavioral analysis in mouse models

	Mike Boska, PhD Professor and Vice Chair for Research Department of Radiology	Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cell Tracking Disease Monitoring

	Tatiana Bronich, PhD Associate Professor College of Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Sciences	Polymeric nanostructured materials for application in drug delivery

	John Davis, PhD Professor and Director of Research and Development Olson Center for Women's Health	Cell signaling Reproductive endocrinology Cancer

	Janee Gelineau-Van Waes, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy

	Frederick G. Hamel, PhD Professor Department of Internal Medicine

	Alexander Kabanov, PhD, DrS c Professor College of Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Director, Center of Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine	Physical chemistry, life sciences and medicine with an emphasis on the use of polymers in therapeutics

	Tammy Kielian, PhD Associate Professor Department of Pathology/Microbiology	Immunology Neuroimmunology Infectious Diseases Toll-like receptors (TLRs) Cytokine/chemokine biology Gap junction communication

	Nora Sarvetnick, PhD Professor Department of Surgery - Transplant	Transplant immunology

	Steven Seifert MD Professor Department of Surgery Medical Director, Nebraska Poison Control Center

	Wallace B. Thoreson, PhD Professor Department of Ophthalmology	Retinal Physiology Photoreceptor neurotransmission

	Adjunct Faculty
	Anuja Ghorpade, PhD Professor and Vice Chair Department of Cell Biology and Genetics University of North Texas Health Sciences	Astrocyte Inflammation HIV-1
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