Faculty | IGPBS | University of Nebraska Medical Center

The faculty at UNMC who participate in the IGPBS have primary or adjunct appointments in one the five College of Medicine basic science departments or in the Cancer Research Graduate Program. This includes the research faculty in the departments of Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology and Surgery. Altogether, there are more than 200 IGPBS faculty representing more than 90% of UNMC's research laboratories.

This page lists all of the faculty who are involved in the IGPBS program. To see faculty who are associated with a particular doctoral program, use the links to the left.

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	Maher Y. Abdalla, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Oxidative stress and free radical biology; microbial infections; tumor immunology; cancer biology.

	Iqbal Ahmad, PhD Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research focus: Stem cell regulation and regenerative medicine for blinding diseases.

	Yazen Alnouti, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research focus: Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK), with a focus on the application of Bioanalytical Chemistry, in vitro and in vivo animal models to support ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) and pharmacokinetic (PK) studies; Biomarkers for hepato-biliary diseases based on bile acid metabolism by sulfation.

	Daniel R. Anderson, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Cardiology Research focus: Molecular and cellular immunology; innate immunity (preexisting immunity) and how such immune responses contribute to the mechanisms of cardiovascular disease processes, specifically focused on underlying mechanisms of viral myocarditis, atherosclerotic disease and the impact inflammation has on cardiac rhythm abnormalities.

	Rebecca Anderson, JD, MS, CGC Associate Professor, College of Public Health Research focus: Legal and ethical issues in clinical genetics; religious traditions and medical care; medical jurisprudence/public health law.

	Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics - Newborn Medicine Research focus: Nutrition in the ELBW infant, protein requirements, growth; Vitamin D requirements in infancy (preterm); Vitamin A and E requirements in preterm infants; placental transfer of Vitamin D; Vitamin D response to infection.

	Jyothi Arikkath, PhD Assistant Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of dendrite and spine morphogenesis and plasticity in the hippocampus.

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	Lorena Baccaglini, DDS, PhD Associate Professor, Collge of Public Health - Epidemiology Research focus: Clinical research; evidence-based medicine; systematic reviews; epidemiological methods; genetic epidemiology, oral and systemic diseases; wound healing; growth factors; head and neck injuries.

	Hamid Band, MD, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Regulation of receptor signaling by endocytic traffic; Cbl-family and CHIP ubiquitin ligases; EHD-family endocytic recycling regulators; mouse genetic models.

	Vimla Band, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Delineate molecular mechanisms of early steps in transformation of mammary epithelial cells with the goal of identifying novel molecular diagnostic/prognostic markers and potential therapy targets of breast cancers.

	Janina Baranowska-Kortylewicz, PhD Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology Research focus: Auger electron emitters in therapy and diagnosis of cancer; radioimmunotherapeutics and radiolabeled nucleic acid precursors for cancer therapy; imaging agents; investigational new drugs.

	Surinder K. Batra, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Structure/function analysis of tumor-associated genes.

	B. Timothy Baxter, MD, FACS Professor, Department of Surgery Research focus: Use of doxycycline to slow or stop the growth of aneurysms.

	Kenneth W. Bayles, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance.

	Robert Bennett, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (DEM) Research focus: Action and degradation of insulin/relaxin family hormones.

	Ann Berger, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCNS, FAAN Professor, College of Nursing Research focus: Symptom management, in particular fatigue and sleep/wake disturbances, in individuals with cancer; use of wrist actigraphy.

	Tadayoshi Bessho, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Molecular mechanism of DNA interstrand crosslink repair in mammalian cells.

	Kishor K. Bhakat, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Mitotic gene bookmarking: A novel dimension of epigenetic memory in cancer for post-mitotic transcriptional reactivation.

	Keshore Bidasee, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Regulation of intracellular calcium in cardiovascular disease.

	Philip Bierman, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine – Oncology and Hematology Research focus: Hodgkin disease; non-hodgkin lymphoma; neuro-oncology.

	Adrian Black, PhD Assistant Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Tissue sciences; molecular biology; cell cycle; transcription; protein kinase C signaling in intestinal cells; endometrial cancer.

	Jennifer Black, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Colon cancer; endometrial cancer; cell signaling; cell cycle regulation; protein kinase C.

	Erika I. Boesen, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: The endothelin system in renal ischemia-reperfusion injury; inflammatory cytokines and renal function and hypertension.

	Stephen Bonasera, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Geriatrics Research focus: Age related changes in brain function.

	Gloria Borgstahl, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Structural biology and double-strand DNA repair by homologous recombination.

	Michael D. Boska, PhD Professor and Vice Chairman of Radiology Research, Department of Radiology Research focus: In-vivo magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy.

	Julia A. Bridge, MD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Cytopathology, tumor cytogenetics.

	Shilpa Buch, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Mechanism(s) of CNS pathology triggered by the host-HIV interplay in the context of drugs of abuse.

	Shannon Buckley, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Molecular mechanisms regulating stem cell fate decisions that may also be linked to cancer.

	Keely Buesing, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery Research focus: Adult respiratory distress syndrome.

	Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: HIV/SIV/SHIV, neuroAIDS, transmission, drugs of abuse, HIV cure, gut homing molecules.

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	W. Scott Campbell, MBA, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Health informatics.

	Steve Caplan, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Molecular and atomic mechanisms of endocytosis and membrane trafficking.

	Mark Carlson, MD, FACS Professor, Department of Surgery Research focus: Cancer; regenerative medicine; hemostasis; wound healing.

	Pamela K. Carmines, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Renal microcirculation, vasoactive agents and intracellular signaling events regulating renal arteriolar tone, diabetes mellitus.

	Steven D. Carson, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Blood coagulation (tissue factor), coxsackievirus receptor.

	Adam J. Case, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology Research focus: Redox signaling and function of T-lymphocytes during hypertension; examining the interplay between the autonomic nervous and immune systems.

	Carol A. Casey, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research focus: Biochemistry of alcoholism and digestive system diseases.

	Ercole Cavalieri, DSc Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and estrogens. Etiology and prevention of human cancer.

	Claudia Chaperon, PhD, RN, APRN-NP, BC Associate Professor, College of Nursing Research focus: Effects of sleep-disturbing environments on late life health maintenance: water and electrolyte balance and blood pressure regulation; effects of sleep deprivation during the perimenopause in female mice; neurotrophin gene regulation of rhythms.

	Pi-Wan Cheng, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Glycobiology; gene therapy and cancer biology.

	Vinai Chittezham Thomas, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Staphylococcal physiology and metabolism; staphylococcus stress response.

	Sanjib Chowdhury, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Awaiting information.

	Pawel Ciborowski, PhD Professor and Director of Mass Spectometry and Proteomics Core Facility, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Protein structure and functions; proteomics.

	Dahn Clemens, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research focus: The effects of ethanol metabolism on liver and pancreas cellular functions and replications.

	Samuel M. Cohen, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Urologic pathology, carcinogenesis and toxicology.

	Martin Conda-Sheridan, PhD Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Design of complex multifunctional biomaterials and bioactive small molecules for medicinal applications.

	Kenneth Cowan, MD, PhD Director and Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Tumor suppressor genes, breast cancer.

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	Kaustabh Datta, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Molecular mechanisms of cancer progression and metastasis.

	John S. Davis, PhD Professor, Director of Research and Development - Olson Center for Women's Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research focus: Reproductive endocrinology and oncology.

	Rebecca Oberley-Deegan, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Role of free radicals signaling to transform fibroblasts and inflammatory cells in normal tissue, which results in damage to these tissues; understanding the mechanisms by which ROS promote radiation induced fibrosis and prostate cancer progression.

	Cyrus Desouza, MBBS Professor, Department of Internal Medicine – Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (DEM) Research focus: Improving outcomes in diabetes and obesity patients using treatment algorithms; mechanisms of diabetes and metabolic syndrome on vascular endothelial function; role of a typical antipsychotic agents in the development of diabetes.

	Punita Dhawan, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Role of TJs in colorectal cancer progression and metastasis.

	Jixin Dong, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Hippo signaling and cancer.

	Terrence Donohue, Jr, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research focus: Influence of alcohol consumption on hepatic autophagy and the proteasome.

	Bin Duan, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Cardiology Research focus: Mimicking native tissue microenvironment to regulate stem cell differentiation and promote tissue regeneration, and developing 3D tissue constructs/organoids to investigate the disease mechanisms and potential therapeutic remedies.

	Andrew Dudley, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Developmental biology of the skeleton, musculoskeletal disease and regeneration.

	Anna Dunaevsky, PhD Associate Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Learning induced structural and functional synaptic plasticity, neuron glia interactions and neurodevelopmental disorders.

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	James Eudy, PhD Associate Professor, Director of UNMC DNA Microarray and Sequencing Core Facility, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Genetic analysis of development and disease, nuclear receptors, neural tube defects.

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	Paul D. Fey, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Metabolism and its link to bacterial pathogenesis.

	Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Neurodegeneration, brain dysfunction and viral infections of the brain.

	Jeffrey French, PhD Professor and Director, University of Nebraska at Omaha Neuroscience Undergraduate Program. Appoint with the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Reproductive physiology and behavior, vocal communication.

	Kai Fu, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Hematopathology, lymphoma research.

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	Lie Gao, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Implication and significance of Angiotensin type 2 receptor in sympathetic regulation of chronic heart failure and pancreatic islet function of type 2 diabetes.

	Jered Garrison, PhD Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Targeted molecular imaging and radiotherapeutic agent design; development of cancer-specific drugs; polymer based drug delivery systems.

	Catherine Gebhart, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Histocompatibility testing for solid organ and bone marrow transplantation, infectious disease monitoring of immunocompromised individuals.

	Howard E. Gendelman, MD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Investigate Th1 and Th2 cell responses in Parkinson's disease; study the role of mononuclear phagocytes in neurotoxicity and neuroregeneration in HIV dementia.

	Gargi Ghosal, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Replication stress response in cancer and premature ageing.

	Santhi Gorantla, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Mouse models for HIV; humanized mouse model to study HIV vaccine strategies to induce protective immune responses and immune-based therapeutics to enhance HIV immune responses; HIV pathogenesis.

	Karen Gould, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: The role of estrogen receptor alpha signaling in autoimmunity and intestinal tumorigenesis.

	Michael Green, PhD Assistant Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Unravel the genetic underpinnings of lymphoid malignancies, with the ultimate goal of identifying and therapeutically targeting the molecular drivers of these cancers.

	Timothy C. Greiner, MD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Molecular pathology of lymphoma.

	Chittibabu (Babu) Guda, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Development and application of computational methods for genomic data analyses including cancer genomics, functional annotation of proteins, pathways, networks and systems in biomedical research.

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	R. Tanner Hagelstrom, PhD, MBA, MS, FACMG Assistant Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Areas where cutting edge research can be utilized in a successful, self-sustaining business model, especially in the field of clinical diagnostics; Chromosome Orientation-Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (CO-FISH).

	Frederick G. Hamel, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (DEM) Research focus: Degradation of insulin and its relationship to insulins mechanism of action; polypeptide hormone metabolism; diabetes mellitus.

	Curtis Hartman, MD Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Research focus: Awaiting information.

	Steven H. Hinrichs, MD Chair and Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Molecular pathogenesis and diagnostics of infectious organism, antimicrobial drug discovery and bioterrorism preparedness information technology.

	Michael A. (Tony) Hollingsworth, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: The molecular biology and genetics of MUC1 glycoproteins in pancreatic cancer.

	Karen Honeycutt, Med, MLS (ASCP) SM Associate Professor, College of Allied Health Professions – Clinical Laboratory Science Education Research focus: Effective and efficient educational methodologies; computer-based and multimedia education platforms; incorporation of professionalism in CLS education.

	Sung-Ho Huh, PhD Assistant Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Understanding mechanisms by which signaling pathways regulating sensory and nephron progenitor cells generation and maintenance during development and regeneration and use these findings as tools for regenerative medicine.

	R. Katherine (Kate) Hyde, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Control of gene expression in leukemia and normal hematopoiesis.

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	Javeed Iqbal, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Molecular signatures to improve diagnosis and outcome prediction in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; gene expression profiling and pathway targeted therapy in peripheral T-cell lymphoma; characterization of key molecular signatures in natural killer cell malignancies.

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	Maneesh Jain, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Targeted therapy of pancreatic cancer - tumor vaccines, antibody engineering and modulation of tumor microenvironment.

	Peng Jiang, PhD Assistant Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Cellular and molecular basis of human neural development and pathogenesis of neurological disease.

	Donald R. Johnson, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Immunology and tumor biology. The effect of major depressive disorder on the innate immune system.

	Keith R. Johnson, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: The role the cell adhesion molecules (cadherins) play in metastasis.

	Shantaram S. Joshi, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Biology and therapy of human B-Cell malignancies. Functional genomics of human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and cellular/immunotherapy of human mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).

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	Peter Kador, PhD Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Design and synthesis of multifunctional antioxidants and enzyme inhibitors; the mechanism of action drugs and development of agents as they relate to the inhibition of diabetic complications; age related macular degeneration, cataract development and neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer’s disease; basic cellular mechanisms that lead to the initiation of diabetic complications and the development of disease-associated animal models.

	Georgette D. Kanmogne, PhD, MPH Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: HIV/AIDS, vascular biology and cell signaling.

	Adam R. Karpf, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Cancer epigenetics and DNA methylation, ovarian cancer.

	Sukhwinder Kaur, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Awaiting information.

	Kusum Kharbanda, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research focus: Alcohol liver study.

	Tammy L. Kielian, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Immunology of infectious diseases, focus on how Staphylococcus aureus biofilms evade immune mediated clearance; Juvenile Batten Disease, focus on mechanisms leading to neuron loss in this pediatric lysosomal storage disease.

	Woo-Yang Kim, PhD Assistant Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Neural stem cells, neuronal differentiation and neurodevelopmental disorders.

	David Klinkebiel, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Dynamics associated with changes in the genome and epigenome of human disease.

	Zeljka Korade, DVM, PhD Professor, Department of Pediatrics Research focus: Cholesterol metabolism in the central nervous system; study of an inborn error of metabolism Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome; desmosterolosis; development of neuronal cell lines with defects in different enzymes of cholesterol biosynthesis pathway and their characterization.

	Max Kurz, PhD Associate Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: How the sensorimotor cortices reach a decision threshold, integrate sensory feedback and produce a motor action; motor control and learning of children and adults with cerebral palsy; role of genetic factors for neuroplasticity and memory consolidation.

	Shelby Kutty, MD Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Microbubble mediated therapeutic ultrasound applications for thrombus dissolution in pig models of venous and arterial thrombi; molecular mechanisms of right ventricular failure in rat and pig models of adaptive right ventricular stresses, and in the human right ventricle in congenital heart disease.

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	Marilynn Larson, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Development of diagnostics and therapeutics for pathogen identification and treatment; respectively; determining the molecular mechanisms that allow pathogens to replicate and persist.

	Tricia LeVan, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep & Allergy Research focus: Genetic and pathogen associated microbial product influences on respiratory diseases, functional genomic studies, gene by environment association studies, host pathogen interactions with bronchial epithelial cells.

	Robert Lewis, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Identification and targeting of Ras-driven, tumor-specific pathways; molecular mechanisms controlling cellular and organismal energy balance.

	David Wan-Cheng Li, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research focus: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of ocular disease (cataract and retina degeneration) and cancer.

	Yulong Li, MD Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Dysfunction of baroreceptor neurons in heart failure and diabetes: cellular and molecular mechanisms.

	Ming-Fong Lin, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Mechanism of cell growth regulation by steroids via cross-talk of ROS and tyrosine phosphorylation signaling.

	Jianuo Liu, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: HIV-1 associated neurological disorders.

	Yutong Liu, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Radiology Research focus: Neuroimaging and image processing.

	Oksana Lockridge, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Mass spectrometry to diagnose exposure to organophosphates; production of human butyrylcholinesterase.

	Brian Lowes, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Cardiology Research focus: Novel education clinical trainees and education program with a goal to develop clinicians and scientists in sub-Saharan Africa.

	Sorin Luca, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Protein structure determination using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance; study of membrane proteins and amyloid fibrils that are involved in a wide range of diseases; fundamental processes of biological membranes.

	Matthew Lunning, DO Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine – Oncology and Hematology Research focus: Rare hematologic malignancies with a focus on early drug development and experimental correlates that leads to enhanced knowledge of how to treat hematologic malignancies.

	Jiangtao Luo, PhD Assistant Professor, College of Public Health - Biostatistics Research focus: Statistical genetics and genomics; statistical methods in clinical genetics and genetic epidemiology; statistical and mathematical modeling; optimal treatment in clinical trials, esp. application of optimization and optimal control; longitudinal data analysis and functional data analysis; Bayesian statistics.

	Xu Luo, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Regulation of mitochondria-dependent cell death.

	Richard Lutz, MD Associate Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Birth defects; mental retardation; autism; enzyme replacement therapy; pediatric growth problems.

	Yuri Lyubchenko, PhD, DrSc Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Nanoscale structure, dynamics and interactions – seeing and manipulating biomolecules.

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	Richard G. MacDonald, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Transmembrane signaling and regulation of cell growth.

	Muzafar Macha, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Awaiting information.

	Luis Marky, PhD Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Biophysical chemistry and molecular forces that control the conformational stability and flexibility of nucleic acids, including Okazaki fragments, hairpin loops, intramolecular triplexes, G-quadruplexes, C-quadruplexes, and three- & four-arm DNA junctions and their interaction with drugs.

	Thomas McDonald, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Immunology; antigen isolation and purification; acute phase proteins; inflammation; immunoassays.

	David McMillan, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Mechanisms of toxicity of drugs and environmental chemicals; mechanism underlying pro-oxidant drug-induced hemolytic anemia , and in the metabolism and toxicity of the environmental contaminant, trichloroethylene.

	Benita McVicker, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology-Hepatology Research focus: Alcohol liver injury and mechanisms.

	Parmender P. Mehta, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Connexins and cell-to-cell contact-dependent intercellular communication.

	Jane Meza, PhD Professor, College of Public Health - Biostatistics Research focus: Statistical issues related to small-area estimation. These methods have been extended to disease mapping applications and combining national and state data to estimate the probability of a rare event.

	Karoly Mirnics, MD, PhD Director, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Transcriptome changes across human brain disorders; effects of maternal immune activation on the brain and behavior; animal models of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders; effects of Gene "Environment and Environment" Environment interactions on the developing brain; peripheral biomarkers of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders and neuroprotection by activity.

	Paras Kumar Mishra, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: MicroRNomics of cardiovascular diseases and diabetic cardiomyopathy.

	Aaron Mohs, PhD Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Development of new florescent imaging contrast agents to guide surgical removal of tumors; developing new drug delivery systems that target tumor metabolism.

	Daniel T. Monaghan, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Development of drugs for modulating NMDA receptor activity for treating schizophrenia and autism.

	R. Lee Mosley, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Regulation of T Lymphocyte function; T cell-mediated immunity in neurodegenerative disorders.

	Justin L. Mott, PhD, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: MicroRNA regulation of apoptosis in liver cancer or alternatively, bile duct injury in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

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	Mayumi Naramura, MD Assistant Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Cancer initiation, progression and treatment of the Ras-Raf, MAPK pathway.

	Prabagaran (Praba) Narayanasamy, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Drug design, discovery and development (including drug delivery by nanomedicine) for infectious diseases; study of physiology and pathogenesis of bacteria and virus towards drug discovery; design, synthesis and characterization of substrates, inhibitors, intermediates, products and mechanisms for drug discovery and development.

	Naava Naslavsky, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Development of new strategies to treat diseases involving traffic and recycling events related to the control of receptor localization to the plasma membrane that is central to normal cell function, and dysregulation as the underlying cause for diseases as diverse as atherosclerosis, diabetes and cancer.

	Amarnath (Amar) Natarajan, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Chemical probes for protein-protein interactions and kinases.

	Ali Nawshad, PhD Associate Professor, College of Dentistry Research focus: Transforming Growth Factor (TGF) ß signaling during palate development; mechanisms of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) by TGFß in HNSCC; role of TGFß signaling during dentinogenesis.

	Scott Nawy, PhD Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research focus: Understanding of information processing in the retina at the level of individual synapses and receptors; molecular mechanisms by which synaptic information is modified by short and long-term changes in the visual scene in the healthy retina; how synapses are altered by diseases of the retina.

	Robert B. Norgren, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Genomics; neurogenetics; developmental neurobiology; neurodegeneration.

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	Gregory Oakley, PhD Associate Professor, College of Dentistry – Oral Biology Research focus: DNA damage and repair involving signal transduction pathways that regulate the cellular response to DNA damage and how alterations in these pathways contribute to mutagenesis and, ultimately, carcinogenesis.

	Ann Haskins Olney, MD Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Dysmorphology; molecular etiology of multiple congenital anomaly syndromes; overgrowth syndromes; syndrome delineation.

	Rene Opavsky, PhD Assistant Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: DNA methylation in hematopoiesis and cancer.

	Natalia Osna, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine – Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GI) Research focus: A member of the Alcohol Liver Study Unit conducting research on how alcohol consumption affects protein degradation in the liver and brain; ethanol metabolism on cellular replication; ethanol as it relates to altered protein trafficking and the pathogenesis of alcoholic liver injury; role of iron as a secondary risk factor in liver diseases including oxidative stress induced by agents such as alcohol or hepatitis C viral proteins as one of the primary underlying mechanisms of iron overload.

	Michael M. Ouellette, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research focus: Molecular mechanisms that determine the lifespan of human cells.

	David Oupicky, PhD Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Nanomedicine with emphasis on the development of novel approaches to deliver drug combinations to better treat various diseases; design of multifunctional nanoparticles with application in the treatment of metastatic cancer and inflammatory conditions like Crohn’s disease.

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	Babu Padanilam, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Cellular, biochemical and molecular analysis of the pathophysiology of acute ischemic renal injury and chronic kidney disease.

	Kaushik P. Patel, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Neural control of fluid balance in normal and disease states.

	Youri Pavlov, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Cellular systems of mutagenesis and antimutagenesis.

	Gurudutt N. Pendyala, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Research focus: Neuroinflammation at the synapse associated with chronic drug abuse and HIV synergy, sex differences, Prenatal drug exposure and synaptic development; application of high throughput technologies (genomics, mass spectrometry-based proteomics and metabolomics).

	Aimin Peng, PhD Associate Professor, College of Dentistry Research focus: Cell cycle regulation and the DNA damage response (DDR); cellular recover process from DNA damage; protein phosphatase-dependent cell cycle and DDR regulation and its implication for cancer progression and therapy.

	Thomas Petro, PhD Professor, College of Dentistry Research focus: Using molecular immunobiology approaches to explore intrinsic pathways to or novel therapeutics for expression and control of cytokines to prevent chronic viral infections, autoimmune disease and/or inflammatory diseases.

	Armen Petrosyan, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Mechanism of Golgi alteration in advanced prostate cancer: focus on aberrant glycosylation; role for non-muscle Myosin IIA in alcohol-induced Golgi fragmentation.

	Iraklis Pipinos, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Regeneration of adult skeletal muscle with the use of exercise, medications, adult stem cells and revascularization operations; mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative damage and inflammation in the leg muscle of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD); Atrophy in the leg muscles of patients with PAD; biomechanical analysis of the gait of PAD patients; developmental biology and its role in regenerative medicine..

	Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Pathogenesis and treatment of HIV-1 associated dementia.

	Moorthy Ponnusamy, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Characterization of cancer stem cells; mucins in ovarian cancer.

	Bunny Pozehl, PhD, RN, APRN-NP, FAHA, FAAN Professor, College of Nursing Research focus: Exercise training interventions and promoting adherence to exercise in hear t failure.

	Sundaralingam Premaraj, BDS, MS, PhD, FRCD(C) Associate Professor, College of Dentistry Research focus: Cranial suture biology; (TGF) ß cell signaling in osteoblasts; molecular biology of tooth movement.

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	Satyayanarayana Rachagani, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Awaiting information.

	St. Patrick Reid, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Molecular virology of novel functions of proteins encoded by highly pathogenic viruses; Elucidating host-pathogen interactions of emerging highly pathogenic viruses including Ebola, Chikungunga and Zika.

	Stephen I. Rennard, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Research focus: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of lung remodeling.

	Angie A. Rizzino, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Molecular mechanisms that control the proliferation of tumor-initiating cells and the growth and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells.

	William Rizzo, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics Research focus: Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome and other inherited metabolic diseases.

	Kerry Rodabaugh, MD Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research focus: Gynecologic oncology.

	Eleanor G. Rogan, PhD Professor, College of Public Health Research focus: Metabolic activation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and catechol estrogens to form DNA adducts, generate oncogenic mutations and initiate cancer.

	Debra Romberger, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Research focus: Agricultural/occupation/environmental lung disease; airway epithelial repair and injury mechanisms; clinical problems associated with COPD; mycobacterial lung disease.

	Shyamal K. Roy, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Endocrine regulation of follicular development, growth factors, signal transduction in ovarian cells and biochemistry of granulosa cells.

	George J. Rozanski, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Cellular basis of the bio-electric properties of cardiac cells in normal and pathophysiological states.

	Mark Rupp, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Research focus: Awaiting information.

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	Uriel Sandkovsky, MD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Research focus: Awaiting information.

	Steven C. Sansom, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Physiological mechanisms of ion transport in the kidney.

	Harold D. Schultz, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Sensory and motor functions of the autonomic nervous system.

	Karen Schumacher, PhD, RN Professor, College of Nursing Research focus: Family caregiving during cancer treatment with a focus on the transition into the family caregiving role at the beginning of cancer treatment, how the role changes over the course of treatment and what health effects caregivers experience over time; management of cancer pain by oncology outpatients and family caregivers.

	John G. Sharp, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Control of cell proliferation, tumor cell biology.

	Polina Shcherbakova, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Mechanisms controlling genome stability in eukaryotic cells, particularly the functions of DNA polymerases, DNA replication fidelity and the relationship between DNA polymerase defects and cancer.

	Simon Sherman, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Carcinogenic modeling, cancer informatics.

	Amar Singh, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Molecular mechanisms of mucosal inflammation and associated cancer; and Ciliogenesis, autophagy and renal diseases; understanding the causal role of the epithelial barrier in the regulation of mucosal inflammation and associated cancer; regulation of renal tubular epithelial cell morphogenesis and renal cancer.

	Pankaj Singh, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Signal transduction in cancer, cancer metabolism and systems biology.

	Rakesh K. Singh, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Host-tumor interaction in tumor progression, angiogenesis and metastasis, tumor immunology.

	Joseph Sisson, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Research focus: Control of ciliary motility, which is critical host defense function of the airways; regulation of ciliary beating in primary cultures of ciliated tracheal epithelium; role that nitric oxide plays in stimulating protein kinases that cause cilia to beat faster; ethanol as a model agonist and the mechanism(s) by which ethanol desensitizes the ciliary apparatus to subsequent stimulation by physiologic agonists; kinase phosphorylation targets in the cilia axoneme to determine the mechanism(s) by which phosphorylation activates dyneins and other motor elements of the axoneme.

	Shelley D. Smith, PhD, FACMG Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Identification of genetic influences on developmental language and learning disorders in children.

	Jessica Nichols Snowden, MD Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Research focus: Development of an animal model of central nervous system catheter infections; epidemiology and management of tularemia.

	Joyce Solheim, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Mechanisms regulating the immune response to tumors and infectious pathogens, and development of new immunotherapies.

	Ghada Soliman, MD, PhD, RD, LMNT Associate Professor, College of Public Health Research focus: A nutrient-sensing protein termed the mammalian Target of Rapamycin (m TOR) as a master regulator of metabolism, cell growth and proliferation; obesity, and related metabolic disorder, as well as the impact of micronutrient deficiencies among individuals, across populations and globally; optimal nutrition as an integral part of global health promotion and disease prevention; public health and social burdens of malnutrition.

	Paul Sorgen, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Biophysical characterization of membrane proteins and protein-protein interactions. Characterizing the role of intra- and inter-molecular interactions involved in regulating the gap junction family of proteins.

	Laurey Steinke, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Metaproteomics of microbial communities and the microbiome.

	Wayne Stuberg, PT, PhD, PCS, FAPTA Professor, Munroe-Meyer Institute Research focus: Effect of manual stretching in children with cerebral palsy; treadmill training to improve walking in children with developmental disabilities; neural basis of motor development and rehabilitation.

	Kaihong Su, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Immunology and autoimmunity; understanding the molecular mechanisms for autoimmune disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA); developing new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for these diseases.

	Keer Sun, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Immunology; the impact of oxidative stress on the complex virus-host-bacterium interaction occurring during influenza and MRSA co-infection.

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	Tahir Tahirov, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Reveal the structure basis of the mechanisms covering the key stages in the expression and duplication/repair of genes and to learn how the disease-related mutations in proteins disrupt these key processes.

	James E. Talmadge, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Tumor biology, metastasis, immunotherapy, molecular and cellular immunology, hematology and oncology.

	Melissa Teoh-Fitzgerald, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Redox signaling in cancer epithelial-fibroblast interactions.

	Geoffrey M. Thiele, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Rheumatology Research focus: Autoimmunity, immune system disorders, immunopathology; infectious diseases/agents; Rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, breast cancer and the immune system, bone loss and erosion, alcoholic liver disease.

	Austin Thompson, MD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Research focus: Cellular mechanisms of airways; inflammation and chronic bronchitis; pathophysiology of emphysema; modulation of airways inflammation and cystic fibrosis.

	Wallace B. Thoreson, PhD Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research focus: Visual information processing by the retina; electrophysiology of rod and cone photoreceptors signalling to downstream retinal nerve cells.

	Myron Toews, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Regulation of G protein-coupled receptors and their signaling pathways; lysophosphatidic acid and its receptors in lung disease; epidermal growth factor receptors and protease signaling in agricultural dust-induced lung disease.

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	Matthew Van Hook, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research focus: Mechanisms of synaptic transmission by retinal neurons and influence of neurodegenerative diseases (i.e. glaucoma) on retinal function. Techniques include patch-clamp electrophysiology, anatomical and immunohistochemical techniques, mouse models, calcium imaging and 2-phonton microscopy.

	Trevor VanSchooneveld, MD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Research focus: Awaiting information.

	Joseph Vetro, PhD Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Developing novel synthetic targeted drug and gene delivery nanocarriers for the anti-angiogenesis treatment of cancer; improving development paradigms for targeted bioimaging and drug delivery nanocarriers; developing subunit vaccines based on the novel adjuvant, EP67.

	Saraswathi Viswanathan, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Determine the link between obesity and cardiovascular disease.

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	Kay-Uwe Wagner, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Genetic modeling of mammary gland development, breast and pancreatic cancer; genome-side sequencing.

	James Wahl, PhD Associate Professor, College of Dentistry Research focus: Understand the role of desmosomes play in maintaining the normal phenotype of squamous epithelial tissues and to determine if their alteration during tumorigenesis influences cell motility, metastasis and signaling.

	Cheng Wang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research focus: Awaiting information.

	Guangshun (Gus) Wang, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology Research focus: Biomolecular NMR; structural biology; signal transduction; antimicrobial peptides.

	Hanjun Wang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Cardiovascular reflexes during exercise; neural control mechanisms underlying the exaggerated cardiovascular response and hyperventilation during exercise in the chronic heart failure state.

	Jing (Jenny) Wang, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets of metastasis.

	San Ming Wang, MD Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Coordinator of Clinical Research, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience

	David Warren, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences Research focus: Memory; amnesia, neuroimaging; neuropsychology.

	Tony W. Wilson, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences Research focus: Human cortical neurophysiology and imaging in healthy development, cognitive aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

	Nicholas Woods, PhD Assistant Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Systems biology based analysis of cancer signaling pathways.

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	Huangui Xiong, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Molecular and cellular underlying HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders.

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	Ying Yan, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology Research focus: Signal transduction pathways; protein phosphatases and kinases; cell cycle regulation and DNA damage checkpoint response; molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis and cancer metastasis; molecular mechanisms of therapy resistance and cancer recurrence; sensitization of cancer cells to chemo/radiation therapy.

	Sowmya Yelamanchili, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: MicroRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases, HIV, Parkinson's Disease.

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	Hong Zheng, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Neural control of cardiovascular disease.

	Jialin Zheng, MD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Chemokines and neural chemokine receptors in neuropathogenesis of HIV-associated dementia.

	Matthew C. Zimmerman, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Mitochondrial-produced reactive oxygen species in central nervous system-related disease, particularly hypertension and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (aka Lou Gehrig's disease).

	Irving H. Zucker, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Neural control of cardiovascular function; heart failure; hypertension; sympathetic function.

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