Keshore Bidasee, PhD
Associate Professor

_{Research focus:  Molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for cardiovascular complications in individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM), and identify therapeutic strategies that could be used to slow their progression.}

Shilpa Buch, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Therapeutic strategies that may enhance neural function and survival in NeuroAIDS, with possible implication in other neurodegenerative diseases.}

Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Associate Professor

_{Research focus:  HIV/SIV/SHIV, neuroAIDS, transmission, drugs of abuse, HIV cure, gut homing molecules}

Pawel Ciborowski, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Protein structure and functions; proteomics.}

Benson Edagwa, PhD
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus:  HIV-1, tuberculosis, medicinal chemistry, polymer chemistry, drug delivery, theranostics, LASER ART (Long acting slow effective release antiretroviral therapy).}

Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Neurodegeneration, brain dysfunction and viral infections of the brain.}

Howard E. Gendelman, MD
Professor and Chair

_{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}

Santhi Gorantla, PhD
Associate Professor

_{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.}

Minglei Guo, PhD
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus:  HIV, cocaine, autophagy, neuroinflammation, HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), microglia}

Guoku Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus: HIV, drugs of abuse, exosomes, non-coding RNAs}

Yunlong Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus: Neuroimmunology, drug development, neurogenesis and neurorepair}

Georgette Kanmogne, PhD, MPH
Professor

_{Research focus:  HIV/AIDS, vascular biology and cell signaling}

David McMillan, PhD
Professor and Professional Educator

_{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}

JoEllyn McMillan, PhD
Associate Professor

_{Research focus: Developing nanoformulations of antiretroviral drugs and testing these in cell-based and animal model systems}

Daniel Monaghan, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Development of drugs for modulating NMDA receptor activity for treating schizophrenia and autism.}

R. Lee Mosley, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Regulation of T Lymphocyte function; T cell-mediated immunity in neurodegenerative disorders.}

Peter Oldenburg, PhD
Assistant Professor and Professional Educator

_{Research focus: How substances such as alcohol and organic dust effect the airways and how these substances alter bronchial responsiveness as well as inflammation in the airways.}

Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Pathogenesis and treatment of HIV-1 associated dementia; translational mouse models for human-specific diseases.}

Myron Toews, PhD
Professor

_{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, oxytocin receptors and signaling in primate social behavior.}

Huangui Xiong, MD, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Molecular and cellular underlying HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders.}

Sowmya Yelamanchili, PhD
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus:  MicroRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases, HIV, Parkinson's Disease.}

Jialin Zheng, MD
Professor

_{Research focus:  Chemokines and neural chemokine receptors in neuropathogenesis of HIV-associated dementia.}