Primary Faculty

Keshore Bidasee, PhD
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
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.}

Prasanta Dash, PhD
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus: HIV-1, Humanized mice, nanoART, Pharmacodynamics, HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), drug-drug interaction, detection and targeting of HIV-1 reservoirs, HIV-1 elimination, CRISPR-Cas9 based targeting}

Benson Edagwa, PhD
Associate Professor

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

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
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.}

Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy, MVSC, PhD, Exec MBA
Professor

_{Research focus: Genome editing technology development and animal model designing} 

Guoku Hu, PhD
Associate 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}

Bhavesh Kevadiya, PhD 
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus: antiretroviral therapy, intrinsic doping of radioisotopes, molecular imaging technology, multimodal theranostic nanoparticles, nano-cocrystal, single photon emission computed tomography, biodistribution, synthesis and characterizations of nanomaterials, transformative nanotechnology}

Jianuo Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research topics: Immunology, HIV, Leukocytes, microglia, neuroinflammation, HIV-associated dementia.

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
Associate 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.}

Palsamy Periyasamy, PhD
Assistant Professor

_{Research focus: Drugs of abuse, HIV, autophagy, endoplasmic reticulum stress, epigenetics, microRNAs}  

Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD
Professor

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

Susmita Sil, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research focus: HIV, drugs of abuse, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s Disease, autophagy, long non-coding RNA, exosomes

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.}

Xinglong Wang, PhD
Professor

_{Research focus: Alzheimer's disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Frontotemporal dementia, Multiple sclerosis, Neurodegenerative diseases, Mitochondrial dysfunction, Mitochondrial dynamics, Neuroinflammation, TDP-43 proteinopathy, Aβ, tau, Neuromuscular junction.}

Huangui Xiong, MD, PhD
Professor

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