Bogdan Beirowski, MD, PhD

• Neurology
  Clinical: Neuromuscular Conditions
  Research: the relationship of axonal bioenergetics and glial metabolism
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Elisabetta Babetto, PhD

• Neurology
  Unveiling the driving forces of axon degeneration and act on these forces to alter the rate of axon loss
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Sharon Amacher, PhD

• Molecular Genetics
  Sequential determination of cells during vertebrate development.
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Candice Askwith, PhD

• Neuroscience
  Role of ion channels in neurological disease and normal physiology.
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Kellie Archer, PhD

• Biostatistics
  Development of statistical methods and computational algorithms for analyzing high-throughput genomic data.
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Michael Bailey, PhD

• Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Bidirectional interactions between the host physiology and microbes within the gastrointestinal tract (the microbiome).
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Ruth Barrientos, PhD

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
  The role of inflammation on cognitive impairments in aging.
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Brandon Biesiadecki, PhD

• Physiology
  Post-translation protein modifications in heart function.
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Susie Breitenstein, PhD

Rodney Britt, PhD

• Center for Perinatal Research, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Pathophysiology of neonatal and pediatric lung diseases.
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Christin Burd, PhD

• Molecular Genetics and Cancer Biology and Genetics
  Cancer evolution and therapeutic resistance of tumors.
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John Byrd, MD

• Medicinal Chemistry and Veterinary Biosciences
  Therapeutic targeting with immune and targeted therapies for adult leukemia.

Lei Cao, PhD

• Cancer Biology and Genetics
  Anti-cancer and anti-obesity phenotypes induced by a complex environment.

Dawn Chandler PhD

• Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Pre-mRNA splicing in cancer and neurological disease.
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Jennifer Cheavens, PhD

Vincenzo Coppola, MD

• Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics
  Modeling biology of human disease in mice.
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Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, PhD

• Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
  The impact of obesity in the development of pancreatic diseases.
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Jayajit Das, PhD

• Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Developing a mechanistic understanding of host pathogen interactions using computational and theoretical methods.
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Isabelle Deschenes, PhD

• Physiology
  Molecular basis of cardiac arrhythmias.
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Hamdy Elsayed-Awad, MD

• Anesthesiology
  Neurological damage following surgical complications.
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Andy Fischer, PhD

• Neuroscience
  The impact of stem cells on retinal degeneration and regeneration.

Kevin Flanigan, MD

• Neuromuscular Research, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Genetic and molecular characterization of inherited neuromuscular diseases.
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Adriana Forero, PhD

• Microbial Infection & Immunity
  Identifying viral and host factors that promote maladaptive interferon (IFN) responses and contribute to the development of immunopathologies.
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Michael Freitas, PhD

• Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics
  Proteomic approaches to investigate chromatin remodeling in cancer.
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Daniel Gallego-Perez, PhD

• Biomedical Engineering and General Surgery
  Development and implementation of novel nanotechnologies for applications in regenerative medicine and cancer.
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Vidu Garg, MD

• Cardiology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Understanding the genetic basis of congenital heart disease and the molecular pathways regulating normal and abnormal cardiac development.
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Erica Glasper, PhD

• Neuroscience
  Understanding the interactions among neuroimmune function, endocrine systems and social behavior.
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Aaron (Joseph) Goldman, PhD

• Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
  Gene expression mechanisms that underlie zebrafish heart regeneration.
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Julie Golomb, PhD

• Psychology
  Interactions between visual attention, memory, perception, and eye movements using human behavioral and computational cognitive neuroscience.
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Peixuan Guo, PhD

• Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology
  Nanobiotechnology and RNA Nanotechnology.
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Tamar Gur, MD, PhD

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
  Maternal mental health in the development of psychiatric outcomes in offspring.
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Renzhi Han, PhD

• Cardiac Surgery
  CRISPR genome editing in understanding muscle physiology and disease, and therapeutic development.
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Paco Herson, PhD

• Neurosurgery
  Development of new therapeutic approaches to treat cerebrovascular disease.
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Mark Hester, PhD

• Institute for Genomic Medicine
  Translational neuroscience laboratory focused on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurological disorders such as pediatric epilepsy and autism.
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Scott Harper, PhD

• Center for Gene Therapy, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Developing RNAi-based approaches to treat neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disease.
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Emily Hemann, PhD

• Microbial Infection & Immunity
  Development of improved adjuvants and therapeutics against viral infection.
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Paul Janssen, PhD

• Physiology and Cell Biology
  The contractile dysfunction of muscle in heart failure and muscular dystrophy.

Jamie Jontes, PhD

• Neuroscience
  Synapse and circuit formation in the vertebrate nervous system.
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Michael Kearse

• Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
  The Kearse lab uses a multidisciplinary approach, including biochemistry and molecular biology, to define novel regulatory mechanisms of mRNA translation important in human biology and disease.
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Lawrence Kirschner, MD, PhD

• Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics
  Signaling pathways that contribute to tumorigenesis in endocrine tumors.
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Kathryn Lenz, PhD

• Psychology
  The impact of the endocrine and immune systems on brain development and behavior.
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Brenda Lilly, PhD

• Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research
  Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Fundamentals of blood vessel formation and smooth muscle differentiation.
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Amy Lovett-Racke, PhD

• Microbial Infection and Immunity
  Role of T cells in the onset and progression of multiple sclerosis.

Paola Malerba, PhD

• Neuroscience
  Neural networks production of brain rhythms and what role they play in brain function.
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Dana McTigue, PhD

• Neuroscience
  The role of adult progenitor cells in repair after CNS injury or disease.
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M. Asuncion Mejias, MD, PhD

• Center for Vaccines and Immunity, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
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Peter Mohler, PhD

• Physiology
  Protein targeting in excitable cells and its role in arrhythmia of the heart.

Kirk Mykytyn, PhD

• Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
  Role of primary cilia in behavior and neurological disease.
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Steve Oghumu, PhD

• Pathology
  Cellular, molecular and immunological mechanisms of oral carcinogenesis and oral cancer chemoprevention.
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Jose Otero, MD, PhD

• Pathology and Neuroscience
  The mechanisms of post-natal brain development in health and disease with a particular focus on the autonomic nervous system.
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Santiago Partida-Sanchez, PhD

• Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Ion channels and their role in regulating migration of phagocytic cells during inflammation or infection.
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Jeff Parvin, MD, PhD

• Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics
  Using bioinformatics as well as molecular and biochemical methods to study the biological processes underlying breast cancer.
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Leah Pyter, PhD

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
  Psychoneuroimmunology of the impact of stress and cancer on behavior and wound healing.
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Jill Rafael-Fortney, PhD

• Physiology and Cell Biology
  Molecular pathogenesis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Chad Rappleye, PhD

• Microbial Infection & Immunity
  Molecular mechanisms that underlie the virulence of fungal pathogens.
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Zakee Sabree, PhD

• Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
  Host-microbe interactions in the evolution of physiological structures.
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Stephanie Seveau, PhD

• Microbial Infection and Immunity
  Host-pathogen interactions of the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.
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John Sheridan, PhD

• Behavioral Medicine
  The impact of chronic stress on the innate immune system and inflammation to affect behavior.
  Accepting Scholars

Sakima Smith, MD

• Cardiovascular Medicine
  Cardiac physiology as it relates to heart failure and disease.
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Kristin Stanford, PhD

• Physiology and Cell Biology
  The impact of exercise and metabolic health on the response to injury.
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Amanda Toland, PhD

• Cancer Biology and Genetics
  Genetic susceptibility to colon, breast, and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
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Monica Venere, PhD

• Cancer Biology/Radiation Oncology
  Elucidate points of fragility for glioblastoma using cell and molecular biology, as well as animal models, and to exploit these findings to develop treatment modalities and/or improve current standards of care, thereby altering the dismal prognosis associated with these tumors.
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Noah Weisleder, PhD

• Physiology and Cell Biology
  Plasma membrane repair in skeletal muscle and cardiovascular pathology.
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David Wood, PhD

• Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
  Developing biotechnologies through engineering proteins for specific applications such as biosensing, protein purification drug discovery, and drug delivery.
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Daniel Wozniak, PhD

• Microbial Infection and Immunity
  Understanding the molecular biology and virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in order to prevent persistent airway infections.
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Jacob Yount, PhD

• Microbial Infection and Immunity
  Aims to define cellular defense mechanisms active against viral pathogens.
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