Research
Faculty members are currently conducting basic and/or clinical research in the following laboratories:
- Barrett: insulin action and how it is altered by insulin resistance, obesity, and diabetes mellitus
- Basu: understanding the integrative physiology of glucose metabolism in people with diabetes and people without diabetes
- Carey: hormonal control of blood pressure and hypertension
- Culver: obesity and its role in kidney disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes
- Farhy: regulation of pancreatic hormone secretions
- Ferris: mechanisms of cognitive decline associated with diabetes
- Horton: Type 1 diabetes and cardiovascular function
- Keller: insulin signaling and insulin-regulated membrane trafficking
- Kim: Pathophysiology of PCOS in women of later reproductive age
- Liu: insulin’s vascular action and its relation to insulin’s metabolic action and cardiovascular complications of diabetes
- Marshall: Polycystic ovary syndrome and GnRH pulsatility
- McCartney: causes of abnormal GnRH pulses and abnormal gonadotropin secretion in adolescent and adult polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS)
- Padia: obesity and hypertension
- Shupnik: hormonal regulation of gene expression and influence on physiological and pathophysiological processes
- Siragy: biology and pathophysiology of angiotensin subtype receptors in cardiovascular system