Huiwang Ai, PhD Professor “Molecular Biosensors; Spatiotemporal Regulation of Biological Signaling; Protein Engineering for Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”
Huan Bao, PhD Associate Professor “Biophysics of membrane pore formation; research and therapeutic applications of lipid nanoparticles.”
John H. Bushweller, PhD Professor “Drug Development Targeting Transcription Drivers in Cancer; Structure/Function Studies of Transcription Factor Drivers in Cancer”
Zygmunt Derewenda, PhD Harrison Distinguished Professor “Structure-function relationships in proteins”
Seham Ebrahim, PhD Assistant Professor “Cytoskeletal architecture, dynamics and roles in cellular physiology and disease; High-resolution live cell and tissue imaging”
Lu Gan, PhD Associate Professor “Chromosome organization; Nucleosome structure; Histone marks; Structural cell biology”
Brant Isakson, PhD Professor “Cell-cell communication in the blood vessel wall.”
Ahmad Jomaa, PhD Assistant Professor “Localisation of nascent proteins to sub-cellular compartments”
Anne Kenworthy, PhD Professor “Architecture and function of biological membranes”
Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD Professor “RNA regulatory networks and RNA binding proteins during cardiovascular development and in cardiovascular disease”
Ilya Levental, PhD Professor “Composition, Biophysics and Physiology of Cellular Membranes”
Wladek Minor, PhD Harrison Distinguished Professor “Structure-Function Relationships in Macromolecules; Infectious Diseases and Drug Discovery; Bioinformatics and Big Data; Scientific Reproducibility”
Gary Owens, PhD Robert M. Berne Professor of Cardiovascular Research “Identification of Factors and Mechanisms that Regulate the Stability of Late Stage Atherosclerotic Lesions and the Probability of Thromboembolic Events Including a Heart Attack or Stroke”
Ling Qi, PhD Andrew P. Somlyo Distinguished Professor and Chair “Delineate the physiological importance and structure-function relationship of ER-associated degradation in humans.”
Stefanie Redemann, PhD Associate Professor “Chromosome segregation and aneuploidy in meiosis and mitosis”
Gloria Sheynkman, PhD Assistant Professor “Proteoform Systems Biology: proteogenomic approaches to uncover the role of proteomic variation in human disease”
Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD Associate Professor “Identify the calcium signaling abnormalities that lead to vascular dysfunction and blood pressure elevation in cardiovascular disorders”
Avril Somlyo, PhD Professor “Novel signal transduction pathways in smooth muscles that regulate contractility and impact diseases of the vasculature, airway and gastrointestinal tract.”
Lukas Tamm, PhD Harrison Distinguished Professor “Biomembrane Structure and Function; Cell Entry of Enveloped Viruses; Neurosecretion by Exocytosis; Structure of Bacterial Pathogen Membrane Proteins; Lipid-Protein Interactions”
Meng-Feng Tsai, PhD Associate Professor “Molecular mechanisms and physiological functions of transporters and ion-channels, particularly Ca2+ transport proteins in mitochondria.””
Jarred Whitlock, PhD Assistant Professor “The formation, function, and signaling of multinucleated cells that maintain musculoskeletal system and underpin its pathological dysfunction.””
Jinghang Xie, PhD Assistant Professor “Molecular Imaging; Cancer Immunology; Vaccines; Antibiotic Resistance.”
Jochen Zimmer, PhD Professor and HHMI Investigator “Transport of biopolymers across biological membranes with a particular interest in polysaccharide and protein translocation”
Joint Appointment Faculty
David Cafiso, PhD Professor, Chemistry “Molecular Mechanisms for Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling”
Linda Columbus, PhD Professor “Biophysical Chemistry: Membrane protein structure, function, and dynamics”
Jessica Connelly, PhD Professor, Psychology “Epigenetic mechanisms involved in complex human disease”
Edward Egelman, PhD Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics “Structure and Function of Macromolecular Complexes Using Electron Microscopy”
Andreas Gahlman, PhD Associate Professor, Chemistry “Super-resolution fluorescence imaging of bacterial cells”
Lian-Wang Guo, PhD Tenured Professor, Surgery “Pathophysiological mechanisms and impact of cell state transitions.”
Victor Laubach, PhD Professor, Surgery “Understanding mechanisms of ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury after lung transplantation to identifying therapeutic targets.”
Coleen McNamara, MD Professor of Medicine/Cardiovascular Division, Beirne B. Carter Professor of Immunology and Director of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, Medicine: Cardiovascular Medicine “Immune System Regulation of Cardiometabolic Disease.”
Matthew Wolf, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Medicine: Cardiovascular Medicine “Identification of genes and pathways that cause or modify cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure.”
Research Faculty
Ramon Ayon, PhD Research Instructor “Novel Signaling Networks in the Regulation of Vascular Contractility: Role of the Sodium Calcium Exchanger (NCX1)”
David Cooper, PhD Assistant Professor of Research “Data management and analysis for scientific endeavors, particularly X-ray crystallography.”
Rebecca Deaton, PhD Assistant Professor of Research “Identification of factors that regulate atherosclerotic plaque stability.”
Urszula Derewenda, PhD Assistant Professor of Research “Our primary interest is in the mechanisms by which protein molecules accomplish their diverse biological tasks.”
Bing Han, PhD Assistant Professor of Research “Structure and functions of caveolin proteins.”
Volker Kiessling, PhD Associate Professor of Research “Fusion of secretory vesicles with the plasma membrane. Fusion of viral particles with target membranes during viral infection.”
Teri Lansdell, PhD Assistant Professor of Research “Determine how cardiovascular disease influences hormonal and metabolic contributions to the development of dementia.”
Kandice Levental, PhD Associate Professor of Research “Fundamental mechanisms by which membranes and dietary lipids regulate cell physiology.”
Michael Purdy, PhD Assistant Professor of Research “Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins.”
Ajit Tiwari, PhD Assistant Professor of Research “Membrane trafficking, bacterial toxin endocytosis, angiogenesis and Alzheimer’s disease.”
Sunil Verma, PhD Assistant Professor “RNA Biology: RNA binding protein and pre-mRNA processing in Cardiovascular Disease.”
Vitaly Zimyanin, PhD Research Assistant Professor “looking to uncover and understand the underlying principles of spindle assembly on a nano-scale level.”
Emeritus Faculty
Howard Kutchai, PhD Emeritus Professor “Quaternary Structure of Calcium-ATPases of sarcoplasmic reticulum and Na, K-ATPase and Its Regulatory Significance.”
Joel Linden, PhD Emeritus Professor “Adenosine receptor signaling”
Robert Nakamoto, PhD Emeritus Professor “Structure-Function of Active Transporters.”
Zhifeng Shao, PhD Emeritus Professor “Molecular Imaging and Single Molecule Biophysics”
Mark Yeager, MD, PhD Harrison Distinguished Emeritus Professor “Cardiac Gap Junction Membrane Channels / IntegrinsWater Channels / Rotavirus / Reovirus / Retrovirus.”
