Diabetes and Obesity Track Preceptors
| Faculty Name | Research Interest | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Breyer, Richard | Prostaglandin E2 Receptor Signaling | Medicine & Nephrology |
| Collins, Sheila | Biochemistry of Metabolic Disease | Medicine |
| Davies, Sean S. | Oxidative Stress | Pharmacology |
Clinical Research, Genetics, and Epidemiology
| Faculty Name | Research Interest | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Barkin, Shari | Pediatric Obesity | Pediatrics |
| Biaggioni, Italo | Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Hypertension and Obesity | Clinical Pharmacology |
| Cox, Nancy | Genomics | Medicine |
| Elasy, Thomas | Relapse Prevention in Diabetes | Medicine |
| Giri, Ayush | Women's Health in Diabetes/Obesity | Medicine |
| Jaser, Sarah | Risk Factors and Interventions in T1D | Pediatrics |
| Luther, Matt | Aldosterone & Islet Function | Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology |
| Mulvaney, Shelagh | Improvement of Self-Management of Diabetes | Nursing & Pediatrics |
| Rothman, Russell | Patient Education in Diabetes | Medicine |
| Roumie, Christianne | Epidemiology in Pediatric Diabetes | Medicine |
| Russell, William E. | ERB Signalling in Liver Regeneration | Pediatrics |
| Schlundt, David G. | Enviornmental Influences on Diabetes & Obesity | Psychology |
| Yu, Danxia | Nutritional and Molecular Epidemiology | Medicine |
Complications Related to Diabetes
| Faculty Name | Research Interest | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Brantley, Milam A. | Diabetic Retinopathy | Ophthalmology |
| Chaum, Ed | Diabetic Retinopathy | Ophthalmology |
| Fogo, Agnes B. | Glomerulosclerosis-Vascular Changes | Pathology |
| Guelcher, Scott | Biomaterials for Orthopaedic Surgery | Biomolecular Engineering |
| Linton, MacRae | Animal Models of Atherosclerosis | Medicine |
| Vickers, Kasey | microRNA Communication and Systemic Homeostasis | Medicine |
| Zent, Roy | Cell-extracellular Matrix Interactions in Kidneys | Medicine & Nephrology |
In Vivo Metabolic Regulation and Obesity
| Faculty Name | Research Interest | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Abumrad, Naji N. | Obesity/Bariatric Surgery | Surgery |
| Aronoff, David | Placental Inflammation in Gestational Diabetes | Medicine |
| Avison, Malcolm | CNS Development and Function | Pharmacology |
| Ayala, Julio | Gut-brain Interactions in Energy Balance | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Bingham, Nathan | Pediatric Metabolic Disease | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Flynn, C. Robb | Diabetes and Bariatric Surgery | Surgery |
| Gamboa, Alfredo | CNS and Blood Pressure | Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology |
| Gregory, Justin | Insulin Resistance | Pediatrics |
| Hulgan, Todd | Translational Mitochondrial Genomics in HIV | Medicine |
| Koethe, John | Adiposity and Immune Activation | Medicine |
| McGuinness, Owen | Metabolism & Nutritional Support in Vivo | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Shibao, Cyndya | Hypertension and Hypotension in Diabetes | Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology |
| Shoemaker, Ashley | Pseudohypoparathyroidism | Pediatrics |
| Silver, Heidi | Diet & Obesity | Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition |
| Simerly, Richard | Brain & Physiology Metabolic Regulation | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Stafford, John | Obesity & Lipid Metabolism | Medicine |
| Wasserman, David | Metabolism & Exercise | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Young, Jamey | Obesity & Metabolic Disorders | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
Islet Development, Biology, and Immunology
| Faculty Name | Research Interest | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Aune, Thomas | Type 1 Diabetes Genes/Regulating T cells | Medicine & Rheumatology |
| Bellan, Leon | Microfluidics | Mechanical Engineering |
| Bonami, Rachel | Islet Autoantibodies as Biomarkers | Medicine & Rheumatology |
| Chen, Wenbiao | Metabolism, Pancreatic Islet Development | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Dean, Danielle | Alpha-cell Proliferation and Dysfunction in Diabetes | Medicine |
| Gannon, Maureen | Molecular & Cell Biology of Pancreas Development | Medicine |
| Jacobson, David | Pancreatic Islet & Hormone Secretion | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Kaverina, Irina | Microtubule-actin Cytoskeleton Interplay and Cell Motility | Medicine |
| Magnuson, Mark A. | Stem Cell Biology | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Moore, Daniel | Loss of Immune Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes | Pediatrics & Endocrinology |
| O'Brien, Richard M. | Gene Regulation by Insulin; Islet Gene Expression | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Powers, Alvin C. | Pancreatic Islet Function & Growth | Medicine |
| Wright, Christopher | Pancreas Development | Cell Biology |
Digestive Disease Research Track Preceptors
| Faculty Name | Research Interest | Department |
| Abumrad, Naji | Mechanisms involved in improved glucose handling following bariaratric surgery | Surgery |
| Beauchamp, R. Daniel | Colorectal carcinogenesis, the biology of cancer cell invasion and metastasis, and in the identification of novel molecular biomarkers and therapeutic targets in colorectal and other alimentary tract malignancies | Surgery |
| Coffey, Robert | The role of EGF receptor (EGFR) and its ligands in epithelial cell growth, differentiation and neoplasia | Medicine |
| Cover, Timothy | Bacteria-host interactions, bacterial toxins, Helicobacter pylori, gastric cancer | Medicine |
| El-Rifai, Wael | Cancer Genetics, Molecular Biology, upper gastrointestinal cancer, Barrett's adenocarcinoma, gastric cancer | Surgery |
| Fingleton, Barbara | Understanding function and how to therapeutically target inflammatory molecules in colitis and colon cancer | Cancer Biology |
| Gannon, Maureen | We study the role of genes and signaling pathways involved in the development and function of specific cell types within the pancreas | Medicine |
| Goldenring, James | Vesicle trafficking and recycling pathways that regulate the function of apical membrane specializations in polarized kidney and gastrointestinal epithelial cells | Surgery |
| Hasty, Alyssa | Obesity-related increases in adipose tissue macrophages leading to inflammation and insulin resistance | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Lee, Ethan | Mechanism of Wnt signal transduction in development and disease | Cell & Developmental Biology |
| Manning, H. Charles | Molecular imaging, chemistry, small-molecule discovery, therapeutic efficacy screening, clinical trial modeling, imaging probe development, imaging validation | Radiology |
| Peek, Richard | Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer | Medicine |
| Van Kaer, Luc | Antigen presentation and lymphocyte development | Pathology |
| Wasserman, David | Pathogenesis of insulin resistance in liver and muscle | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Williams, Christopher | Epigenetic control of intestinal epithelial wound healing and repair programs and relationship to colorectal oncogenesis | Medicine |
| Wilson, Keith | Mucosal immunology, mechanisms of inflammation, oxidative stress and gastrointestinal carcinogenesis, host-pathogen interactions | Medicine |