Research Interests
Cancer Biology and Therapeutics
- M Saeed Sheikh, MD, PhD
ProfessorResearch Interests:Apoptotic signal transduction and cancer biology.
Cardiovascular Science
- David Auerbach, PhD
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:Cellular, animal, and clinical approaches to investigate the susceptibility and mechanisms for electrical disturbances in both the brain (seizures) and heart (arrhythmias.)
CURE Epilepsy Foundation: The Cameron Boyce Foundation and CURE Epilepsy Partner to Fund New SUDEP Research (1/2022)
ABC News (Washington, DC): Victor and Libby Boyce raise epilepsy awareness in honor of late son Cameron (1/2022)
Upstate News: Upstate Professor Auerbach receives International CURE Epilepsy award (11/2021)
Upstate Health Link on Air and Upstate News: Scientist hopes study of electrical disturbances in the heart and brain could lead to new therapies (7/2020)
Pediheart Podcast # 5: Antiseizure and AntiDepressants in LQTS (2/23/18)
Eureka Alert: The heart-brain connection: The link between LQTS and seizures (7/29/16)
- Arkadii Perzov, PhD
ProfessorResearch Interests:Biophysical mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias; fluorescence imaging.
- Nathan Tucker, PhD
Associate Professor - Norifumi Urao, MD/PhD
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:Mechanism of wound healing and tissue repair/bone marrow stem cell reactivity to stress and injury/oxidative stress and epigenetic gene regulation
- Richard Veenstra, PhD
ProfessorResearch Interests:Regulation of connexin-specific-gap-junctions; gap junction channel biophysics.
- Xinrui Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cell Signaling
- Xinrui Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor - Richard JH Wojcikiewicz, PhD
Professor and ChairResearch Interests:Intracellular signaling via InsP3 receptors and their regulation by the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway and Bcl-2 family proteins.
Drug Discovery and Development
- Yamin Li, PhD
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:Development of lipid nanoparticles for the delivery of small molecule drugs, proteins, and DNA/RNA for gene therapy, cancer immunotherapy, mRNA vaccines, etc.
- Hong Lu, PhD
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:- Nuclear receptors in regulation of hepatic gene expression and liver diseases
- Progression of alcoholic/non-alcoholic fatty liver to steatohepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and liver cancer
- Development of liver-targeting prodrugs and liver-specific delivery of genes/proteins
- Liver-lung-dual-specific mRNA delivery for the treatment of ARDS and sepsis
- Juntao Luo, PhD
ProfessorResearch Interests:Nanomedicine, drug delivery, cancer imaging and cancer treatment; gene delivery and gene therapy, protein/peptide delivery. biomaterials in tissue engineering; combinatorial chemistry and drug discovery; High throughput screening; microarrays.
Epilepsy
- David Auerbach, PhD
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:Cellular, animal, and clinical approaches to investigate the susceptibility and mechanisms for electrical disturbances in both the brain (seizures) and heart (arrhythmias.)
CURE Epilepsy Foundation: The Cameron Boyce Foundation and CURE Epilepsy Partner to Fund New SUDEP Research (1/2022)
ABC News (Washington, DC): Victor and Libby Boyce raise epilepsy awareness in honor of late son Cameron (1/2022)
Upstate News: Upstate Professor Auerbach receives International CURE Epilepsy award (11/2021)
Upstate Health Link on Air and Upstate News: Scientist hopes study of electrical disturbances in the heart and brain could lead to new therapies (7/2020)
Pediheart Podcast # 5: Antiseizure and AntiDepressants in LQTS (2/23/18)
Eureka Alert: The heart-brain connection: The link between LQTS and seizures (7/29/16)
Macrophages and Wound Healing
- Norifumi Urao, MD/PhD
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:Mechanism of wound healing and tissue repair/bone marrow stem cell reactivity to stress and injury/oxidative stress and epigenetic gene regulation
Sepsis and Immune Modulation
- Juntao Luo, PhD
ProfessorResearch Interests:Nanomedicine, drug delivery, cancer imaging and cancer treatment; gene delivery and gene therapy, protein/peptide delivery. biomaterials in tissue engineering; combinatorial chemistry and drug discovery; High throughput screening; microarrays.