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Research Interests

Cancer Biology and Therapeutics

  • Ying Huang, MD, PhD
    Professor
    Research Interests:

    Oncogenic signaling in cellular transformation and apoptosis; tumor suppressor genes.

  • M Saeed Sheikh, MD, PhD
    Professor
    Research Interests:

    Apoptotic signal transduction and cancer biology.

Cardiovascular Science

Cell Signaling

  • Richard JH Wojcikiewicz, PhD
    Professor and Chair
    Research 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 Professor
    Research 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 Professor
    Research 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
    Professor
    Research 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

Macrophages and Wound Healing

  • Norifumi Urao, MD/PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Research 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
    Professor
    Research 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. 

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