Joseph K. Agyin, Ph.D. - Drug Discovery, Experimental Therapeutics, Organic Chemistry

Yidong Bai, Ph.D. - Mitochondria, genetics, mitochondrial diseases, aging, cancer

Alex Bishop, Ph.D. - DNA repair, homologous recombination, functional genomics, genetic and environmental interactions, aging, carcinogenesis, animal models

Ivan L. Cameron, Ph.D. - Omega3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, breast cancer, colon cancer, nutrition, oxidative stress

Lily Q. Dong, Ph.D. - Obesity and type 2 diabetes

Brian Herman, Ph.D. - Apoptosis, mitochondria, cancer, aging, optical imaging

Robert J. Klebe, Ph.D. - Tissue engineering, cell adhesion proteins, metastasis

Ellen Kraig, Ph.D. - Molecular, immunology, periodontitis, autoimmunity, transcription, molecular genetics

Pamela L. Larsen, Ph.D. - Molecular genetics, aging, development, expression analysis, functional genomics, genetic and environmental interactions and C. elegans physiology.

Robin J. Leach, Ph.D. - Genetics, prostate cancer, paget disease of the bone, chromosome 18, tumor suppressor gene

James D. Lechleiter, Ph.D. - Mitochondrial metabolism, Astrocyte neuroprotection, Ischemia/brain injury, In vivo imaging

Charleen M. Moore, Ph.D. - aging, animal models, comparative cytogenetics

William W. Morgan. Ph.D. - Tyrosine hydroxylase, gene expression, Parkinson's disease, oxidative stress, inflammation, dopamine

Susan L. Naylor, Ph.D. - Tumor suppressor genes, genomics, prostate cancer, animal models

Babatunde O. Oyajobi, M.B., B. Ch., Ph.D. - Multiple myeloma, breast cancer, animal models of cancer-induced bone diseases, experimental therapeutics, targeted transgenesis, signal transduction

Luiz Otavio F. Penalva, Ph.D. - Post-transcriptional regulation, RNA binding proteins, cancer genomics

Olivia Pereira-Smith, Ph.D. - replicative senescence, immortalization, chromatin remodeling, transcriptional regulation

Qitao Ran, Ph.D. - Aging, transgenic mice, knockout mice, Alzheimer's, neurodegeneration, apoptosis, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation

Russell J. Reiter, Ph.D. - Aging, antioxidants, melatonin and the pineal gland

Arlan Richardson, Ph.D. - Aging, transgenic and knockout mice, oxidative stress, protein oxidation

Alan Y. Sakaguchi, Ph.D. - Telomere binding proteins, role of telomeres in human disease and aging

Sue C. Stacy, Ph.D. - Aging, molecular immunology, autoimmunity

LuZhe Sun, Ph.D. - Signal transduction, Cell cycle, Cell senescence, Cancer biology, Experimental therapeutics

Kristine S. Vogel, Ph.D. - Mouse models for nervous system tumors, Apoptosis in the sympathoadrenal lineage, DNA damage and repair in the peripheral nervous system, Regulation of Nf1 gene expression during development, Adapting innovative technologies for medical education in the basic sciences

Christi A. Walter, Ph.D. - DNA repair, mutagenesis, aging, transgenic mice, spermatogenesis, carcinogenesis

Frank J. Weaker, Ph.D. - Education, virtual reality, histology

Jianhua Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. - Mechanisms of cell death by autophagy and apoptosis, Genetic and genomic control of cancer and aging

CSB Joint Appointed Faculty Research Interests

Patricia Dahia, M.D., Ph.D. - Molecular Genetics, Microarray-based gene sets, Intersection of Oncogenic Pathways, Gene Discovery, Cancer Susceptibility

Robert A. Marciniak, Ph.D. - telomerase, aging, Werner syndrome, cell regulation

Susan S. Padalecki, Ph.D. - Prostate cancer, bladder cancer, bone metastases, animal models of cancer-induced bone diseases, experimental therapeutics, tumor suppressor genes

Faculty Research Interests from other Departments and Institutions

Patricia Camacho, Ph.D. - cell signaling

James W. Freeman, Ph.D. - molecular biology and experimental therapeutics of pancreatic cancer

Ken M. Hargreaves, DDS, Ph.D. - Pain Analgesics Inflammation Hyperalgesia Clinical Pain Research

Jack Lancaster, Ph.D. - Brain mapping, research imaging, mathematical models

Merry L. Lindsey, Ph.D. - matrix metalloproteinases, left ventricular remodeling, extracellular matrix, aging, inflammation, macrophages, fibroblasts, myocardial infarction, mice models

James R. Smith, Ph.D. - aging, senescence, gene expression, cell growth, apoptosis

Randy Strong, Ph.D. - gene expression, aging