Name/Degree | Rank | Appointments | Role | Research Interests |
Amos-Landgraf, James / PhD | Associate Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology | Mentor, Core Faculty | Animal models of human colon cancer and potential chemotherapeutic development |
Anderson, Deborah / PhD | Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology | Mentor | Host pathogen interactions involved in plague disease and immunity |
Balboula, Ahmed / DVM, PhD | Assistant Professor | Animal sciences | Mentor | Reproductive biology |
Bender, Shawn / PhD | Associate Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Mentor | Mechanisms of coronary and cardiac dysfunction in swine and mouse models |
Brown, Pamela / PhD | Associate Professor | Biological Sciences | Mentor | Microbial cell biology |
Bryda, Elizabeth / PhD | Curators’ Distinguished Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology; Director, Rat Resource and Research Center | Program Co-Director, Mentor | Molecular genetics of human disease using animal models |
Chade, Alejandro R. / MD | Professor | Medical Pharmacology and Physiology | Mentor | Swine Models of Chronic Kidney Disease and Heart Failure. High-Resolution imaging. Therapeutic development to protect the kidney and the heart |
Chen, Shiyou / DVM, PhD | Professor, W. Alton Jones Endowed Chair in Surgical Research | Surgery | Mentor | Vascular diseases, fatty liver disease |
Clarke, Lane / DVM, PhD | Professor | Biomedical Sciences; Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center | Mentor | Stem cell biology and goblet cell function in normal and cystic fibrosis small intestine |
Coates, Joan / DVM, MS | Professor | Veterinary Medicine and Surgery | Mentor | Comparative and translational research of neurodegenerative disease, i.e. ALS |
Cook, Jimi / DVM, PhD | William and Kathryn Allen Distinguished Professor | Orthopaedic Surgery (Veterinary Medicine and Surgery) | Mentor | Comparative orthopaedic surgery; arthritis |
Cornelison, Dawn / PhD | Professor | Biological Sciences | Mentor | Skeletal muscle development and regeneration |
Cummings, Kevin / PhD | Associate Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Mentor | CNS control of cardio-respiratory function |
Davis, Daniel / PhD | Assistant Research Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology | Mentor | Genetic engineering and gene therapy for rare human diseases |
De Figueiredo, Paul / PhD | Professor | Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Veterinary Pathobiology | Mentor | Host mechanisms that control intracellular parasitism by viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens |
Domeier, Timothy L. / PhD | Associate Professor | Medical Pharmacology and Physiology | Mentor | Changes in intracellular concentration of calcium within heart muscle during heart disease |
Ericsson, Aaron / DVM, PhD | Associate Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology, Director; MU Metagenomics Center | Mentor; Core Faculty | Influence of gut microbiota on animal models of disease; role of commensal gut microbiota in intestinal inflammation and colitis-associated colorectal cancer; segmented filamentous bacteria and its influence on the development and function of intestinal immune responses |
Gil Pagés, Diana / PhD | Associate Professor | Surgery, MMI, Bio-engineering | Mentor | Immunology, Cancer immunotherapy |
Johnson, Marc / PhD | Professor | Molecular Microbiology & Immunology | Mentor | Viral replication |
Kline, David / PhD | Associate Professor | Biomedical Sciences; Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center | Mentor | Synaptic and neuronal plasticity in the brain during hypoxia |
Lever, Teresa / PhD | Associate Professor | Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery | Mentor | Mechanisms of cranial neuropathy and neuroplasticity in dysphagia |
Lorson, Chris / PhD | Curators’ Distinguished Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology (Molecular Microbiology & Immunology) | Mentor | Translational research, drug development and gene therapy in neurodegeneration, including Spinal Muscular Atrophy |
Ma, Wenjun / PhD | Associate Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology | Mentor | Viral diseases of animals, with an emphasis on emerging zoonotic viral infections |
Martinez-Lemus, Luis A. / DVM, PhD | Professor | Medical Pharmacology and Physiology | Mentor | Vascular remodeling |
McDonald, Kerry / PhD | Professor | Medical Pharmacology and Physiology | Mentor | Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate striated muscle contraction and the ways that these processes are altered by disease and other physiological stresses such as exercise |
Mohan, Rajiv / PhD | Professor | Ophthalmology (Veterinary Medicine and Surgery) | Mentor | Corneal gene therapy, nanomedicine, and wound healing. |
Nichols, Nicole / PhD | Assistant Professor | Biomedical Sciences | Mentor | Mechanisms of respiratory plasticity in models of motor neuron death |
Padilla, Jaume / PhD | Associate Professor | Nutrition and Exercise Physiology; Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center | Mentor | Physiological and molecular links between physical inactivity, metabolic disease and vascular complications |
Parks, Elizabeth / PhD | Professor | Nutrition and Exercise Physiology | Mentor | Liver metabolism, body weight regulation |
Phillips, Charlotte / PhD | Professor | Biochemistry (Child Health, Dermatology) | Mentor | Muscle and skeletal interactions and related therapeutic agents in inherited and acquired diseases of bone disorders |
Picking, Wendy / PhD | Professor | Veterinary Pathobiology | Mentor | Bacterial protein subunit vaccines |
Rector, R. Scott / PhD | Associate Professor | Nutrition and Exercise Physiology | Mentor | Causes of the development and progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) |
Reinero, Carol / DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Internal Med) | Professor | Veterinary Medicine and Surgery | Mentor | Translational models of respiratory disease; microbiome studies of low biomass sites; immunology |
Schrum, Adam / PhD | Associate Professor | Molecular Microbiology and Immunology | Mentor | Physiologic signaling networks and how they function in molecular and cellular immunity |
Schulz, Laura / PhD | Associate Professor | Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health | Mentor | Placental development in rodent models |
Segal, Steven / PhD | Margaret P. Mulligan Distinguished Professor in Medical Research; Chancellor’s Professor of Research Excellence | Medical Pharmacology and Physiology (Internal Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Bioengineering); Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center | Mentor | Blood flow control in the microcirculation, skeletal muscle, exercise, aging |
Shirwan, Haval / PhD | Professor | Child Health | Mentor | Autoimmunity, transplantation tolerance, vaccines, cancer immunoprevention and therapy |
Smith, Jeffrey / PhD | Professor | Radiology | Mentor | Design, synthesis, purification, characterization and evaluation of peptide-based radiopharmaceuticals for prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy using PET, SPECT, CT and MRI imaging modalities |
Teixeiro, Emma / PhD | Associate Professor | Molecular Microbiology and Immunology | Mentor | T cell immune responses against infection and cancer |
Thakkar, Mahesh / PhD | Professor | Neurology | Mentor | Sleep and sleep disorders |
Whiting, Rebecca / PhD | Assistant Professor | Ophthalmology | Mentor | Translational therapeutics for retinal and neurodegenerative disease in canine models |