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Faculty Name E-mail Address	Research Interests	Department	IGP Curricula
Michael Abecassis, MD mabecass@nmh.org	Cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation	Surgery	IMP, MBG
Sara Ahlgren, PhD s-ahlgren@northwestern.edu	Craniofacial growth and development	Pediatrics	Development, MBG
Wayne Anderson, PhD wf-anderson@northwestern.edu	Crystallography of protein-protein interactions	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Pharm/Tox, SBB
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD h-ardehali@northwestern.edu	Role of mitochondria in ischemic heart disease and cell death	Medicine	Cell, MBG
Raj Awatramani, PhD r-awatramani@northwestern.edu	Cell fate specification in the mammalian CNS	Neurology	Neuro, Development, MBG
Terry Barrett, MD tabarrett@northwestern.edu	Beta catenin signaling in intestinal stem cells	Medicine and Microbiology-Immunology	Cancer, IMP
James Bartles, PhD j-bartles@northwestern.edu	Actin cytoskeleton in sensory and neuronal cells	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell
Daniel Batlle, MD d-Batlle@northwestern.edu	Regulation of ion transport in renal tubular cells.	Medicine	Cell, MBG
Raymond Bergan, MD r-bergan@northwestern.edu	Therapeutic modulation of adhesion and motility in human prostate cells	Medicine, Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center	Cancer, Pharm/Tox
Lester Binder, PhD l-binder@northwestern.edu	Microtubule proteins; neurodegenerative disease.	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, Neurobiology
Martha C. Bohn, Ph.D. m-bohn@northwestern.edu	Neurotrophic Factors and Gene Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases	Pediatrics and Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox
Markus Bredel, MD, PhD m-bredel@northwestern.edu	Human Brain Tumors: Unraveling Disease and Resistance Biology	Neurological Surgery	Cancer, MBG
Melissa Brown, PhD m-brown12@northwestern.edu	Transcriptional control of IL-4 expression; mast cells in autoimmunity	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP
Paul Bryce, PhD p-bryce@northwestern.edu	Roles for histamine in immune sensitization and allergy	Medicine	IMP, MBG
Irina Budunova, MD, PhD i-budunova@northwestern.edu	Cell signaling and intercellular communication in carcinogenesis	Dermatology	Cancer, Cell, MBG
Serdar Bulun, MD s-bulun@northwestern.edu	Estrogen metabolism in breast cancer, endometriosis, and uterine fibroids	Obstetrics and Gynecology	Cancer
Debabrata Chakravarti, PhD debu@northwestern.edu	Steroid hormone and vitamin signaling; Regulation of histone/chromatin modification	Obstetrics and Gynecology	MBG, Pharm/Tox
Navdeep S. Chandel, PhD nav@northwestern.edu	Tumor cell responses to oxygen deprivation	Medicine	Cancer, Cell
Chonghui Cheng, MD, PhD chengc@northwestern.edu	Alternative splicing in cancer development	Medicine	Cancer, MBG
Anjen Chenn, MD, PhD achenn@northwestern.edu	Developmental neurobiology in the mamammalian CNS	Pathology	Cancer, Cell, Developmental Biology, MBG, Neurobiology
Rex Chisholm, PhD r-chisholm@northwestern.edu	Cell motility; cell movement during morphogenesis; molecular genetics of motor molecules; myosin; dynein; molecular motors and disease	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cancer, Cell, Developmental, MBG
Nicholas Cianciotto, PhD n-cianciotto@northwestern.edu	Molecular pathogenesis, Legionella pneumophilia, Legionnaires' disease	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP, MBG
Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD clevenger@northwestern.edu	Prolactin receptor in breast cancer and mammary gland development	Pathology	Cancer, MBG
Joan Cook-Mills, PhD j-cook-mills@northwestern.edu	Endothelial cell function during allergic disease	Medicine	Cell, IMP, MBG
John Crispino, PhD j-crispino@northwestern.edu	Transcriptional regulation of normal and malignant blood cell development	Medicine	Cancer, MBG
Vincent L. Cryns, MD v-cryns@northwestern.edu	Caspase Signaling in Apoptosis	Medicine	Cancer, Cell
Marian Dagosto, PhD m-dagosto@northwestern.edu	Primate evolution: functional morphology, systematics, paleontology	Cell & Molecular Biology	Evolutionary
Syamal Datta, MD skd257@northwestern.edu	Systemic Autoimmunity, Tolerance, Apoptosis	Medicine	IMP
Christine DiDonato, PhD c-didonato@northwestern.edu	Molecular basis of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)	Pediatrics	MBG, Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox
Margarita Dubocovich, PhD mdubo@northwestern.edu	Monoamine receptors in the retina; brain.	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox,, SBB
Andrea Dunaif, MD a-dunaif@northwestern.edu	Genetic and molecular basis of Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)	Medicine	MBG
Elizabeth Eklund, MD e-eklund@northwestern.edu	Molecular biology of late myeloid differentiation	Medicine	Cancer, Developmental, MBG
David Engman, MD, PhD d-engman@northwestern.edu	Molecular genetics, autoimmunity, heat shock proteins, parasites, heart disease	Pathology	Cell, IMP, MBG
Adriana Ferreira, MD, PhD a-ferreira@northwestern.edu	Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurite elongation in central neurons	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, Neurobiology
Douglas Freymann, PhD freymann@northwestern.edu	X-ray crystallography of GTPase, signal recognition particle.	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	SBB, Pharm/Tox
Jaime García-Añoveros, PhD anoveros@northwestern.edu	Genetic dissection of hearing, touch and pain in mammals and in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans	Anesthesiology	Neuro, MBG
Vladimir Gelfand, PhD vgelfand@northwestern.edu	Cytoskeleton assembly and function; biochemistry of microtubules; mechanisms and regulation of intracellular transport	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, Cancer, MBG, Neurobiology
Robert Goldman, PhD r-goldman@northwestern.edu	Cell motility; structure and function of cytoplasmic filament systems	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cancer, Cell
Cara Gottardi, PhD c-gottardi@northwestern.edu	Roles for catenins and cadherins in cell adhesion	Medicine	Cancer, Cell, MBG
Kathleen Green, PhD kgreen@northwestern.edu	Molecular and cellular analysis of desmosomes and keratins.	Pathology	Cancer, Cell
Richard M. Green, MD r-green2@northwestern.edu	Molecular mechanisms and genetics of non-alcoholic fatty liver disorders	Medicine	MBG
Adrian Gross, MD a-gross@northwestern.edu	Structure and function of ion channels	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	SBB, Pharm/Tox
Kasturi Haldar, PhD k-haldar@northwestern.edu	Regulation of pathogenic vacuoles	Pathology	IMP, Cell
Ann Harris, PhD ann-harris@northwestern.edu	Regulation of CFTR gene expression; mucin glycobiology	Pediatrics	Cancer, Cell, MBG
Alan Hauser, MD, PhD ahauser@northwestern.edu	Role of type III secretion in Pseudomonas virulence.	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP
Xiaolin He, PhD x-he@northwestern.edu	Structural mechanisms of transmembrane signaling events in cancer and neural growth	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Cancer, Neurology, MBG, Pharm-Tox, SBB
Rosario Hernandez, DDS m-hernandez-neufeld@northwestern.edu	Axonal degeneration in Glaucoma	Ophthalmology	Neurobiology, MBG
Laura Herzing, PhD l-herzing@northwestern.edu	Epigenetics of neurodevelopmental, psychiatric and seizure disorders	Pediatrics	MBG, Neurobiology, Developmental
Thomas Hope, PhD thope@northwestern.edu	Viral posttranscriptional regulatory elements and cell biology of HIV	Cell & Molecular Biology	IMP, Cell Biology, MBG
Sui Huang, PhD s-huang2@northwestern.edu	The Perinucleolar Compartment and Malignant Transformation	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, MBG
Philip Iannaccone, MD, PhD pmi@northwestern.edu	Tumor clonality; preimplantation; reproductive toxicity.	Pediatrics	Cancer, Cell, Developmental
Kouichi Iwasaki, PhD k-iwasaki@northwestern.edu	Molecular biology and genetics of a rhythmic behavior	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Neurobiology, MBG
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD ljameson@northwestern.edu	Nuclear receptors, gene transcription; sex determination; genetic diseases	Medicine	Cancer, Developmental, MBG
Jacqueline S. Jeruss, MD, PhD j-jeruss@md.northwestern.edu	Action and Signaling in Breast Cancer: Disease Development and Progression	Surgery	Cancer, MBG
Jonathan Jones, PhD j-jones3@northwestern.edu	Intercellular junctions; development of epithelial tissues.	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cancer, Cell
Geoffrey Kansas, PhD gsk@northwestern.edu	Selections in leukocyte adhesion and migration.	Microbiology-Immunology	Cancer, Cell, IMP, MBG
William Karpus, PhD w-karpus@northwestern.edu	Pathogenesis and regulation of EAE, a model for MS.	Pathology	Cancer, IMP, MBG, Neurobiology
Dixon Kaufman, MD, PHD d-kaufman2@northwestern.edu	Immunobiology Of Islet Transplant Rejection	Surgery	IMP
John A. Kessler, MD jakessler@northwestern.edu	Stem cell biology and regenerative neuroscience	Neurology	Neurobiology, Developmental, MBG
Khashayarsha Khazaie, PhD, DSc khazaie@northwestern.edu	Understanding Immune Evasion and Inflammation in Cancer	Medicine	Cancer, IMP
Byung Kim, PhD bskim@northwestern.edu	Antigen processing, T cell activation, viral immunity, viral disease	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP, MBG
J. Julie Kim, PhD j-kim4@northwestern.edu	Molecular events in the endometrium during early pregnancy, endometriosis and endometrial cancer	Obstetrics and Gynecology	IMP, MBG
Raj Kishore, PhD r-kishore@northwestern.edu	Roles of inflammatory cytokines, stem cells, and alcohol consumption in heart disease	Medicine	Cell, MBG
Hiroaki Kiyokawa, MD, PhD kiyokawa@northwestern.edu	Roles of cell cycle-regulatory proteins in differentiation, senescence and apoptosis	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Cancer, MBG
David Klumpp, PhD d-klumpp@northwestern.edu	Molecular pathogenesis of urinary tract infections	Urology	IMP
Michael Klüppel, PhD m-kluppel@northwestern.edu	Chondroitin sulfate in growth factor signaling, development and cancer	Pediatrics	Development, Cancer
Jhumku D. Kohtz, Ph.D. j-kohtz@northwestern.edu	Signals involved in forebrain development	Pediatrics	Development, Neurobiology
Peter Kopp, MD p-kopp@northwestern.edu	Genetic and molecular basis of thyroid and endocrine disease	Medicine	MBG
James Kramer, PhD jkramer@northwestern.edu	Molecular genetics of extracellular matrix in C. elegans development	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, Developmental, MBG
Douglas A. Kuperman, PhD d-kuperman@northwestern.edu	Mechanisms of asthma pathogenesis	Medicine	IMP, MBG
Lou Laimins, PhD l-laimins@northwestern.edu	In vitro studies of papillomavirus infection, cancer biology and gene expression.	Microbiology-Immunology	Cancer, IMP, MBG
Wyndham Lathem, PhD lathem@northwestern.edu	Host-pathogen interactions during primary pneumonic plague	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP
Chung Lee, PhD c-lee7@northwestern.edu	Role of hormones in tumor growth.	Urology	Cancer
Jonathan Leis, PhD j-leis@northwestern.edu	Mechanism of retrovirus replication; reverse transcription, integration, proteolytic processing, and assembly	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP, MBG
Honglin Li, PhD h-li2@northwestern.edu	Roles of caspases and Bcl-2 family members in regulation of apoptosis	Pediatrics	Neurobiology
Liming Li, PhD limingli@northwestern.edu	Structural properties of prion proteins contributing to infectivity and inheritance	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Cell Biology, MBG
Jonathan Licht, MD j-licht@northwestern.edu	Transcription factors disrupted in human cancers	Medicine	Cancer, MBG
Jon Lomasney, MD j-lomasney@northwestern.edu	Molecular basis for protein-lipid interaction.	Pathology, Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Pharm/Tox, SBB
Richard Longnecker, PhD r-longnecker@northwestern.edu	Epstein-Barr virus transformation, latency and entry.	Microbiology-Immunology	Cancer, IMP, MBG
William Lowe, Jr., MD wlowe@northwestern.edu	Transcriptional regulation of insulinlike growth factor expression.	Medicine	Cell, MBG
Nick Lu, PhD nickzlu@northwestern.edu	Glucocorticoid receptor in asthma, inflammation and cancer	Medicine	Cancer, IMP. MBG
Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD f-mauvais-jarvis@northwestern.edu	Estrogen and androgen actions in diabetes and obesity	Medicine	Cell, Development, MBG
Thomas McGarry, MD, PhD t-mcgarry@northwestern.edu	Unstable regulatory proteins and nuclear reprogramming	Medicine	Cancer, Development, MBG
Richard Miller, PhD r-miller10@northwestern.edu	Calcium channels in nerve communication and neurodegenerative disease	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox
Stephen Miller, PhD s-d-miller@northwestern.edu	Immunoregulation of T-cell immune responses.	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP
Alex Minella, MD a-minella@northwestern.edu	Cell cycle control mechanisms in cancer	Medicine	Cancer
Jill Morris, PhD j-morris4@northwestern.edu	Molecular basis of schizophrenia	Pediatrics	Development, MBG, Neurobiology
William A. Muller, MD, PhD wamuller@northwestern.edu	Leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions in inflammation	Pathology	IMP, Cell, MBG
Hidayatullah G. Munshi, MD h-munshi@northwestern.edu	Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in metastasizing tumor cells	Medicine	Cancer
Toshio Narahashi, PhD tna957@northwestern.edu	Electrophysiology and pharmacology of nerve and synaptic membrane diseases.	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox
Puneet Opal, MD, PhD p-opal@northwestern.edu	Cellular basis of neurodegeneration	Neurology	Cell, MBG, Neuro, Cancer, Development
Toru Ouchi, PhD t-ouchi@northwestern.edu	Mechanism of Human Cancer Development - Molecular biology, Systems biology and Mice model system	Medicine	Cancer, Cell, MBG
Boris Pasche, MD, PhD b-pasche@northwestern.edu	Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-b) in Cancer Development and Progression	Medicine	Cancer, MBG
Jill C. Pelling, PhD j-pelling@northwestern.edu	Molecular mechanisms of chemoprevention; signal transduction pathways in UV response; hypoxia in carcinogenesis	Pathology	Cancer, Pharm/Tox
Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD l-platanias@northwestern.edu	Signal transduction in malignant cells	Medicine and Cancer Center	Cancer, Pharm/Tox
Carol Podlasek, PhD cap325@northwestern.edu	Sonic hedgehog (SHH) signaling in penile development and erectile dysfunction	Urology	MBG, Development
Richard Pope, MD rmp158@northwestern.edu	Cellular immune mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis	Medicine	IMP
Murali Prakriya, PhD m-prakriya@northwestern.edu	Calcium signaling mechanisms in health and disease	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Cell, Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox
Janardan Reddy, MD jkreddy@northwestern.edu	Chemical carcinogenesis and peroxisome proliferators.	Pathology	Cancer, Cell
Sarah Rice, PhD s-rice@northwestern.edu	Functions of molecular motor tails	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, MBG
Steven Rosen, MD s-rosen@northwestern.edu	Molecular mechanisms of resistance to hormonal therapies of cancer; identification of novel therapeutic targets.	Director, Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center	Cancer, Pharm/Tox
Vijay Sarthy, PhD vjsarthy@northwestern.edu	Retina: gene regulation, development and degeneration.	Physiology	Cell, MBG
Karla Fullner Satchell, PhD k-satchell@northwestern.edu	Vibrio cholerae RTX toxin and host-pathogen interactions.	Microbiology-Immunology	Cell, IMP
Richard Scarpulla, PhD rsc248@northwestern.edu	Gene regulation, transcription factors, intracellular signaling, mitochondrial disease	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, Developmental, MBG
Anthony Schaeffer, MD ajschaeffer@northwestern.edu	Urinary tract infections; antineoplastic effects of polyamine inhibitors.	Urology	Cancer
Robert P. Schleimer, PhD rpschleimer@northwestern.edu	Glucocorticoids in allergic diseases	Medicine	IMP, MBG
H. William Schnaper, MD schnaper@northwestern.edu	Cell-matrix interactions, collagen, signal transduction, TGF-b, kidney	Pediatrics	Cancer, Cell
Paul Schumacker, PhD p-schumacker@northwestern.edu	Oxygen sensing in development and tumor angiogenesis	Pediatrics, Medicine, CMB	Cancer, MBG
Hank Seifert, PhD h-seifert@northwestern.edu	Bacterial Pathogenesis, DNA recombination mechanisms, epithelial cell adherence	Microbiology-Immunology	Cancer, IMP, MBG
Brian Shea, PhD b-shea@northwestern.edu	Comparative anatomy and evolutionary morphology of primates.	Cell & Molecular Biology	Evolutionary
Teepu Siddique, MD t-siddique@northwestern.edu	Molecular basis of neurodegeneration and ALS	Neurology and Cell and Molecular Biology	Neurobiology, MBG
Eugene Silinsky, PhD e-silinsky@northwestern.edu	Synaptic transmission, adenosine, ATP, electrophysiology	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox, SBB
Hans-Georg Simon, PhD hgsimon@northwestern.edu	Development and regenerative repair of vertebrate limbs and heart	Pediatrics	Cell, Developmental, MBG
Greg Smith, PhD g-smith3@northwestern.edu	Herpesvirus transport in the nervous system	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP, Cell, Neurobiology
Marcelo Soares, PhD mbsoares@childrensmemorial.org	Genomic instability, aberrant transcription and splicing in cancer	Pediatrics	Cancer, MBG
Patricia Spear, PhD p-spear@northwestern.edu	Molecular mechanism of herpesvirus infection, viral entry.	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP, MBG
Paul Stein, PhD p-stein2@northwestern.edu	Role of Src family kinases in lymphoid and epithelial cells	Dermatology	Cancer, Cell, IMP, MBG
Paula Stern, PhD p-stern@northwestern.edu	Mechanisms of bone formation and resorption.	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Pharm/Tox
Geoffrey Swanson, PhD gtswanson@northwestern.edu	Glutamate receptors in neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Neuro, Pharm/Tox
Jacob Sznajder, MD j-sznajder@northwestern.edu	Regulation of Na,K-ATPase in the alveolar epithelium	Medicine	Cell, MBG
Jacek Topczewski, PhD j-topczewski@northwestern.edu	Morphogenic processes in zebrafish development	Pediatrics	Developmental, MBG
Warren G. Tourtellotte, MD, PhD warren@northwestern.edu	Immediate early gene function in the nervous system	Pathology	Cancer, Cell, MBG, Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox
Sergey M. Troyanovsky, PhD s-troyanovsky@northwestern.edu	Assembly of cell-cell adhesion structures	Dermatology	Cell, MBG
Margrit Urbanek, PhD m-urbanek@northwestern.edu	Susceptibility genes for complex diseases	Medicine	MBG
Linda Van Eldik, PhD vaneldik@northwestern.edu	Brain inflammation, molecular glial biology, and neurodegenerative disorders.	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cancer, Cell, Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox, SBB
John Varga, MD j-varga@northwestern.edu	TGF-beta and the Pathogenesis of Fibrosis	Medicine	Cell, MBG
Robert Vassar, PhD r-vassar@northwestern.edu	Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease	Cell & Molecular Biology	Cell, Neurobiology
Tom Volpe, PhD t-volpe2@northwestern.edu	Heterochromatin formation in higher eukaryotes	CMB	Cell, MBG
Olga Volpert, PhD olgavolp@northwestern.edu	Mechanisms of angiogenesis inhibitors	Urology	Cancer, MBG
Mark Wainwright, MD, PhD m-wainwright@northwestern.edu	Mechanisms of acute brain injury	Pediatrics	Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox
David Walterhouse, MD d-walterhouse@northwestern.edu	Function and regulation of the oncogene GLI	Pediatrics	Cancer, MBG
D. Martin Watterson, PhD m-watterson@northwestern.edu	Synthetic chemistry, biochemistry, and structure biology in the areas of neurosciences, inflammation and cancer	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Cancer, Cell, Neurobiology, Pharm/Tox, SBB
Susan Winandy, Ph.D. s-winandy@northwestern.edu	Transcriptional Regulation of T-cell Development	Microbiology-Immunology	IMP, Cancer, Developmental
Gayle Woloschak, PhD g-woloschak@northwestern.edu	DNA-TiO2 nanoparticles; Radiosensitivity/motor neuron disease	Radiology and CMB	MBG
Jane Wu, MD, PhD jane-wu@northwestern.edu	Splicing defects in neurodegenerative disorders; molecular mechanisms regulating cell migration	Neurology	Cell, Neuro, MBG
Eugene Xu, PhD e-xu@northwestern.edu	Regulators of germ cell development in Drosophila and mice	Obstetrics and Gynecology	Cell, Development, MBG
Ming Zhang, PhD m-zhang@northwestern.edu	Molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis and cancer metastasis.	Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry	Cancer, Cell, MBG

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