Name | Primary/Secondary Appointments | Research Interests | Role |
Jacob I. Sznajder | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Lung edema clearance and regulation of the Na,K-ATPase in the lungs. | Program Director |
Borisy, GG | Cell & Molecular Biology | Understanding the structure, dynamics and molecular biology of the cytoskeleton and how this is related to disease. | Mentor |
Budinger, GRS | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Role of alveolar epithelial apoptosis in the development of lung injury. | Co-Director |
Ciechanover, AJ | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Role of the ubiquitin system in the SMAC/DIABLO mediated inhibition of IAP molecules during apoptosis, HIF-1 a stabilization, p53 and MyoD activation. | Mentor |
Chandel, NS | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Hypoxia and the mechanisms that regulate cell death. | Mentor |
Dean, DA | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology | Mechanisms that underlie cell type specific expression of non-virally delivered transgenes. | Mentor |
Dematte D’Amico, JE | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | ARDS and Sepsis in the Medical Intensive Care Unit | Mentor |
Glucksberg, MR | Biomedical Engineering | Blood pressure and flow in the pulmonary and retinal circulation as it relates to robot assisted microsurgery, pulmonary mechanics and lung liquid transfer. | Mentor |
Goldman, RD | Cell & Molecular Biology, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Structure and function of cytoskeletal and nucleoskeletal intermediate filament networks. | Mentor |
Gottardi, C | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Cadherins and catenins in cell-cell adhesion and signaling. | Mentor |
Hicke, LA | Biochemical, Molecular Cell Biology | Ubiquitin mediated protein degradation. | Mentor |
Kamp, DW | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Role of particulate air pollution and asbestos-induced alveolar epithelial cell mitochondrial dysfunction DNA damage and apoptosis. | Mentor |
Jain, M | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Adult Cystic Fibrosis. | Mentor |
Jones, JCR | Cell & Molecular Biology, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Structure and assembly of hemidesmosomes. | Co-Director |
Morimoto, RI | Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology | Molecular mechanisms that regulate the transcription and activation of a family of heat shock factors in response to stress. | Mentor |
Ridge, KM | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Elucidating the pathways driving alveolar fluid reabsorption in the injured lung. | Mentor |
Smith, LJ | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Translational asthma research | Mentor |
Sporn, PHS | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Regulation of leukotriene, and mechanical signal transduction. | Co-Director |
Schleimer, RP | Allergy-Immunology | Mechanisms of action of glucocorticoids in allergic disease. | Mentor |
Schumacker, PT | Pediatrics | | Mentor |