Molecular Neuroscience
Cardiovascular
Obesity, Metabolic Disease and Inflammatory Disease
Cancer
Genomics

Molecular Neuroscience

• George Argyropoulos - regulation of gene expression
• David Carey - extracellular matrix (ECM) modulation of peripheral nerve development
• Tooraj Mirshahi - regulation of potassium channels; regulation of ion channels by G protein signaling
• Janet Robishaw - cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease
• Nikolaos Tapinos - peripheral nerve development and injury response

Cardiovascular

• Gerda Breitwieser - calcium sensing receptor in cardiovascular disease
• David Carey - pathophysiology of abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Helen Kuivaniemi - genetics and genomics of abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Tooraj Mirshahi - animal models; heart failure; role of ion channels in cardiac function and disease
• Anne Moon - pathobiology of cardiac development; arrhythmia syndromes
• Janet Robishaw - animal models; heart failure; congenital heart problems; pathological angiogenesis
• Gerard Tromp - genetics of abdominal aortic aneurysm

Obesity, Metabolic Disease and Inflammatory Disease

• George Argyropoulos - obesity and diabetes; human and mouse models; regulation of appetite
• Catherine Berlot - G-protein modulation of T cell signaling 
• Gerda Breitwieser - intestinal stem cells; peripheral regulation of obesity
• David Carey - extracellular matrix signaling in obesity
• Tooraj Mirshahi - leptin-meanocortin pathway; mechanism of weight loss, neuroendocrine control of metabolism, remission of T2D
• Anne Moon - role of Tbx3 in metabolism
• Janet Robishaw - animal models; resistance to hight fat diet induced obesity; adipose derived stem cells

Cancer

• Radhika Gogoi - endometrial cancer
• Anne Moon  - role of Tbx3 in cancer and cell senescence
• Marius Sudol -
• Nikolaos Tapinos - cell migration in brain tumor metastasis
• WannianYang - Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling and cancer 

Genomics

• George Argyropoulos - Genomics of obesity and diabetes
• Gerda Breitwieser - transcriptomics of vascular disease and obesity
• David Carey - incorporating genomic information into clinical practice; identification of genetic risk factors for AAA
• Helen Kuivaniemi - genomics of abdominal aortic aneurysms
• Tooraj Mirshahi - human variants associated with disease
• Anne Moon - identifying candidate genes for human cardiac malformations; applied pharmacogenomics
• Janet Robishaw - association of human genetic variants with clinical phenotypes
• Gerard Tromp - Bioinformatics and computational biology; electronic phenotyping using EMR data; genome-wide association; next-generation sequence analysis
• Wannian Yang - Genomic alterations and tumor genesis and progression