Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Secondary Faculty

• Ahmed, Zubair M., PhD, Professor
  410-706-3799
  zmahmed@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Genetic disorders of Ear and Eye, hearing loss, Usher syndrome, Retinitis pigmentosa, hearing restoration, gene therapy, Otitis media genetics, Inner ear development, Mechanotransduction, Calcium role in hearing and vision, Noise induced hearing loss, Genome editing
• Bashirelahi, Nasir , PhD, PharmD, Professor
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• Baskakov, Ilia V., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-4562
  baskakov@umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: prions, prion diseases, neurodegenerative diseaes
• Blitzer, Miriam G., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-4065
  mblitzer@peds.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Biochemical and metabolic genetic disorders; medical genetics and genomics education and training
• Chang, Yen-Pei Christy , PhD, Associate Professor
  (410) 706-6737 (office)
  cchang@medicine.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Molecular and genetic bases of complex disorders such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, regulatory elements (non-protein coding) in the human genome, gene regulation, bioinformatics tools for function prediction, faculty development, and graduate school education.
• Enwonwu, Cyril O., ScD, PhD, Professor
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• Fang, Shengyun , PhD, Associate Professor
  (410) 706-2220
  sfang@som.umaryland.edu
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• Fiskum, Gary M., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-4711
  gfiskum@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Adult and pediatric traumatic and ischemic brain injury; Mitochondrial bioenergetics; Cerebral energy metabolism; Oxidative stress; Apoptosis; Neuroprotection
• Franklin, Renty B., PhD, Professor
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• Hasday, Jeffrey D., MD, Professor
  (410) 328-8141
  JHASDAY@umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: ARDS, ILD, IPF, interstitial lung disease, asthma, heat shock protein, p38 MAP kinase, endothelial, epithelial, cytokine, thermoregulation
• Hornyak, Thomas J., MD, PhD, Associate Professor
  667-214-1199
  thornyak@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Melanocyte stem cell differentiation and fate determination as well as melanoma epigenetics
• Hussain, Arif , MD, Professor
  (410) 328-7225
  ahussain@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Prostate Cancer, Genitourinary Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Testicular Cancer
• Kaper, James B., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-7114
  jkaper@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Microbiology, Immunology, Bacterial Vaccines, Enteric Pathogenesis, Bacterial Genetics, Intestinal Colonization
• Lindberg, Iris , PhD, Professor
  410-706-4778
  ilindberg@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Peptide hormones, obesity, proprotein convertases, diabetes, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, protein chaperones
• Michel, Sarah L.J., PhD, Professor
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• Monteiro, Mervyn J., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-8132
  monteiro@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Protein misfolding, Neurodegenerative diseases, ALS, Alzheimer's, ubiquilin, proteasome, autophagy
• Olson, John A., MD, PhD, Professor
  410-328-6187
  jolson@smail.umaryland.edu
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• Padia, Janak , PhD, Associate Professor
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• Passaniti, Antonino , PhD, Professor
  410-328-5470
  tpassaniti@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Breast cancer, angiogenesis, transcriptional regulation, cell signaling
• Polster, Brian M., PhD, Associate Professor
  (410) 706-3418
  bpolster@som.umaryland.edu
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• Qian, Feng , Dr. rer. nat., Professor
  410-706-5804
  fqian@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Polycystic kidney disease, polycystin, cyst formation, ciliary trafficking, cis-autoproteolysis, G-protein coupled protein proteolysis site (GPS)
• Riazuddin, Saima , PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor
  410-706-3798
  sriazuddin@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: Hearing loss, vestibular dysfunction, brain disorders, intellectual disability, molecular genetics, cell biology.
• Shen, Jana , PhD, Professor
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• Toth, Eric A., PhD, Assistant Professor
  240-314-6516
  etoth@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: therapeutic development, X-ray crystallography, neurodegeneration, DNA repair
• Varma, Shambhu D., PhD, MS, Professor Emeritus
  svarma2384@aol.com
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• Ward, Christopher W., PhD, Professor
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• Yang, Peixin , PhD, Professor
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  Keywords: Diabetic embryopathy, pregestational diabetes, neural tube defects, congenital heart defects, embryonic vasculopathy, stem cell therapy, autism
• Yu, Liqing Justin , MD, PhD, Professor
  410-706-5829
  lyu@som.umaryland.edu
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  Keywords: lipid metabolism and transport, nafld, cardiovascular disease