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  • Ahmed, Zubair M., PhD, Professor
    410-706-3799
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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
  • Ananyeva, Natalya M., PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
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  • Ballin, Jeff D., PhD, Research Associate
    (410) 706-8903
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  • Baskakov, Ilia V., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-4562
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    Keywords: neurodegenerative diseases, prion diseases, neuroinflammation, reactive astrocytes, reactive microglia, Alzheimer's disease
  • Brong, Annie , BA, Research Fellow
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  • Chang, Yen-Pei Christy , PhD, MS, Professor
    (410) 706-6737 (office)
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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.
  • Cho, Suhan , PhD, MS, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Clark, Adam , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Corti, Paola , PhD, Assistant Professor
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    Keywords: globins, nitric oxide, nitrite, zebrafish, embryonic development, cardiac regeneration
  • Davis, Jeremy L., MD, Professor
    410-328-2663
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    Keywords: cancer research, stomach cancer, gastric cancer, lobular breast cancer, CDH1 gene mutations
  • Dey, Anwesha , PhD, Adjunct Professor
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  • Drohat, Alexander C., PhD, Professor
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    Keywords: DNA Repair, Epigenetics and DNA methylation, Enzymology, NMR, Structural Biology, SUMO modification
  • Du, Shaojun , PhD, Professor
    (410) 234-8854
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    Keywords: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of gene expression, muscle, bone and adipocyte cell differentiation, molecular chaperones and protein stability, zebrafish models, gene transfer and genome editing.
  • Emmanuvel, Arputharaj , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Fan, Wenjun , PhD, Assistant Professor
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    Keywords: rRNA synthesis, RNA splicing, Ribosomal heterogeneity, Translational fitness, Cancer cell plasticity, Functional genomics, Multi-omics, RNA Polymerase I, Ribosome biogenesis, CRISPR screening, Targeted therapy resistance, Precision medicine, Biomarker discovery
  • Fang, Shengyun , PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-2220
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    Keywords: Proteostasis, UBA1 activity enhancers, RNF5 inhibitor and degrader, drug discovery, ubiquitination, ERAD, unfolded protein response, VEXAS syndrome, spinal muscular atrophy, α-1-antitrypsin deficiency-associated liver disease, obesity-related cancer, aging, and age-related diseases.
  • Fay, Jonathan F., PhD, Assistant Professor
    4107064353
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    Keywords: Membrane protein, structure, structural biology, cryo-EM, GPCR
  • Fiskum, Gary M., PhD, Professor Emeritus
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    Keywords: pathophysiology of both ischemic and traumatic brain injury, relationships between injury to the brain and multiple organ failure
  • Franklin, Renty B., PhD, Professor
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  • Godoy Ruiz, Raquel , PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
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  • Goelet, Philip , PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
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  • Hamza, Iqbal , PhD, Professor
    410-706-4533
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    Keywords: Anemia; Heme; Iron; Porphyria; Leishmania; Parasites
  • Hasan, S. Saif , PhD, Associate Professor
    240-314-6396
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    Keywords: Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Infectious Viruses, Inter-Organelle Trafficking, Membrane Proteins, Protein Secretion, Structural Biology, Vesicular Trafficking, Viral Structures, X-Ray Crystallography
  • Hasday, Jeffrey D., MD, Clinical Professor
    (410) 328-8141
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    Keywords: ARDS, ILD, IPF, interstitial lung disease, asthma, heat shock protein, p38 MAP kinase, endothelial, epithelial, cytokine, thermoregulation
  • Hegde, Kavita R., MBBS, PhD, Adjunct Professor
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  • Hornyak, Thomas J., MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor
    667-214-1199
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    Keywords: Melanocyte stem cell differentiation and fate determination as well as melanoma epigenetics
  • Hunter, Daniel , MS, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Hurt, Elaine M., PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
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  • Hussain, Arif , MD, Professor
    (410) 328-7225
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    Keywords: Prostate Cancer, Genitourinary Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Testicular Cancer
  • Jeon, Hee-Young , DSc, Research Associate
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  • Jo, Stephanie Y., MD, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor
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    Keywords: musculoskeletal radiology, osteoarthritis, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, develop prediction model for arthroplasty outcome based on MRI, develop chondrocyte cell line model for drug screening
  • Kaper, James B., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-7114
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    Keywords: Microbiology, Immunology, Bacterial Vaccines, Enteric Pathogenesis, Bacterial Genetics, Intestinal Colonization
  • Karbowski, Mariusz , PhD, Associate Professor
    410-706-4018
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    Keywords: mitochondrial membrane dynamics, impact of ubiquitin and proteasome-dependent control of mitochondria
  • Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Aikaterini , PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-5788
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    Keywords: cytoskeleton, signaling, skeletal and cardiac muscle (patho)physiology, breast cancer
  • Kundan, Sivashanmugan , PhD, Research Associate
    410-706-8408
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    Keywords: Single-molecule spectroscopy; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Nanoendoscopy; Plasmonic; SERS
  • Lakowicz, Joseph R., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-8409
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    Keywords: Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Radiative Decay Engineering, Plasmon-controlled fluorescence
  • Lattman, Eaton E., PhD, Adjunct Professor
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  • Lin, Jiayuh , PhD, Professor
    410-706-7469
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    Keywords: IL-6, GP130, STAT3, PARP, CDK4/6
  • Lindberg, Iris , PhD, Professor
    410-706-4778
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    Keywords: neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, protein chaperones, proteostais, ALS
  • Medved, Leonid , ScD, PhD, Professor
    410-706-8065
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    Keywords: Blood Coagulation, Fibrinolysis, Plasma Proteins Structure and Interaction, Fibrinogen, Fibrin, Fibrin(ogen) Receptors, Fibrin-Dependent Inflammation.
  • Michel, Sarah L.J., PhD, Professor
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  • Monteiro, Mervyn J., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-8132
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    Keywords: Neurodegenerative diseases, ALS, FTD, Alzheimer's disease, protein misfolding, ubiquilin, proteasome, autophagy
  • Neuwald, Andrew F., PhD, Professor Emeritus
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    Keywords: Protein sequence and structural analysis, Bayesian statistics, Computational Biology
  • Padia, Janak , PhD, Associate Professor
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  • Pidugu, Lakshmi Swarna Mukhi , PhD, Research Associate
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  • Polster, Brian M., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-3418
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    Keywords: mitochondria, mitochondrial fission, bioenergetics, oxygen, respiration, Seahorse, reactive oxygen species, superoxide, apoptosis, cytochrome c, AIF, Bax, Bcl-2, Drp1, calpain, neurons, glutamate excitotoxicity, nitric oxide, astrocytes, microglia, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, traumatic brain injury, neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, idebenone, mdivi-1
  • Pomerantz, Seymour , PhD, Professor Emeritus
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  • Pozharskiy, Edvin , PhD, Associate Professor
    240-314-6870
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    Keywords: Protein crystallography, cryoelectron microscopy, structure based drug design, biomolecular recognition
  • Qi, Jianfei , PhD, Associate Professor
    410-706-2192
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    Keywords: transcriptional gene regulation, epigenetics, signaling transduction, histone demethylase, ubiquitin ligase, androgen receptor, c-Myc, prostate cancer, castration-resistant prostate cancer, DNA damage response
  • Qian, Feng , Dr. rer. nat., Professor
    410-706-5804
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    Keywords: Polycystic kidney disease, polycystin, cyst formation, ciliary trafficking, cis-autoproteolysis, G-protein coupled protein proteolysis site (GPS)
  • Ramani, Sivasubramanian , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
    (667) 312-0372
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  • Ray, Krishanu , PhD, Associate Professor
    (410) 706-6175
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    Keywords: Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Super-resolution Imaging, Two-photon Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging, HIV Envelope, Fc gamma receptor, SARS-CoV-2, DNA Packaging Motor, Plasmonics
  • Riazuddin, Saima , PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor
    410-706-3798
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    Keywords: Hearing loss, vestibular dysfunction, brain disorders, intellectual disability, molecular genetics, cell biology.
  • Samsuzzaman, Samsuzzaman , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Schneider, Martin F., PhD, Professor Emeritus
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  • Shakya, Anil , PhD, Post Doc Fellow
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  • Shen, Jana , PhD, Professor
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  • Shi, Changyou , PhD, Research Associate
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  • Shriver, Marey R., PhD, Assistant Professor
    410-706-5434
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    Keywords: Professional Development, Career Development, Grant Writing, Grant Proposals, Summary Statements, Research Question Development, Early Project Development, Scientific Writing, Individual Consultations
  • Summers, Michael F., PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
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  • Thompson, Richard B., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-7142
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    Keywords: fluorescence, biosensor, fluorescence lifetime, fluorescence anisotropy, fluorescence polarization, FRET, zinc, copper, hydroxyapatite, retina, sub-RPE deposits, drusen, fiber optics, sensors, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, age-related macular degeneration
  • Tiwary, Pratyush , PhD, Professor
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  • Toth, Eric A., PhD, Assistant Professor
    240-314-6516
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    Keywords: therapeutic development, X-ray crystallography, neurodegeneration, DNA repair
  • Varma, Shambhu D., PhD, MS, Professor Emeritus
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  • Varney, Kristen M., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-2110
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    Keywords: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Drug design, Structural Biology
  • Ward, Christopher W., PhD, Professor
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  • Weber, David J., PhD, Professor
    (410) 706-4354
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    Keywords: Calcium-signaling, calcium-binding proteins, tumor suppression, cancer biology, structural biology, bacterial and other toxins, infectious disease
  • Wilson, Gerald M., PhD, Professor
    410-706-8904
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    Keywords: Gene expression, RNA turnover, RNA-binding proteins, fluorescence spectroscopy, tumor progression, inflammatory mediators, lipoprotein receptors, high throughput drug screening, assay development
  • Wu, Mei-Yi , PhD, Assistant Professor
    410-706-3169
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    Keywords: Epigenetics, Chromatin remodeling protein, Breast cancer, Prostate Cancer, Kidney development, Neurodegeneration
  • Yakovlev, Sergiy , PhD, Assistant Professor
    410-706-8066
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    Keywords: Fibrinogen, Fibrin, VLDL receptor, Endothelial cells, Leukocyte transmigration, Inflammation
  • Yang, Peixin , PhD, Professor
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    Keywords: Diabetic embryopathy, pregestational diabetes, neural tube defects, congenital heart defects, embryonic vasculopathy, exosome, ferroptosis, obesity, placenta, Alzheimer's disease, SARS-CoV-2 infection, DNA/RNA methylation
  • Yu, Liqing Justin , MD, PhD, Professor
    410-706-5829
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    Keywords: lipid metabolism and transport, nafld, cardiovascular disease
  • Zalzman, Michal , PhD, Assistant Professor
    410-706-7879
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    Keywords: Stem cells, Embryonic stem cells, ESCs, Induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSCs, Multipotent stem cells, MSCs, Telomere, Cancer stem cells, CSCs, Parkinson's disease, Stroke, Conductive hearing loss, Bone reconstruction, 3D Printing, DeepFeeze-3D printing, Tissue-reconstruction, Regenerative-medicine, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Bioengineering, Tissue engineering