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Julio C. Barredo, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Toppel Family Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Pediatric Oncology, Bone arrow and stem cell transplantation, Childhood brain and spinal tumors, Pediatric sickle cell disease.
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305-585-5635 (ph)
305-325-8387 (fax)
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Antoni Barrientos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
We are interested in the basic processes underlying the biogenesis of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) and how they bear on human neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders.
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(305) 243-8683 (ph)
Rosenstiel Medical Science Building - 2067
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Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Neuroproteomics, posttranslational modification of deimination, local protein synthesis in neuronal dendrites
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(305) 482-4103 (ph)
McKnight Vision Research Center - 7th Floor
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Antonio Bianco, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine
Thyroid hormone action starts and ends by deiodination
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305-243-5631 (ph)
305-243-7268 (fax)
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Peter Buchwald, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology & Director, Drug Discovery
"Computer-aided drug design, small molecule modulators of the costimulatory protein-protein interaction, immunomodulation for islet transplantation"
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305-243-9657 (ph)
Diabetes Research Institute #3014
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Nirupa Chaudhari, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
We study mechanisms of transduction and cellular communication in sensory and other cells. We develop transgenic mouse models and fluorescent reporters to visualize cell function in real time. We also analyze patterns of gene expression in complex tissues to understand the roles and differentiation of diverse cell types.
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305-243-3427 (ph)
305-243-5931 (fax)
Rosenstiel Medical Science Building - 4062
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Zhibin Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Our lab is oriented to discovery-based research on mechanisms of immune tolerance in autoimmune diseases and transplantations, as well as tumor-induced immune suppression. With advanced molecular biology tools, we strive to bridge genomic and genetic advances to immunobiology and immunotherapies in autoimmunity, transplantation and antitumor Immunity. Our current focus is on the quantitative interactions among various immune regulatory elements including CTLA4, Treg cells, and IDO.
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305-243-8348 (ph)
305-243-4623 (fax)
Room 3035 (office), 3039A (lab) Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building
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Gregory E. Conner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine; and Director of Research, Div. of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine
"Research projects are focused on basic epithelial cell biology especially as it applies to the respiratory tract. Projects include studies on epithelial host defense responses, secretion, ciliary beating and reactive oxygen species metabolism."
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305-243-6926 (ph)
Rosenstiel Medical Science Building - 7061B
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Ram H. Datar, M. Phil, Ph. D.
Co-Director, Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute of University of Miami (Bio NIUM), Associate Prof., Pathology
Molecular diagnosis and Prognosis of Cancer
Nanosensors and microfabricated devices for clinical applications
Gene expression profiling
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305-243-6121/305-243 (ph)
305-243-6170 (fax)
Biomedical Research Building 714
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Sylvia Daunert, PhD, Pharm D
Professor and Lucille P. Markey Chair
Biomolecules and bionanotechnology
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305-243-4005 (ph)
305-243-3955 (fax)
R. Bunn Gautier Building, Room 239DA (Locator R-629)
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Sapna Deo, PhD
Associate Professor and Biochemistry & Molecular Bilogy Graduate Program Director
Biomolecules and bionanotechnology
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305-243-4421 (ph)
305-243-3955 (fax)
Room 239 DB, R. Bunn Gautier Building
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Dorraya El-Ashry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Mechanisms underlying the etiology of ER-negative vs ER-positive breast cancer and studies aimed at re-expressing ER in ER-negative tumors leading to clinical trials.
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(305) 243-4721 (ph)
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Mohammad Faghihi, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience Program Affiliated Faculty Member
Dr. Faghihi's interests include non-protein-coding RNAs and their involvement in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Fragile X Syndrome.
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305-243-7953 (ph)
Biomedical Research Building
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Christian Faul, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine/Nephrology and Cell Biology
The Synaptopodin family of actin binding proteins and its role in signal transduction in renal podocytes and cardiac myocytes
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(305)243-3206 (ph)
(305)243-3209 (fax)
Batchelor Bldg 6th Fl Room #628
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Alessia Fornoni, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research focuses on characterizing the molecular mechanism responsible for diabetic complications, mainly kidney disease.
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305-243-3583 (ph)
305-243-4404 (fax)
DRI, 1450 NW 10th Ave, Room 5010
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John R. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, Hussman Institute for Human Genomics.
Dr. Gilbert's research focuses on applications of genome technology to human genetics and the molecular genetics of autism, Alzheimer disease, Essential Tremor, and infectious disease such as tuberculosis. As a molecular biologist, his expertise is in gene analysis and characterization, positional cloning, mutation analysis, and animal models of human disorders.
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305-243-6177 (ph)
305-243-2396 (fax)
Room 510, Biomedical Research Building
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Guy A. Howard, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Cell and molecular biology of bone; cell and molecular biology of aging; stem cells and reparative medicine
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Luca Inverardi, M.D.
Research Professor of Medicine, Deputy Director of Translational Research at the Diabetes Research Institute
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305-243-5347 (ph)
305-243-4404 (fax)
Room 5006, Diabetes Research Institute
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Robert W. Keane, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
"My research focuses on the initiation of inflammation, autophagy and apoptosis in the CNS after traumatic brain and spinal cord injury."
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305-243-5726 (ph)
Rosenstiel Medical Science Building Room - 5058
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Richard Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Cell Biology
My lab studies molecular pathways important for retinal ganglion cell death and survival and the molecular pathophysiology of ocular disease
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(305) 547-3686 (ph)
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
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Jie Li, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Our laboratory uses advanced cell and molecular biology techniques and animal models to study skin related problems. We are specially interested in the function and mechanicsms involved in the epithelial extracellular matrix.
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(305)243-3365 (ph)
(305)243-6191 (fax)
RMSB Rm 2049A
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Wei Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Microbiology & Immunology, and Cell Biology
My research interests focus on two areas of eye diseases: autoimmune uveitis and retinal degeneration. For autoimmune uveitis, we investigate the mechanism of autoimmune uveitis by identifying and characterizing autoantigens directly from patients with non-invasive molecular biology approaches. For retinal degeneration, we investigate the role of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell phagocytosis in retinal degeneration.
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305-326-6445 (ph)
McKnight Vision Research Center - 619
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Marc Lippman, M.D.
Kathleen and Stanley Glaser Professor of Medicine
molecular mechanisms of control of breast cancer growth and malignant behavior
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(305) 243-9120 (ph)
(305) 243-9124 (fax)
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Balakrishna Lokeshwar, Ph.D.
Professor/Co-Director Urology Research
"Functions of chemokines and pro-inflammatory factors in tumor progression, hormone-independence and metastasis. Development of natrually occuring compounds in herbs and spices for chemoprevention and therapy."
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(305) 243-1012 (ph)
Gautier Medical Research Building, 1011 NW 15th Street
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Izidore Lossos, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Director Lymphoma Program
We are studying pathogenesis of lymphoma and biological processes in normal B cells
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305-243-6787 (ph)
305-243-4785 (fax)
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, D8-4
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Jaime Merchan, M.D., MMSc
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
"My research interests include tumor angiogenesis, development of novel vascular targeted therapies for cancer, and identification of tumor and blood angiogenesis biomarkers that may serve as predictive or monitoring tools for cancer patients during treatment"
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305-243-4909 (ph)
305-243-9161 (fax)
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Enrique A. Mesri, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
"Molecular, cellular and genetic mechanisms of viral carcinogenesis of Kaposi sarcoma. Activation of tumor angiogenesis and genetic instability by the Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus/ KSHV."
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305-243-5659 (ph)
305-243-8309 (fax)
Room 109B (office), 134 (lab) Papanicolaou Cancer Research Building
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Carlos T. Moraes, Ph.D.
Professor, Neurology and Cell Biology
Human Genetics; Molecular pathogenesis of disease-related mitochondrial DNA mutations
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(305)243-5858 (ph)
(305)243-3914 (fax)
230 Two Story Lab
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Richard S. Myers, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The mechanics of inheritance, DNA damage repair and its consequences, genome engineering using viral recombinases. |
(305) 243-2056 (ph)
(305) 243-3065 (fax)
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Michael Norenberg, M.D.
Professor, Pathology
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(305) 585-7049 (ph)
305-585-5311 (fax)
Holtz Center - JMH East Tower - 2412
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Savita Pahwa, M.D.
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Director of CFAR
Our group is interested in the immunopathogenesis of HIV infection for the understanding of the nature and mechanisms of immune dysfunction in HIV infected pediatric and adult patients. We hope that our studies will help in developing strategies for immune reconstitution, and for aborting disease progression in HIV infected subjects.
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305-243-7732 (ph)
305-243-7211 (fax)
Room 712 (office), 708 (lab) Batchelor Children's Research Institute
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Justin M. Percival, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
We study the function of nitric oxide-cGMP signaling pathways in normal and diseased skeletal and cardiac muscle. We use our findings to develop pharmacological treatments for muscle dysfunction in human disease. |
305-243-7303 (ph)
305-243-4555 (fax)
RMSB 6174
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Jochen Reiser, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology; Chief, Div of Nephrology and Hypertension; Director, Peggy and Harold Katz Family Miami Drug Discovery Center
Cell Biology of podocytes and glomerular disease
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305-585-1111 (ph)
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Joseph D. Rosenblatt, M.D.
William Harrington Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology
"Research into human gene therapy, anti-angiogenic and immune therapy applications for cancer including the design of novel antibody fusion proteins"
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305-243-4860 (ph)
305-243-9161 (fax)
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Richard L. Rotundo, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology, Physiology and Biophysics, and Member, Neurosciences Program
Membrane protein biogensis and localization; signal transduction; gene expression and regulation; nerves and muscle
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(305)243-6940 (ph)
(305)545-7166 (fax)
Rosenstiel Medical Science Building - 4168
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Pedro Salas, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Cell Biology
Polarization in epithelial cells; Role of the cytoskeleton and signaling pathways
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305-243-6977 (ph)
Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building 4090
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Matthias A Salathe, M.D.
Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care, and Professor of Medicine and Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
"Research focuses on innate host defenses of the airways including mucociliary clearance, mucus secretion, ciliary beating and lactoperoxidase system and recovery from insults."
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305-585-7340 (ph)
305-243-6992 (fax)
Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building, 7063A
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Paul Schiller, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Medicine
"Marrow-isolated adult mutilineage inducible (MIAMI) stem cells: molecular mechanisms of self-renewal, proliferation and differentiation; and their use in regenerative medicine."
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Stephan C. Schurer, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute Florida
Computer-Aided Drug Design, semantic integration, cheminformatics, computational poly-pharmacology
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305-243-4842 (ph)
305-243-4555 (fax)
CRB 944
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Jose P. Silva, MD, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Silva is interested in studying the central and peripheral mechanisms that control energy and glucose balance, the role of non-protein coding RNAs in metabolic gene regulation and strategies to target non-protein coding RNAs as drug therapies for obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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305-243-1209 (ph)
305-243-2396 (fax)
Room 433, Biomedical Research Building
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Rakesh Singal, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine/Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Singal’s research focuses on the epigenetic mechanisms that inactivate certain tumor-suppressor genes in prostate cancer and designing clinical trials based on lab research.
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305-243-4909 (ph)
305-243-4905 (fax)
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Joyce M. Slingerland, MD, PhD
Director, Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute, UMSylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Professor of Medicine
Breast cancer, molecular mechanisms, molecular genetics, epidemiology, cell cycle, and estrogen receptors
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305-243-4909 (ph)
305-243-4975 (fax)
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Michal Toborek, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Studies on the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB)
and how different pathological conditions can lead to the
disruption and/or dysfunction of the BBB. |
305-243-0230 (ph)
305-243-3955 (fax)
Room 516, R. Bunn Gautier Building (Locator R-629)
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Kathryn W. Tosney, Ph.D.
Chair, Biology
The Tosney lab studies axon guidance and growth cone motility.
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(305) 284-4134 (ph)
Cox Science Center - 215
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Claes R. Wahlestedt, M.D, Ph.D.
Director, Genomic Interdisciplinary Therapeutic Innovation Center (G-ITIC)
Dr. Wahlestedt's research interests focus on novel drug therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders and epigenetics.
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305-243-7694 (ph)
305-243-2396 (fax)
Room 407, Biomedical Research Building
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Keith Webster, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology; Director of the Vascular Biology Institute; Walter G. Ross Chair of Vascular Biology
Myocardial ischemia, Apoptosis, Gene and Stem Cell Therapy
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305-243-6779 (ph)
305-243-6082 (fax)
Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building 6038
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Rong Wen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Opthamology
Retinal cell biology; photoreceptor degeneration; retinal vascular disorders
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(305) 482-4874 (ph)
McKnight Vision Research Center - 506
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