The following list of IBS PhD training faculty is subject to change
| Last | First | Title | Research Interests | Inst. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethea | John | PhD | Neuroimmune mechanisms of CNS injury and repair. Specifically, the role of sex-differences in neuroimmune signaling in spinal cord injury, chronic pain and autoimmunity and the translation of discovery into clinical application. | GW |
| Bollard | Catherine | MD | Development of novel cell therapeutics for cancer and infection | CNHS |
| Bosque-Pardos | Alberto | PhD, MBA | HIV cure research, strategies to enhance immune effector functions and eradicate latent HIV infection | GW |
| Bukrinsky | Michael | MD, PhD | Molecular pathogenesis of HIV-associated metabolic diseases | GW |
| Chiappinelli | Katherine | PhD | Epigenetic regulation of immune signaling in cancer, transposable elements, ovarian cancer immunotherapy | GW |
| Chung | Inhee | PhD | Biophysical and biomechanical mechanisms of cancer metastasis and cancer dormancy, including single-molecule tracking and super-resolution microscopy | GW |
| Colonnese | Matthew | PhD | Cellular and circuit mechanisms essential for plasticity in the developing brain | GW |
| Corbin | Joshua | PhD | Genetic and cellular basis for development of mammalian amygdala [See video] | CNHS |
| Cruz | Russell | MD, PhD | Development of immune based therapies for cancer and opportunistic infections for patients with various degrees of immune deficiency | GW |
| Fabbri | Muller | MD, PhD | Non-coding RNAs in exosomes and other extracellular vesicles and their role in cancer biology and therapy | CNHS |
| Fernandes | Rohan | PhD | Immunoengineering approaches to treat cancer and HIV; nanoimmunotherapies and cell-based immunotherapies | GW |
| Gazzinelli Guimaraes | Pedro | PhD | Implications of the plasticity and specificity of circulating and tissue effector Th2 cells in regulating the immune response to helminth parasites and the pathogenesis of allergic diseases | GW |
| Hashimoto-Torii | Kazue | PhD | Environmental factors/pharmacological agents in fetal brain malformations related to mental illnesses in adulthood | CNHS |
| Haydar | Dalia | PhD | Investigating novel designs, additional genetic modifications, or combination therapies that will improve CAR T cells antitumor effects in pediatric brain tumors | CNH |
| Hsiao | Katie Kuangofu | PhD | Genomic-scale and circuit-level analysis of developmental disorders. In vivo neural activity recordings from synaptic inputs and output of targeted celltypes to decode mechanisms of learning and plasticity [lab website] | CNH |
| Hsieh | Michael | MD, PhD | Anti-pathogenic inflammation induced by bacteria such as uropathogenic E. coli, and chronic inflammation mediated carcinogenesis studied using models of nitrosamine and Schistosoma haematobium exposure | CNHS |
| Hu | Yanfen | PhD | BRCA1 in breast and ovarian cancers, including the mechanism of BRCA1 as a tumor suppressor, BRCA1-associated tumor sex- and tissue-specificity, and BRCA1-associated cancer treatment and therapeutic resistance | GW |
| Ishibashi | Nobuyuki | MD | Neurodevelopment and injury in congenital heart disease | CNHS |
| Jaiswal | Jyoti | PhD | Cell biology of tissue repair and regeneration with a focus on muscle diseases; Cell biology of viral diseases | CNHS |
| Jose | Pedro | MD, PhD | Role of dopamine, adrenergic, and angiotensin receptors subtypes and dopamine regulatory genes or sodium transport in the pathogenesis of genetic hyptertension and metabolic syndrome | GW |
| Keller | Michael | MD | Adoptive immunotherapy and antiviral T cell immunity in immunocompromised patients | CNHS |
| Lee | Jiyoung | PhD | Molecular signaling mechanisms by which metastasis regulators modify gene expression and functional phenotypes in cancer | GW |
| Lee | Norman | PhD | Cancer disparities in the African American population using animal experiments and molecular biology; cancer genomics; molecular mechanisms of metastasis and cancer drug resistance; regulation of RNA splicing | GW |
| Li | Rong | PhD | Molecular understanding of risk factors for breast cancer [See webpage] | GW |
| Li | Wei | PhD | Genome editing technology and new computational algorithms to better understand how coding and non-coding elements function especially in human cancer, and to further identify novel molecular targets to inform precision medicine | CNHS |
| Limperopoulos | Catherine | PhD | Novel, patient-centered clinical and translational research in pregnant women and neurodiagnostic and neurodevelopmental surveillance in high-risk fetuses and preterm infants | CNHS |
| Lu | Hui | PhD | Neural circuit dysfunction; circuit dysfunctions in MeCP2-deficient mice related to motor function, social interactions, and emotional states | GW |
| Lynch | Rebecca | PhD | Harnessing antibodies for HIV therapy and cure and flavivirus antibody responses. | GW |
| Maggirwar | Sanjay | PhD, MBA | Underlying mechanisms of HIV-associated illnesses such as thrombosis, atherosclerosis, cancers and neurocognitive impairments [See video] | GW |
| Marvar | Paul | PhD | Characterization of the neurocircuitry in the brain that contributes to stress-induced hypertension and other stress-related disorders such as PTSD | GW |
| Mazumder | Raja | PhD | Applied bioinformatics; comprehensive comparative analysis at the genomic level | GW |
| Mendelowitz | David | PhD | Role of the autonomic nervous system in cardiorespiratory diseases; identification of novel targets for treating diseases such as sleep apnea and heart failure | GW |
| Nino | Gustavo | MS, MSHS | Developmental immunology of the human airway epithelium, pathobiology of respiratory disorders in infants born prematurely, novel tools for respiratory phenotyping in young children | CNHS |
| Novak | James | PhD | Gene therapy strategies for muscular dystrophies; molecular and cellular mechanisms of tissue repair and muscle disease pathogenesis | CNHS |
| Pei | Yanxin | PhD | Molecular mechanisms underlying tumor development and therapy resistance in pediatric brain tumors and identifying novel therapeutic approaches to treating the disease | CNHS |
| Polotsky | Vsevolod | MD | Pathogenesis of sleep disordered breathing and its complications | GW |
| Polter | Abigail | PhD | Circuit and synaptic-level effects of stress and adversity [See video] | GW |
| Posnack | Nikki | PhD | Cardiovascular physiology, pharmacology and pediatric heart models [See video] | CNHS |
| Sepulveda | Antonia | MD, PhD | Novel regulatory pathways and early biomarkers of cancer of the esophagus, stomach, colorectum, and pancreas using innovative genomics, transcriptomics, and computational image analyses | GW |
| Seto | Edward | PhD | Epigenetics; histone deacetylase (HDAC), enzymes that catalyze the removal of acetyl groups from the lysine residues of histones | GW |
| Shibata | Maho | PhD | Prostate organogenesis and cancer, prostate macrophages, stem/progenitor cells and organoids | GW |
| Shook | Brett | PhD | Molecular and cellular regulation of immune cells in mammalian skin | GW |
| Sidorov | Michael | PhD | Neural circuits and behavior in autism-like neurodevelopmental disorders; mechanisms of visual encoding and plasticity. | CNHS |
| Torii | Masaaki | PhD | Molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern differentiation of neuronal and glial subtypes in normal development of the cerebral cortex; role of these processes of cognitive and psychiatric disorders | CNHS |
| Triplett | Jason | PhD | Mechanisms of visual circuit development; analysis of visual dysfunction and circuit disorganization in neurodevelopmental disorders | CNHS |
| Tzatsos | Alexandros | MD, PhD | Epigenetic progression model of pancreatic cancer; Epigenetic regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells | GW |
| Watkins | David | PhD | Immune response to viruses including HIV, Zika, Dengue, Yellow fever and the new coronavirus encompassing MHC genetics, viral evolution, CD8+ T cell responses, antibody cloning and expression, vaccine development and diagnostics. | GW |
| Wu | Ray-Chang | PhD | Chromatin remodeling proteins in the development and therapy resistance of cancers | GW |
| Young | Colin | PhD | CNS molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular and metabolic diseases | GW |
| Zheng | Xiaoyan | PhD | Identification of target genes regulated by the Hedgehog signaling pathway and molecular mechanisms activated by Hedgehog in regulating cell-cell interactions | GW |
| Zhu | Wenge | PhD | DNA replication. DNA damage checkpoint and repair, histone modification, and identification of small molecules for cancer therapy | GW |
| Zohn | Irene | PhD | Developmental mechanisms mediating gene-environment interactions underlying structural birth defects such as spina bifida and congenital heart defects | CNHS |