Graduate Students

Molecular Pathology Program Faculty Advisors

Diane L. Hickson- Bick, Ph.D., Program Director
Jeffrey K. Actor, PhD Ralph B. Arlinghaus, PhD L. Maximilian Buja, MD Jiale Dai, PhD Herbert L. DuPont, MD Richard J. Ford, MD, PhD Yong-Jian Geng, PhD Peng Huang, MD, PhD Robert L. Hunter, MD, PhD Chinnaswamy Jagannath, PhD M. Tien Kuo, PhD Sue-Hwa Lin, PhD Jun Lui, PhD Sendurai A. Mani, PhD	Timothy J. McDonnell, MD, PhD Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD Steven J. Norris, PhD Pablo C. Okhuysen, MD Angel Paredes, PhD Sudhir Paul, PhD Jagannadha K. Sastry, PhD Subrata Sen, PhD Keri C. Smith, PhD Henry W. Strobel, PhD Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD, DPhil Ba-bie Teng, PhD Audrey Wanger, PhD Edward T.H. Yeh, MD

Faculty Research Interests

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Cellular and Molecular Pathology of Human Disease

Diane L. Hickson-Bick, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Program Director, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. The role of cardiolipin in the induction of apoptosis, toxic shock and the heart. Cardiac fatty acid metabolism.

L. Maximilian Buja, M.D., Executive Vice President UT Health Science Center and Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Myocardial and vascular cell biology and pathology; calcium homeostasis; phospholipid metabolism; adrenergic mechanisms

Yong-Jian Geng, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Medicine and Atherosclerosis Research, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School Houston and Director of Stem Cell and Heart Failure Research, The Texas Heart Institute. Cardiovascular pathobiology, stem cells, regenerative medicine, gene and cellular therapy; apoptosis; lipoprotein metabolism; transgenic animals; cardiovascular tissue engineering.

Dianna M. Milewicz, M.D., Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. Molecular Pathology of Human Genetic Disorders Altering the Elastic Fiber System.

Henry W. Strobel, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. Drug metabolism; carcinogenesis; cancer chemotherapy; cytochrome P-450; neurobiology of drug action.

Heinrich Taegtmeyer, M.D., D.Phil.: Professor, Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. Energy substrate metabolism; gene expression and function of the heart; heart failure and diabetes.

Ba-bie Teng, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, Research Center for Human Genetics.Gene therapy, vector development, atherosclerosis, RNA editing.

The Pathogenesis and Immunological Basis of Infectious Disease

Jeffrey K. Actor, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Examination of host immune responses during parasitic disease; understanding proinflammatory and regulatory cytokines during mycobacterial infections; quantitative bioluminescent RT-PCR; vaccine development.

Herbert L. DuPont, M.D., Professor of Infectious Diseases and director, Center for Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. Worldwide study of the epidemiology; microbiology; genetic susceptibility, treatment and prevention of acute diarrhea.

Robert L. Hunter, M.D., Ph.D.: Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Tuberculosis.

Chinnaswamy Jagannath, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Macrophage-Dendritic cell-T cell interactions, Development of vaccines and adjuvants for infectious diseases including tuberculosis

Steven J. Norris, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Pathogenesis and Its Relationship to the Molecular Genetics of Invasive Bacteria.

Pablo C. Okhuysen, MD.: Professor, Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School-Houston. My laboratory is interested in the identification of variations in human genes that influence the attachment, colonization, recognition by the innate immune system, inflammatory response and the specific acquired immune response to enteropathogens that cause diarrhea.

Sudhir Paul, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Evolution of catalytic activity in antibodies (Abs); Functional role of Ab catalysis in autoimmune disease; Elicitation of catalytic immunity in vaccination against cancer and microbes; Interactions of amphiphilic neuropeptides with lipids .

Jagannadha K. Sastry, Ph.D.:Professor, Department of Immunology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. HIV-AIDS; cervical cancer; vaccines; cellular immunology; synthetic peptides.

Keri C. Smith, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Cellular immunology, Mucosal Immunology.

Audrey Wanger, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Application of Molecular Biology to Clinical Microbiology.

The Structural Basis of Disease

Jun Lui, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Structural Biology, Microbiology, Virology and Cryo Electron Microscopy