Physician Scientist Training Program
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January 8, 2009 |
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| Aberg, Judith (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director of Virology | HIV/AIDS Clinical research including prevention, diagnosis and management of HIV and its complications. Attached please find a more detailed description. |
| Ayappa, Indu (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine | Diagnosis and treatment of sleep disordered breathing. Mechanisms of collapse of the upper airway. Understanding cognitive impairment in SDB. Interaction with cardiovascular disease, obesity, pregnancy and metabolic syndrome, brain dysfunction (degenerative and psychiatric), pediatric sleep disordered breathing (ADHD) |
| Bach, Erika (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology | Stem cell self-renewal and tumorigenesis. Regulation of gene expression downstream of growth factor receptor signaling using Drosophila as a model system. |
| Barcellos-Hoff, Mary Helen (Ph.D.) | Departments of Radiation Oncology, and Cell Biology | Biology of breast cancer. Radiation therapy. NASA space radiation biology. Transforming growth factor beta biology. |
| Bar-Sagi, Dafna (Ph.D) | Chair, Department of Biochemistry | Link between chronic inflammation and cancer w/ special emphasis on pancreatic cancer. |
| Belasco, Joel (Ph.D.) | Professor, Skirball Institute | Mammalian gene regulation by microRNAs. Mechanisms of mRNA degradation in bacteria. |
| Blaser, Martin (M.D.) | Chair, Department of Medicine | |
| Blumenberg, Miroslav (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Dermatology, and Biochemistry | DNA microarrays. Effects of proinflammatory and immunomodulatory cytokines. Differentiation. |
| Borkowsky, William (M.D.) | Professor, Department of Pediatrics | HIV pathogenesis. Pediatric developmental immunology. |
| Buoutjdir, Mohamed (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Medicine | Channelopathies and mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and reperfusion arrhythmias. |
| Burden, Steven (Ph.D.) | Professor, Skirball Institute | Neuromuscular synapse formation. Congenital neuromuscular disorders. Myasthenia gravis. Muscle atrophy and wasting. Myopathies. |
| Carlton, Jane (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medical Parasitology | Genetics and genomics of human parasites including malaria. Comparing parasite genomes ('comparative genomics') using in silico bioinformatics, molecular evolution and population genetic methods. |
| Chao, Moses V. (Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Physiology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry | Neurotrophin receptor signaling mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric disorders and infectious diseases. |
| Chesler, Mitch (M.D., Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Neurosurgery | Study of pH regulation in the brain under normal and pathological conditions (seizure, hypoxia, ischemia). |
| Coetzee, William (D.Sc.) | Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, and Physiology and Neuroscience | Investigation of the roles of cardiovascular KATP channels in health and disease. |
| Cronstein, Bruce (M.D.) | Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, and Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Pharmacology | Adenosine receptors in health and disease. Adenosine receptors in the suppression of inflammation. Adenosine receptors in the regulation of bone metabolism. Adenosine receptors mediate the development of fatty liver and liver cirrhosis. Adenosine receptors regulate fibrosis. |
| Ernst, Joel (M.D.) | Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, and Professor, Department of Medicine | Host-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis |
| Ferrari, Anna (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, and NYU Clinical Cancer Center | Prostate cancer with focus on the role of the androgen receptor and growth factor signaling pathways in disease progression and resistance to therapy. |
| Fishell, Gordon (M.D.) | Professor, Department of Cell Biology | Brain development, Inhibitory cortical interneurons and developmental genetics. |
| Fishman, Glenn (M.D.) | Director, Division of Cardiology, and Professor, Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Neuroscience, and Pharmacology | Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias. |
| Formenti, Silvia (M.D.) | Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology | Breast cancer translational research. |
| Franke, Thomas (M.D., Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, and Pharmacology | Akt signaling pathway and the characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying its involvement in normal physiology and pathologic biological responses. Currently working in two specific areas: (1) the role of Akt and its targets in normal and pathological cognition and synaptic plasticity; (2) the validation of molecular mechanisms of Akt-dependent apoptosis suppression as prognostic markers and therapeutic targets in cancer therapy. |
| Frevert-Clarkson, Ute (DVM, Ph.D) | Associate Professor, Department of Medical Parasitology | Malaria pathogenesis in liver and brain. Cell biology of various liver cell types, in particular, Kupffer cells. Interaction between cytotoxic T cells and Plasmodium antigen presenting target cells. |
| Gany, Francesca (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | Immigrant health and health disparities reduction, with focus on cardiovascular disease and South Asian communities. The language barrier and medical outcomes. Smokeless tobacco and immigrant communities. Cancer disparities reduction in immigrant communities. Community-based participatory research and informed consent and immigrant and low literacy populations. |
| Gardner, Lawrence (M.D.) | Assistant Professors, Departments of Medicine, and Pharmacology | Regulation of gene expression in hypoxic cells and in cancer. Cell cycle regulation in hypoxic cells. |
| Ghiso, Jorge (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology, and Psychiatry | Cerebral and non-cerebral disorders of protein folding. Biochemical and biophysical composition of amyloid deposits. Catabolic mechanism(s) of amyloid subunits in vivo. |
| Gordon, Terry (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine | Examine the contribution of genetic susceptibility to the lung disease produced by inhaled pollutants. Use experimental models to study the mechanisms underlying the adverse pulmonary effects of occupational and environmental air pollutants. |
| Gourevitch, Marc (M.D., M.P.H.) | Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine | Integration of screening and pharmacotherapy for addictions into general medical settings |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine | Pharmacogenetics and gene expression profiling to predict response to rheumatoid arthritis therapeutics. | |
| Hay, John (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | Adenoviral approaches to lung cancer and mesothelioma therapy. |
| Helpern, Joseph (Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Physiology and Neuroscience | The development and application of quantitative MRI methods for the study of neurologic and psychiatric disorders including normal aging, AD, stroke, schizophrenia, and ADHD. |
| Hochman, Judith (M.D.) | Professor, Department of Cardiology, and Director, Cardiovascular Clinical Research | Cardiovascular disease (acute coronary syndromes, sex differences, clinical trials). |
| Hochster, Howard (M.D.) | Professor, Department of Medicine, and Cancer Center | Clinical and pharmacologic studies in colorectal cancer. Pharmacodynamics of gemcitabine and targeted drugs . |
| Hubbard, Jane (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Skirball Institute | Roles of selected conserved signal transduction pathways involved in human disease on the control of stem cell proliferation in vivo, using C. elegans as a model. |
| Kalet, Adina (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | Medical education research, professionalism. Clinical skills assessment and remediation. Educational informatics. Moral development in medicine. Research methods. Psychometrics. Survey design. Instructional design. Doctor-patient communication practice and research. Women's careers in medicine. Mentoring as a skill. Writing for publication. Grant writing. Curriculum development. Educational outcomes measurement. |
| Karpatkin, Simon (M.D.) | Director, Division of Hematology, and Professor, Department of Medicine | Molecular mechanisms for autoimmune thrombocytopenia. Role of thrombin in tumor dormancy. |
| Kirsch, Thorstein (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery | Cell biology and cell signaling. Limb development. Bone and cartilage development. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system. |
| Klein, Hannah (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Biochemistry | DNA damage response. Genomic instability in normal and tumor cells. |
| Krogsgaard, Michelle (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, and NYU Cancer Institute | Immunology/cancer immunology. Melanoma research. |
| Landau, Nathaniel (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Micriobiology | HIV molecular biology. Innate mechanisms of resistance to retroviruses. HIV regulatory and accessory proteins. |
| Lee, Vivian (Ph.D.) | Vice Dean for Science, and Professor, Departments of Radiology, and Physiology and Neuroscience | Noninvasive physiological measurements of renal physiology in health and disease using magnetic resonance imaging. MR angiography of the vasculature using techniques that do not require exogenous contrast material - technical development and vascular applications. |
| Lehmann, Ruth (Ph.D.) | Director, Skirball Institute | Germ cell development. RNA regulation in stem cells. Developmental genetics. |
| Lipkin, Mack (M.D.) | Professor, Department of Medicine | Doctor-patient communication. General Internal Medicine. Primary care. Medical education research. Bioterrorism and disaster response. Psychosocial medicine. Clinical epidemiology. |
| Littman, Dan (M.D., Ph.D.) | Professor, Skirball Institute | Autoimmune disease mechanisms. HIV pathogenesis. Host-microbe interactions. |
| Logan, Susan (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Departments of Urology, and Pharmacology | The role of the androgen receptor in prostate or breast cancer. |
| Malaspina, Dolores (M.D.) | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | Translational research: with studies in epidemiological cohorts, clinical samples of patients with social, emotional or conditions. Brain functioning in women who undergo ovarectomy for cancer risk. Animal models. |
| Mignatti, Paolo (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cell Biology | Non-proteolytic activation of intracellular signaling and tumor progression by membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP): a novel target for proteinase inhibitors. Converting VEGF, the major tumor angiogenesis factor, into an inducer of vascular endothelial cell apoptosis: a paradigm-shifting approach to anti-angiogenesis therapy. |
| Mohammadi, Moosa (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Pharmacology | Molecular mechanisms of fibroblast growth factor signaling in development, homeostasis and disease. |
| Mohr, Ian (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology | Virus-host interactions that regulate protein synthesis and viral pathogenesis. Infectious disease (HSV, cytomegalovirus, KSHV, poxviruses, influenza). HSV-1 latency in neurons. |
| Morley, Gregory (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine | Arrhythmogenic potential of changes in myocyte/myocyte electrical coupling in development and disease. Elucidating the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias at the cellular and whole heart levels. Developing approaches to fundamentally change cardiac ablation procedures. |
| Muggia, Franco (M.D.) | Director, Division of Oncology, and Professor, Department of Medicine and Cancer Institute | Diagnosis and treatment of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Intraperitoneal therapy of gastric and ovarian cancers. |
| Munger, John (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | TGF-beta and integrin activation mechanisms. |
| Natarajan, Sundar (M.D., MSc.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | Two main areas: A) Novel behavioral interventions to improve quality of care. Examples include using the Transtheoretical model or Prospect theory to improve diet, exercise and medication adherence behaviors in adults with hypertension, diabetes or stroke; and B) Analyses of population-based databases to answer questions in cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention. |
| Neubert, Thomas (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, and Skirball Institute Program in Structural Biology | Study of signal transduction (especially in neurons) by quantitative proteomics. Discovery of biomarkers for early detection of cancer and other diseases by mass spectrometry. |
| Nixon, Ralph (M.D., Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Cell Biology | All aspects of Alzeheimer's disease and related disorders. Proteolysis and protease trafficking/regulation. Neuronal cytoskeleton dynamics. |
| Novick, Richard (M.D.) | Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology | Gram-positive pathogens. |
| Nolan, Anna (M.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine | Transgenic animal models of sepsis. |
| Nyambi, Phillipe (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology | HIV genetic diversity and evolution. |
| Ogedegbe, Gbenga (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | Dissemination and implementation research. Health disparities and minority health research. Cardiovascular risk reduction and behavior change research. |
| Orlow, Seth (M.D., Ph.D.) | Chair, Department of Dermatology | Overcoming melanoma resistance to chemotherapy. Drug repositioning to treat melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Biology of melanocytes. Pathogenesis of oculocutaneous and ocular albinism. |
| Pavlick, Anna (D.O.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, and Cancer Center | Clinical trials in melanoma treatment. |
| Phillips, Mark (M.D.) | Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology, and Pharmacology | Signal transduction. Cell biology of small GTPases. Ras trafficking and signaling |
| Pintucci, Giuseppe (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery | Cross-talk between angiogenic growth factors and inflammatory mediators in both cancer and cardiovascular disease. |
| Reith, Maarten (Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology | Dopaminergic neurotransmission and drugs of abuse or Parkinson's disease. |
| Reibman, Joan (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Environmental Medicine | Asthma pathogenesis and genetics. Pulmonary response to World Trade Center dust. |
| Rice, Margaret (Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, and Physiology and Neuroscience | Neurochemical monitoring of dopamine release, electrophysiological studies of basal ganglia neurons, and the physiology and pathophysiology of reactive oxygen species, especially hydrogen peroxide. Nigrostriatal dopamine system or the mesolimbic dopamine system. Pathophysiology of stroke and mechanisms of ischemia-induced edema. |
| Rom, William (M.D., M.P.H.) | Director, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine - Department of Medicine | Pulmonary (lung cancer or carcinogenesis, lung inflammation & fibrosis, environmental lung disease, tuberculosis, COPD). Environmental policy. |
| Ron, David (M.D.) | Professor, Departments of Medicine, and Cell Biology | Protein misfolded and disease (diabetes, cancer, atherosclerosis). Heart failure and cardiac pathophysiology. |
| Rostagno, Agueda (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology | Alzheimer's disease. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Structure-function relationship between amyloid oligomerization/fibrillization and the induction of apoptotic and inflammation-related cellular responses. |
| Rotrosen, John (M.D.) | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | Translational research in addiction. |
| Rudy, Bernardo (M.D., Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Physiology & Neuroscience, and Biochemistry | Electrophysiology and molecular biology of ion channels in excitable cells. Channelopathies including epilepsy, schizophrenia and autism. |
| Salzer, James (M.D., Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, and Neurology | Myelination/demyelination. Neural stem cells. Neural stem cells. Peripheral Neuropathies. |
| Samuels, Herb (M.D.) | Chair, Department of Pharmacology | Mechanism of nuclear hormone receptor gene regulation. Selective regulation of apoptosis of breast cancer cells. |
| Scharfman, Helen (Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Physiology and Neuroscience | Epilepsy and brain injury. Spinal cord injury. ALS. Sex differences in mental illness, Alzheimer's disease, and depression. |
| Schlame, Michael (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Cell Biology | |
| Schneider, Robert (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Microbiology | Oncology. Breast cancer. Inflammation. Genetics/genomics of breast cancer. (Most translational and basic research, but with heavy doses of clinical research and clinical trials.) |
| Schwab, Susan (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Skirball Institute | Immunology (with focus on lymphocyte trafficking and inflammation). |
| Schwartz, Mark (M.D.) | Associate Professor of Medicine | Health services research: Impact of ambulatory workplace characteristics (worklife) on physicians and on quality of patient care. Education research: Testing effectiveness of health professional educational interventions on patient outcomes. |
| Sherman, Scott (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, and Psychiatry, and Interim Chief, Section of Geriatric Medicine | Smoking cessation. Implementation research. Health services research. |
| Sigurdsson, Einar (Ph.D.) | Assistant Professor, Departments of Physiology & Neuroscience, and Psychiatry | Pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of Alzheimer's, prion diseases, type-2 diabetes and related neurodegenerative and protein conformational disorders. |
| Sinnis, Photini (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Medical Parasitology, and Medicine | Infectious state of the malaria parasite, the sporozoite. Study of the interaction between sporozoites and their mosquito and mammalian hosts and aim to define molecular interactions between host and parasite that can be exploited for drug and vaccine development. |
| Sivapalasingam, Sumathi (M.D.) | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine | Global HIV research. Infectious diseases. |
| Skolnik, Edward (M.D.) | Director, Division of Nephrology, and Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology | Kidney disease. Immunology: T and B cell function as it relates to autoimmune diseases. Signal transduction - for example signaling pathways that regulate cell growth and their relationship to cancer. |
| Smith, Susan (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Skirball Institute | Telomere biology in human cells (telomeres and telomerase in aging and in cancer). |
| Stokes, David (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Cell Biology | Structural biology of ATP-dependent cation pumps (e.g., CaATPase and phospholamban). Structural biology of cell-cell interactions (e.g., desmosomes and the immunological synapse). Structural biology of mitochondia. Structural biology of almost any complex cellular assembly that could be studied by electron tomography in tissues sections. |
| Sullivan, Regina (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Developmental behavioral neurobiology: neurobiology of infant attachment, development of amygdala dependent fear conditioning. |
| Sun, Tung-Tien (Ph.D.) | Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Dermatology, Pharmacology, and Urology | Membrane specialization during urothelial differentiation, Urological diseases. |
| Svirsky, Mario (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Otolaryngology | |
| Treisman, Jessica (Ph.D.) | Professor, Skirball Institute | Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling, retinal differentiation, and synaptogenesis. |
| Triola, Marc (M.D.) | Assistant Professor, Director-Division of Educational Informatics, and Chief-Section of Medical Informatics | Educational informatics. Medical education simulation. Virtual patients. |
| Tse, Doris (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | AIDS. AIDS-related diseases. Th cell development. |
| Unutmaz, Derya (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Microbiology, and Pathology | Diseases involving immune dysfunction and response [w/ focus on immune regulation by regulatory T cells, communication between effector T cells (Th17), mucosal or skin epithelium, and gut and skin-related autoimmune diseases (psoriasis)]. HIV pathogenesis and immune response to other infectious diseases. |
| Valentine, Fred (M.D.) | Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, and Director, Center for AIDS Research | Immunology or Pathogenesis of HIV disease. |
| Wang, Da-Neng (Ph.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology | Structure and mechanism of membrane transporters. Antibiotic resistance. Neurotransmission inhibition by SSRIs and cocaine. |
| Weiden, Michael (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Environmental Medicine | HIV/TB and bacterial pneumonia interaction. |
| Wilson, Donald (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Neurobiology of memory, sensory physiology and emotion. |
| Zabar, Sondra (M.D.) | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine | Medical education - curriculum design and assessment. Performance-based assessment of clinical competencies. Patient-doctor communications. Faculty development. |
| Ziff, Edward (Ph.D.) | Professor, Department of Biochemistry | Mechanisms of brain plasticity and neurodegeneration (ALS, stroke, Alzehiemer's Disease) studied at the molecular level. |
