Matthew  Boegehold, Ph.D.

Professor

Local and neural mechanisms controlling blood flow in the microcirculation, including role of endothelium; microvascular alterations in hypertension.
 

Vincent Castranova, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor

(NIOSH)
 

Pulmonary cell physiology, pulmonary inflammation, occupational lung diseases, inhalation toxicology.

John Connors, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
 

Neuroendocrine control of the hypothalamus-pituitary units controlling thyroids and gonads.

Mary Davis, Ph.D.

Professor
 

Environmental toxicology, focusing on toxicity of environmental/occupational pollutants to mammals.

Jeff Fedan, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor

(NIOSH)
 

Mechanisms of airway disorders and occupational asthma, particularly the mechanisms in airway epithelium responsible for hyperreactivity.

David Frazer, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

(NIOSH)
 

Respiration, bioengineering, lung acoustics, laser technology, and animal exposure systems.

Robert Goodman, Ph.D.

E.J. Van Liere Professor and Chair
 

Hypothalmic regulation of reproductive function; physiological infertility in seasonal breeders.

Leah Hammer, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
 

Gender differences and effect of aging on physiology and pathology of small blood vessels.

Pingnian He, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
 

Cellular mechanisms that regulate permeability in intact microvessels; inflammation and vascular integrity.

Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

(NIOSH)
 

Stress and neurotoxicity in dopaminergic neurons.

Ping Lee, Ph.D.

Professor
 

Membrane transport during cell differentiation and maturation, applications of x-ray microanalysis in biomedical sciences.

Jun Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
 

Role of caveolae (microdomains on the cell surface involved in endocytosis, transcytosis and signal transduction) and caveolin in angiogenesis.  

Michael Mawhinney, Ph.D.

Professor
 

Etiology of benign prostatic hyperplasia, which is an overgrowth of the prostate due primarily to smooth muscle cell proliferation.

Robert Mercer, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assoc. Professor

(NIOSH)
 

Physiology and pathophysiology of the lungs: morphological analysis of injury resulting from inhalation of airborne toxicants.

Ronald Millecchia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
 

Effects of deafferentiation on somatosensory fields.

Eiskuke Murono, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

(NIOSH)
 

Effects of occupational chemicals in altering male reproductive functions, especially testicular Leydig and Sertoli cell functions.

Timothy Nurkiewicz, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
 

Physiology and pathophysiology of microcirculation.

J. Vernon Odom, Ph.D.

Professor
 

Fundamental visual processes and their development over the lifespan. 

Mark Reasor, Ph.D.

Professor
 

Toxicological effects of chemicals on the lungs of animals.

Bernard Schreurs, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
 

Learning and memory, synaptic plasticity, functional imaging, psychoneuroimmunology.

Anna Shvedova, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Adjunct Associate Professor
 

Mechanism of chronic allergic skin and lung disease caused by industrial chemicals.

George Spirou, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
 

Neural feedback circuits mediating selective attention to sounds.

William Stauber, Ph.D.

Professor

Muscle physiology, exercise physiology, cumulative trauma disorder, repetitive stress injuries, muscle injury and repair, and muscle fibrosis and movement dysfunction.
 

Mark Willems, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Factors and mechanisms that contribute to injury and loss of function by stretches of activated skeletal muscles; physiological and structural adaptation of skeletal muscles due to altered demands (e.g., training and aging).

Stanley Yokota, Ph.D.

Associate Professor