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Faculty Name | Position | Areas of Interest | Active Research Projects | |
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Ahmed El-Shamy |
Assistant Professor |
1-General Virology 2-Viral Hepatitis 3-Liver Immunology |
I. Establishing in-vitro cell-based infectious system for drug screening against hepatitis B virus. |
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Anthony Kelada |
Psychiatry Clerkship Director Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurobiology, Neuroscience |
Available to hlep with literature reviews |
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Arpita Vyas |
Associate Professor |
Pediatrics Endocrinology, prenatal programming with endocrine disrupting checmicals and androgens, PCOS related projects. |
I. Molecular mechanism by which gestational exposures to androgens and endocrine disruptors adversely program the heart (animal models). II. Incidence of congenital heart disease in offspring of women with PCOS (data mining started at Sutter already). III. Role of GLP-1 treatment of PCOS. Psychological assessment tools in Pediatric Diabetes |
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Elena Dedkova |
Associate Professor |
Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) is a lethal inherited disease resulting from the reduction in a single mitochondrial protein, frataxin. Frataxin reduction causes progressive neurodegeneration in adolescents through adults, however most FA patients die of a frataxin-dependent cardiomyopathy, in their 30s. There is currently no FDA-approved therapy for FA. My research is focused on investigation of the mechanisms leading to lethal cardiomyopathy in FA and screening for the potential pharmacological agents which can improve cardiac function in patients with FA. |
NIH 1R01HL135187-01 Dedkova (PI) Fumarate drugs rescue cardiac dysfunction in mouse models of Friedreich's ataxia. The goal of this project is to determine whether fumarate-based drugs can rescue lethal cardiomyopathy in Friedreich's ataxia and to determine the underlying mechanisms of cardioprotection. |
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Eslam Mohamed |
Assistant Professor of Immunology |
Tumor Immunology and Allergy |
I. Exploring mechanisms regulating immunosuppressive myeloi cells in the tumor microenvironment |
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Floyd Culler & Mark Sheffield |
Professors |
Endocrinology |
Educational initiatives at COM (SILS) |
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Forshing Lui |
Professor of Neurology |
Neurology related case reports and reviews. Geriatrics research |
Serve as local faculty advisor for the MEdical Student Resarch in Aging (MSTAR) program. |
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Ghalib Alkhatib |
Ghalib. Alkhatib@cnsu.edu |
Professor |
HIV Research |
I. Mechanism of the Sars-COV-2 spike glycoprotein interaction with host cell receptors. III. In Vitro studies in drug discoveries HIV. |
Guy diSibio |
Associate Professor of Pathology, Hematology, Surgical Pathology, Molecular Genetics |
Integrating Electronic Medical Record traininging into the undergraduate medical curriculum. Hematopoietic malignancies: population genetics: DNA variant annotation using ACMG criteria: disparities in use of genetic testing. Innovation in medical student education |
Integrating elecectronic medical record training into the undergraduate medical curriculum. |
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Han-Rong Weng |
Associate Professor |
The overal goal of my research project is to identify molecular targets for the development of novel analgesics. Research in my lab focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the genesis of chronic pain in rodent (rat and mouse) models. |
Identification of molecular targets for the development of novel analgesics |
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Hongbin Wang |
Assistant Professor |
I. Pharmacology/Drug Development II. Cancer Cell Signaling III. Immunology Research: The Complement C4 in autoimmune diseases, sepsis, and diabetes |
I. Complement C4a mitigates LPS-induced endotoxic effects through association with PAR1 and PAR4 |
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Islam Mohamed |
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences (COP) |
Vascular Diseases, Development of Atherosclerosis, Shear stress-mediated vascular inflammation, shear- sensittive microRNAs |
Role of micro-RNA (miR-146a) in the development of atherosclerosis |
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James Jim |
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences (COP) |
I. Role of T cells in Ischemic Heart Injury and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy II. Modulation of S1P in Heart Injury III. Differentiation and Dedifferentiation of Cardiac Fibrosis |
I. Dedifferentiation of cardiac fibrosis II. Role of T cells in diabetic cardiomyopathy |
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John Cusick |
Associate Professor |
Tumor Necrosis Factor |
I. Identifying and characterizing novel protein interactions with human Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor superfamily members. |
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Jose Puglisi |
Assistant Professor Pharmacology |
Computer simulations of biological system. Telemedicine, 3D print, Data Mining |
I. Use of fitbit to track heart rate variabililty (Telemedicine) II. Electronic Medical Recoreds (Computer Simulations) III. Racial Patterns in Drug Consumption (Data Mining) IV. Model of Backbone Surgery (3D Printing) |
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Katherine Whitcome |
Assistant Professor |
Functional and Comparative Anatomy |
I. Validation of mHealth Technology Applied to Parkinson's Disease Patients II. Biomechanics of Bipedal Travel in Natural Mother-Infant Pairs: Anatomical and Kinemativ Modeling for UNderstanding Locomotor Transitions in Hominin Evolution |
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Leonard Ranasinghe |
Professor of Medical Education and Emergency Medicine |
Emergency Medicine related projects-chart review. ROPE: Delayed PE Diagnosis |
Available to help with case reports |
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Linh Ho |
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Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences (COP) |
Mitochondrial sirtuins and their modulators for metabolic diseases and cancer |
I. Role of Sirt3 in regulation of fat generation and insulin pathways in adipocytes II. Investigating effects of Sirt3 modulators on prostate cancer |
Mohamed Ahmed |
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Assistant Professor |
I. Chronic Kidney Disease IV. Metabolic Syndrome |
Project development underway. Interest in assisting students wil literature reivew, and/or in-vitro research project and Educational Research Projects |
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Raja Sivamani |
Associate Professor of Dermatology |
Clinical Studies in Dermatology |
Multiple ongoing studies |
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Rajendra Ramsamooj |
Professor of Pathology, Surgical Pathology and Clinical Skills |
Available to help with case studies or case series |
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Ruth Vinall |
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences (COP) |
Prostate and Bladder Cancer |
Determination of whether assessment of miRNA in canine blood and urine samples can be used to diagnose prostate cancer and to predict response to treatment |
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Sara Preiss- Farzanegan |
Associate Proffessor |
I am interested in educational research (especially as it relates to the OSCE), case studies and literature reviews. |
Available to help with case studies and literature reviews. |
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Uyen Le |
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences (COP) |
Drug Delivery/ Drug target Nanotechnology (liposome) Formulations of topical/ transdermal products |
I. Formulation and in vitro evaluation of of liposomes containing crinum latifolium extract for prostate cancer treatment II. Formulation and delivery of curcumin in synergistic effect with other agents in cancer prevention and treatment. III. Topical and transdermal delivery of nutraceuticals |
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Valerie Gerriets |
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology |
I. Immunology Research: The role of serotonin in the bidirectional interaction between the brain and immune system. |
Medical student burnout and psychological wellbeing. Effect of elective courses on stress and anxiety levels. |
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Eldo Frezza |
Professor of Surgery |
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I. Laparaoscopic Cholescytostomy tube placement in acute severe cholecystitis review of the literature. III. Engineering ED facility for Bioterrorism event. |