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 Peter J.A. Davies, MD, PhD Herbert L. DuPont, MD Madeleine Duvic, MD Richard J. Ford, MD, PhD Peter R.C. Gascoyne, PhD Yong-Jian Geng, PhD Peng Huang, MD, PhD Mien-Chie Hung, PhD Robert L. Hunter, MD, PhD Chinnaswamy Jagannath, PhD Victoria Knutson, PhD Sue-Hwa Lin, PhD Jun Lui, PhD	Sendurai A. Mani, PhD Timothy J. McDonnell, MD, PhD Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD Frank G. Moody, MD Steven J. Norris, PhD Angel Paredes, PhD Sudhir Paul, PhD Jagannadha K. Sastry, PhD Keri C. Smith, PhD James K. Stoops, PhD Henry W. Strobel, PhD Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD, DPhil Ba-bie Teng, PhD Elizabeth L. Travis, 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 at The University of Texas Medical School 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 at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. Myocardial and vascular cell biology and pathology; calcium homeostasis; phospholipid metabolism; adrenergic mechanisms

Peter J.A. Davies, M.D., Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology at The University of Texas Medical School- Houston. Retinoids, Cell Death, and Metabolic Diseases.

Yong-Jian Geng, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School Houston and The Texas Heart Institute. Cardiovascular gene expression; apoptosis; lipoprotein metabolism; transgenic mice; gene and cell therapy; tissue engineering .

Victoria Knutson, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. Insulin receptor; signal transduction; tyrosine kinase; breast cancer.

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.

Frank G. Moody, M.D.: Professor, Department of Surgery at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. The pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis and multiple organ failure.

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.

Edward T.H. Yeh, M.D.: Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.Regulation of SUMO and NEDD8 modification; Stem Cell Transplant for Cardiovascular Diseases.

The Pathogenesis and Immunological Basis of Infectious Disease

Jeffrey K. Actor, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Medical School 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 at The University of Texas Medical School-Houston. Tuberculosis.

Chinnaswamy Jagannath, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. The biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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

Sudhir Paul, Ph.D.: Professor, Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Medical School 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 at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. Cellular immunology, Mucosal Immunology.

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

The Structural Basis of Disease

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

Angel Paredes, Ph.D.:  Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Medical School-Houston. Structural Biology, Virology and Cryo Electron Microscopy

James K. Stoops, Ph.D: Professor, Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Medical School Houston. Structure-function Studies of Macromolecules of Biological Interest.