T-32 Mentors

Name	Primary/Secondary Appointments	Research Interests	Role
Sznajder, Jacob I	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Acute respiratory failure, alveolar epithelial cell biology, effect of hypoxia and hypercapnia on the sodium-potassium ATPase function and alveolar fluid clearance	Program Director
Budinger, GR Scott	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Inhaled particulates, acute respiratory failure, hyperoxic lung injury, lung cell apoptosis	Co-Director
Jones, Jonathan	Cell & Molecular Biology / Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Elucidating how extracellular matrix regulates the behavior of cells	Co-Director
Sporn, Peter	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Airway inflammation and remodeling; mechanical stress and airway remodeling; hypercapnia and innate immunity in the lung	Co-Director
Beitel, Greg	Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology / The Center for Genetic Medicine	Genetic and molecular mechanisms by which endothelial and epithelial cells regulate the sizes of tubes in organs such as the vascular system, lung and kidney; molecular mechansims and effects of cellular responses to the elevated CO2	Mentor
Chandel, Navdeep	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Apoptosis, oxygen sensing, mitochondria, oxidant stress	Mentor
Ciechanover, Aaron	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Role of the ubiquitin system in the SMAC/DIABLO mediated inhibition of IAP molecules during apoptosis, HIF-1 a stabilization, p53 and MyoD activation.	Mentor
Corbridge, Thomas	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mechanical ventilation, medical education	Mentor
Daviglus, Martha	Preventive Medicine	Cardiovascular risk factors, low risk, morbidity, mortality, health-related quality of life, health care costs, healthy aging, minority health, long-term observational studies	Mentor
Glucksberg, Matthew	Biomedical Engineering / Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Pulmonary mechanics and lung liquid transport, design for global health, non-invasive sensing of blood flow and analytes	Mentor
Goldman, Robert	Cell & Molecular Biology / Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Neurofilaments in cell lines and DRG, live cell imaging	Mentor
Gottardi, Cara	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Molecular mechanisms of cell-cell adhesion regulation required for normal tissue morphogenesis; how alterations in cell adhesion complexes drive disease states such as cancer and fibrosis	Mentor
Gruenbaum, Yosef	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	The sensing and respond mechanisms to hypercapnia	Mentor
Hersam, Mark	Materials Science and Engineering / Chemistry	Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques that enable sensing, characterization, and actuation at the single molecule level	Mentor
Jain, Manu	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Respiratory diseases, cytokines, lungs and breathing problems -- ARDS, sepsis, cystic fibrosis- bacterial genotypic and phenotypic diversity, mechanisms of fibrosis in lung disease	Mentor
Kalhan, Ravi	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Asthma, COPD, COPD pathobiology	Mentor
Kamp, David	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Asbestos, air-borne particulate matter, idiopathic interstitial lung disease	Mentor
McGaghie, William	Preventive Medicine	Research in medical education	Mentor
Morimoto, Richard	Biochemistry / Molecular & Cell Biology	Chaperone networks and mechanisms of protein conformational disease	Mentor
Mutlu, Gokhan	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Understanding the mechanisms by which particulate matter air pollution causes cardiovascular morbidity and mortality including arterial and venous thrombosis, ischemic cardiovascular events as well as obstructive sleep apnea	Mentor
Ramsey- Goldman, Rosalind	Rheumatology	Autoimmune diseases, epidemiology, osteoporosis, rheumatology, women's health -- epidemiology of systemic lupus erythematosus, pregnancy and rheumatic diseases, steroidinduced osteoporosis, clinical drug trials in lupus	Mentor
Ridge, Karen	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Acute lung injury, alveolar epithelial cell biology, mechanotransduction in the lung	Mentor
Schleimer, Robert	Allergy-Immunology	Mechanisms of pathogenesis in allergic disease, role of cytokines and chemokines, mechanism of action of glucocorticoids, role of innate and adaptive immune responses in airways, translational investigations in humans to molecular biological assessment	Mentor
Schumacker, Paul	Pediatrics / Cell and Molecular Biology	Response to hypoxia in cardiopulmonary disease and cancer	Mentor
Smith, Lewis	Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Preventative Medicine	The role of diet in asthma severity, especially the effect of dietary antioxidants and soy isoflavones	Mentor
Szleifer, Igal	Biomedical Engineering / Chemistry	Molecular modeling of biointerphases; complex molecular systems that encompass problems at the interface between biology, chemistry, physics and materials science	Mentor
Varga, John	Rheumatology	Fibrosis (scarring) that results from tissue injury in the lungs, kidney, liver, and in association with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in multiple organs	Mentor

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