The following is a list of Faculty Mentors who participated in the 2009 College of Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program. To learn more about research conducted by these investigators and their expertise, click on the name of the investigator. This will direct you to their entry in our Faculty Research Expertise Database. The faculty participating in the 2010 program will be listed when this information becomes available.
| Investigators | Research Interests
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| Dr. Steve Abcouwer | How microglial cells function as the innate immune system and regulate inflammation in the retina.
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| Dr. Vern Chinchilli | Biostatistics, clinical trials, observational studies, crossover design, longitudinal and multivariate analysis |
| Dr. James Connor | Iron transport and toxicity in neurodegenerative diseases/oxidative cell injury |
| Dr. Rebecca Craven | Genetic and biomedical studies of retrovirus matuation. |
| Dr. Sue Grigson | Neural basis of reward comparison.
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| Dr. Susan Hafenstein | 3-D visualization of virus host interactions in viral pathogenesis and evolution |
| Dr. Andras Hajnal | Neural mechanisms of taste reward in rat models of obesity and gastric bypass surgery |
| Dr. Leonard S. Jefferson | Regulation of gene expression in mammalian cells by hormones and nutrients |
| Dr. Mark Kester | Regulation of kinase cascades by lipid-derived second messengers |
| Dr. James Leaming | Emergency research examining prehospital and in-hospital management of trauma, cardiac and neurologic emergencies |
Dr. Jianhua Li
| Autonomic control of the circulation in cardiovascular diseases |
| Dr. Leslie Parent | Retrovirus-cell internations |
| Dr. Chris Siedlecki | Molecular interactions in biomaterial-induced blood thrombogenesis.
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| Dr. Thomas Terndrup | Bioterrorism and emergency preparedness - technology enriched education & training |
| Dr. Joyce Tobran-Tink | Molecular processes that trigger degenerative signals in the retina and ways to prevent or delay cell death in blinding diseases such as age related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy |
| Dr. Greg Yochum | Wnt/b-catenin and mitogen regulation of MYC gene expression |
