Joseph D. Brain, SD; Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology. Function and structure of pulmonary macrophages; deposition and clearance of inhaled particles and responses to them; respiratory infection.
David C. Christiani, MD, MPH; Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology. Occupational diseases; biomarkers and molecular epidemiology.
Brent Coull, PhD; Associate Professor of Biostatistics. Categorical data analysis and semiparametric regression modeling; research interests in health effects of air pollution and the interrelationship between the microbial community and pollutants in the New Bedford Harbor area.
Bruce Demple, PhD; Professor of Toxicology. Repair enzymes for oxidative DNA damage; molecular biology of cellular responses to oxidative stress.
Douglas Dockery, ScD; Department Chair of Environmental Health. Identification of the chemical and physical characteristics of airborne particles contributing to adverse health effects, studies of the pathways of acute cardiovascular events associated with air pollution exposure to link these epidemiologic findings with toxicologic studies of particle effects; methods development for assessment of air pollution health effects as well as other environmental hazards, including contamination of water supplies.
Russ Hauser, MD, MPH, ScD; Associate Professor of Environmental Health. Reproductive and developmental epidemiology; effects of endocrine disruptors on male and female reproductive endpoints.
Robert Herrick, ScD; Senior Lecturer of Industrial Hygiene. Occupational health and exposure assessment in studies of biomarkers and asphalt exposures; estimation of long-term exposures for cancer studies.
Tiffany Horng, PhD; Assistant Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases. The epigenetics of inflammation.
Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, MD, PhD; Department Chair; James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism. Molecular basis of metabolic diseases; studies on regulatory pathways; signal transduction in mammalian cells; biology of fatty-acid binding proteins.
Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD; Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology. Diet and physical activity in relation to cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes; role of diet and lifestyle in preventing macrovascular complications in diabetics.
David J. Hunter, MPH, SD; Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition. Cancer epidemiology; molecular and genetic epidemiology.
Peter Kraft, PhD; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Genetic epidemiology of complex disease; survival analysis.
Petros Koutrakis, PhD; Professor of Environmental Sciences. Development of human exposure measurement techniques and the investigation of sources, transport, and the fate of air pollutants.
Nan Laird, PhD; Professor of Biostatistics. Development of methodology in statistical genetics, longitudinal studies, missing or incomplete data, and analysis of multiple informant data; analysis of family-based studies in genetics and genetic studies of bipolar disorder, asthma and lung disease.
Christoph Lange, PhD; Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Statistical genetics and generalized linear models; collaborative research in asthma genetics and COPD.
Chih-Hao Lee, PhD; Assistant Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases. The role of nuclear hormone receptors in metabolic diseases.
Cheng Li, PhD; Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Computational biology; genetic network modeling.
Xihong Lin , PhD; Professor of Biostatistics. Development of statististical methods for correlated data and high dimensional data. Examples of correlated data include longitudinal data, clustered data, hierarchical data and spatial data. Examples of high dimensional data include proteomics data.
Xiaole (Shirley) Liu, PhD; Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Computational genomics, especially sequence analysis related to transcription and translation regulations.
Brendan D. Manning, PhD; Assistant Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases. Signal transduction pathways underlying tumor development and metabolic diseases.
James Mitchell, PhD; Assistant Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases. DNA repair genes and aging.
Christopher Paciorek, PhD; Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Use of spatial and spatio-temporal models to estimate exposure to pollutants, and the use of these exposure estimates in epidemiological models for health outcomes using cohort and case-control studies.
John Quackenbush, PhD; Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Genomic and computational approaches to study patterns of gene expression in cancer with the goal of elucidating the networks and pathways that are fundamental in the development and progression of the disease.
Eric B. Rimm, SD; Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition. Relation of diet to diseases, especially obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease; impact of antioxidants, B vitamins, fiber, and alcohol on serum and genetic markers.
Louise Ryan, PhD; Chair of the Department of Biostatistics. Statistical methods related to environmental risk assessment of cancer, developmental and reproductive toxicity, and other non-cancer endpoints such as respiratory disease.
Joel Schwartz, PhD; Professor of Environmental Epidemiology. Health consequences of exposure to pollutants.
Thomas Smith, PhD; Professor of Industrial Hygiene. Characterization of environmental exposures for studies of health effects, and investigation of the quantitative relationship between environmental exposure and internal dose.
John (Jack) Spengler, PhD; Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation. Exposure assessment for environmental contaminants present in air, water, food, and soil; personal monitoring techniques to study population exposures occurring in homes, offices, schools and during transit.
Helen Suh, PhD; Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences. Assessment of community exposures to particles and toxic gases for studies of heart and lung disease.
Lee-Jen Wei, PhD; Professor of Biostatistics. Design and analysis of clinical trials; repeated measurements analysis; survival analysis.
Marianne Wessling-Resnick, PhD; Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry. Regulation of the cellular uptake of macromolecular nutrients; molecular basis of iron transport.