Alberto Ascherio, MD, MPH, DPH; Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology. Relation of dietary factors to neurological diseases; epidemiology of multiple sclerosis; ALS, and Parkinson’s disease.
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.
Myles Brown, MD; Associated Professor of Medicine. Role of coregulators in nuclear receptor function.
Hannia Campos, PhD; Associate Professor of Nutrition. Dietary and genetic factors affecting lipoprotein metabolism and heart disease in humans; biochemical markers of dietary intake.
David C. Christiani, MD, MPH; Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology. Occupational diseases; biomarkers and molecular epidemiology.
Bruce Demple, PhD; Professor of Toxicology. Repair enzymes for oxidative DNA damage; molecular biology of cellular responses to oxidative stress.
Immaculata DeVivo, MPH, PhD; Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Etiology of cancer, specifically the relationship between genetic variation and disease risk for future prevention.
Albert J. Fornace, Jr, MD; Research Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases. Stress signaling pathways involved in the cellular responses
to genotoxic as well as oncogenic stresses.
Jeffrey J. Fredberg, SMME, PhD; Professor of Bioengineering and Physiology. Identification of the mechanical basis of airway and lung parenchymal function at the levels of organ, tissue, cell, and protein.
Edward L. Giovannucci, MD, MPH, SD; Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology. Etiologies of cancer with emphasis on dietary causes; methodologies to measure dietary factors in epidemiologic studies.
Guido Guidotti , PhD; Higgins Professor of Biochemistry. Structure and function of membrane proteins.
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.
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, SD; Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Epidemiology of metals toxicity using novel biological markers of dose and genetic susceptibility.
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.
Karl T. Kelsey, MD, MOH; Professor of Cancer Biology and Environmental Health. Occupational and environmental carcinogenesis, including molecular epidemiologic studies of the determinants of somatic genetic changes in cancer; cancer susceptibility.
Peter Kraft, PhD; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Genetic epidemiology of complex disease; survival analysis.
Raju Kucherlapati, PhD; Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics; Professor of Medicine. Mammalian genomics; molecular etiology of Velo-Cardio-Facial/DiGeorge Syndrome (VCFS/DGS); mouse models for human cancer; Noonan Syndrome (NS).
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.
Joseph P. Mizgerd, SD; Associate Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology. Physiology of inflammation, particularly the molecular mechanisms regulating the emigration of neutrophils.
Megan Murray, MD, MPH, DPH; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Identifying risk factors for the transmission of drug sensitive and resistant tuberculosis transmission using molecular and conventional epidemiologic methods; outcomes research in tuberculosis treatment and control programs.
Heather H. Nelson, MPH, PhD; Assistant Professor of Environmental Epidemiology. Cancer susceptibility and etiology, with particular emphasis on gene environment interaction and the genetic epidemiology of somatically acquired changes in malignant disease.
Donna S. Neuberg, SD; Lecturer on Biostatistics. Cancer clinical trials; genetic epidemiology.
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.
David E. Reich, PhD; Assistant Professor of Genetics. Human population genetics.
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.
Frederick (Fritz) P. Roth, PhD; Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. Network analysis of protein and genetic (sensu epistasis) interactions; analysis and guidance of high-throughput phenotyping efforts; probabilistic annotation of gene function; regulation of alternative splicing.
Frank M. Sacks, MD; Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. Human lipoprotein metabolism; effects of diet and hormones; dietary fatty acids and cardiovascular disease.
Charles N. Serhan, PhD; Simon Gelman Professor of Anesthesia. Structural elucidation of novel molecules and pathways that serve as pro-resolving and/or endogenous anti-inflammatory chemical signals.
Stephanie A. Shore, PhD; Senior Lecturer on Physiology. Airway physiology and pharmacology; role of neuropeptides in the pathogenesis of airway disease.
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.
Bruce Speigelman, PhD; Professor of Cell Biology. Molecular basis of cell differentiation and tissue development, using adipogenesis as a model system.
Meir J. Stampfer, MD, MPH, DPH; Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology. Influence of diet and exogenous hormones on health, particularly heart disease and cancer.
Daniel Tschumperlin, PhD; Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Airway Biology. Remodeling of the airway and its implications in asthma; transduction of physical forces at a cellular and molecular level.
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.
Walter C.Willett, MD, MPH, DPH; Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition. Investigation of dietary factors, using epidemiological methods, in the cause and prevention of cardiovascular and other diseases.
Dyann F. Wirth, PhD; Professor of Infectious Diseases. Mechanisms of drug resistance in malaria, including molecular genetic analysis and field-based studies; genetic analysis of malaria transmission; analysis of gene expression.
Dieter A. Wolf, MD; James Stevens Simmons Associate Professor of Molecular Oncology. Post-transcriptional mechanisms of cellular control; structure and function of RING ubiquitin ligases; control of initiation of mRNA translation.
Zhi-Min Yuan, MD, PhD; James Stevens Simmons Associate Professor of Radiobiology. Cancer biology; radiation research; cell-cycle regulation; signaling pathways.