Faculty

David F. Albertini, Ph.D.
Hall Endowed Professor, Harvard University, 1975. Ovarian function, gamete biology, and early mammalian development.

Shrikant Anant, Ph.D.
Kansas Mason Professor for Cancer Research, Associate Director for Prevention and Cancer Control at the KU Cancer Center, Associate Dean for Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003. Posttranscriptional gene regulation in inflammation and cancer, Cancer Stem Cells and Chemoprevention.

Andrei Belousov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor. Moscow State University, Russia, 1992. Patch-clamp electrophysiology, calcium digital imaging, and immunocytochemistry using cell cultures and brain slices.  Recording of calcium and potassium ionic currents in neurons. 

V. Gustavo Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, M.D. Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, 1985, Ph.D. Instituto Mercedes y Martin Ferreyra, Cordoba, Argentina, 1990. Renal biology and Reproductive biology. Regulation and function of Na,K-ATPase isozymes.

Paul D. Cheney, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, State University of New York, 1975. Neurophysiology - motor control.

Vargheese M. Chennathukuzhi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1996.

Lane Christenson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Iowa State University, 1994. Ovarian function - transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation.

S. J. Enna, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1970. Brain neurotransmitter receptors, especially those associated with amino acid neurotransmitter substances.

Paige C. Geiger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mayo Graduate School, 2011 . Muscle physiology - the effects of exercise and age on muscle metabolism and insulin resistance; type ll diabetes.

Norberto C. Gonzalez, M.D.
Professor, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1962. Systemic oxygen transport during exercise. Acclimatization to hypoxia.

Leslie L. Heckert, Ph.D.
Marion M. Osborn Professor, Washington State University, 1991. Gene regulation and testis development.

Thomas J. Imig, Ph.D.
Professor, University of California, Irvine, 1972. Mechanisms of Tinnitus.

T. Rajendra Kumar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India, 1988. Genetic approaches to study the physiology of the mouse reproductive axis.

Phil Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center. University of Minnesota, 2000. Characterization and understanding of functional and physiological processes of the brain in vivo in health and disease using non-invasive neuroimaging techniques.

Steven M. LeVine, Ph.D.
Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1987. Neurobiology - multiple sclerosis and globoid cell leukodystrophy.

Randolph J. Nudo, Ph.D.
Professor and Director Center on Aging, Florida State University, 1985. Neural bases of recovery after stroke; motor learning; cortical plasticity.

Peter G. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Duke University, 1978. Developmental autonomic neurobiology, neuroplasticity, and regeneration.

John A. Stanford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Kansas, 1998. Age-related changes in motor function.

Lawrence P. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, 1959. Renal - ion transport.

C. Merrill Tarr, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Medical Education, Case Western Reserve, 1967. Cardiovascular - cardiac muscle electrophysiology.

Joseph S. Tash, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Cambridge (England), 1977. Reproduction - regulation of flagellar motility by protein phosphorylation.

Paul F. Terranova, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Reproductive Sciences; Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Louisiana State University, 1975. Ovarian tumor necrosis factor, follicular development, ovarian organization.

Shahid Umar, Ph.D.
Professor, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India 1993

James L. Voogt, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, 1970. Endocrinology - neurotransmitters in reproductive processes.

Michael W. Wolfe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Nebraska, 1990. Differentiation, regulation and function of pituitary gonadotropes and placenta trophoblasts.

John G. Wood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, 1981. Cardiovascular-microcirculation.

Research Track Faculty

Dora K. Agbas, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 1989.

Gaurav Chaturvedi, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, 1999. Mechanisms by which human embryonic stem cells maintain pluripotency.

Navneet K. Dhillon, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, 2002.  Pathogenesis of SHIV/HIV-associated end stage diseases.

Shawn B. Frost, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 1995. Neuroplasticity in recovery of function after stroke. Preclinical models of subcortical stroke.

Sumedha Gunewardena, D.Phil
Research Assistant Professor, Oxford University, 2005.

Melissa A. Larson, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, 2000. Transgenic and gene targeting.

Mihai Popescu, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center. Development of advanced MEG and fetal MCG source reconstruction techniques.

Satish Ramalingam, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor. University of Madras, Chennai, India, 2004

Dharmalingam Subramaniam, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor. University of Madras, Chennai, India, 2003

Stanislav R. Svojanovsky, Ing., Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2000; Ing. University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, 1982. Bioinformatics.

Stowers Affiliate

Peter Baumann, Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall, UK. Investigation of telomere maintenance and chromosome stability using both fission yeast and mammalian cells.

Scott Hawley, Ph.D.
Investigator, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas-Lawrence. University of Washington. Investigation of mechanisms that influence how chromosomes pair and segregate during meiosis using Drosophila (fruit fly) as an experimental
system.

Sue Jaspersen, Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. Role of SUN (Sad1 UNC-84 homology) proteins plays in chromosome positioning during interphase and chromosome positioning during mitosis.

Rong Li, Ph.D.
Investigator, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. University of California, San Francisco. Investigation of mechanism of cell polarization and cell motility, biochemical basis of dynamics in the actin cytoskeleton, and how eukaryotic cells divide.

Ho Yi Mak, Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. University College London, London, UK, 2000. Genetic regulation of fat storage.

Kausik Si, Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1999. Role of synaptic protein synthesis in information acquisition and memory storage.

Adjunct Faculty

Ken Audus, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair (Pharmaceutical Chemistry); Courtesy Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Kansas, 1984. Mechanisms of drug transport, metabolism, and tissue permeability in endothelial and epithelial cells.

Richard Barohn, MD
Professor (Chair, Neurology); University of Missouri - Kansas City, 1980. Research focuses on myopathies, peripheral neuropathies, and myastenia gravis.

Sandra Billinger, PT, Ph.D., FAHA
Research Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science

Sangita Biswas, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist at MidAmerican Neuroscience Institute. Banaras Hindu University, India, 1993. Neurobiology: Pathophysiology and therapeutics in globoid cell leukodystrophy and multiple sclerosis.

William (Bill) Brooks, Ph.D.
Director, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center. Brain imaging approaches to CNS disorders, traumatic brain injury and aging.

Shilpa Buch, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center. M.S. University, Baroda, India, 1982. Pathogenesis of CNS diseases, focusing on NeuroAIDS and PneumoAIDS.

Jeffrey Burns, MD
Assistant Professor (Neurology, Director, Alzheimer and Memory Center & Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Research Program). University of Kansas. Research focuses on brain aging and factors influencing the aging process and the onset of Alzheimer's.

Mark Chertoff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hearing & Speech. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Electrophysiologic and acoustic measures of auditory nonlinear processes.

In-Young Choi, Ph.D.  
Assistant Professor, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center. University of Minnesota. Neuroimaging and energy metabolism of the brain in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

Buddhadeb Dawn, Ph.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine, KUMC.

Barry W. Festoff, M.D., FAAN 
Professor; Director, Neurobiology Research Laboratory, VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO. University of Miami 1966. Neurobiology: Mechanisms and treatment of spinal cord injury.

Tomoo Iwakuma, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Cancer Biology, Adjunct faculty of Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Jill Jacobson, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy, University of Miami, 1985. Disorders of growth & puberty, adrenal gland disorders, ambiguous genitalia, hypoglycemia.

Gregory Kopf, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Administration, KUMC.

Mukta Kumar, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Benyi Li, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Urology, Fukui Medical University of Japan, PhD, 1997. Androgen receptor signaling in prostrate cancer.

Joshua Mammen, MD
Assistant Professor, General Surgery, KUMC.

Jules Nazzaro, MD
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery

Warren B. Nothnick, Ph.D., H.C.L.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1993. (Obstetrics and Gynecology). Female reproduction; matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs).

Isaac G. Onyango D.V.M., Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Neurology.

Brian Petroff, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Breast Cancer Prevention Center. Reproductive toxicology and contraception.

Janet Pierce, DSN, ARNP, CCRN
Associate Professor (Nursing). DSN University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1987. Diaphragm fatigue; the effect of dopamine on diaphragm function and the production of reactive oxygen species.

Vidudala Prasad, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, VA Medical Center. M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda, India.

Jeff Radel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Occupational Therapy Ed.), Dalhousie University, 1987. Developmental neuroscience; Neuronal plasticity; Anatomy & function of the visual system.

Cary Savage, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Michael J. Soares, Ph.D.
Director, Institute of Maternal-Fetal Biology; Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Hawaii, 1981. Developmental and molecular endocrinology.

William Z. Suo, MD
Research Associate Professor, Neurology, Mechanisms of aging, particularly aging-related memory disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Russell H. Swerdlow, MD
Professor (Neurology, Molecular and Integrative Physiology). New York University, 1991. The role of mitochondria in aging and neurodegeneration.

R.C. Andrew Symons, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Opthalmology

William E. Truog, MD
Sosland Family Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri; Attending Physician, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri; Attending Physician, Truman Medical Center West, Kansas City, Missouri. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1973. Pulmonary disorders in the newborn, nitric oxide effects in the developing lung. [web site]

Mahesh Visvanathan, Ph.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Darren Wallace, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine). University of Kansas, 1998. Renal Physiology and Polycystic kidney disease.

Steven Warren, Ph.D.
Professor ( Applied Behavioral Science, KU, Lawrence; Director Schiefelbucsh Institute for Life Span Studies). University of Kansas, 1977. Early communication development and prevention of mental retardation.

Carl Weiner, MD, MBA
Professor (Chair, OB/GYN). Drugs in pregnancy, fetal therapy, the effect of chronic hypoxemia on fetal development and hypertension in pregnancy.