Molecular Medicine Graduate Program
Mentors in Molecular Basis of Disease
Cardiovascular Disease

Adam  N.  Goldfarb,  M.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:
Hematopathology and Understanding the Molecular Basis of Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis
Victor  E.  Laubach,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Surgery
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Lung Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Compensatory Lung Growth
Coleen  A.  McNamara,  M.D.    [more information]
Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Interests:
Atherosclerosis, Obesity, Diabetes
Gary  K.  Owens,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Research Interests:
Molecular Control of Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation
Edward  Perez-Reyes,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:
Molecular Pharmacology of Voltage-gated Calcium Channels
Kodi  S.  Ravichandran,  B.V.Sc., Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Intracellular signaling in lymphocytes and phagocytes
Michele  Sale,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Interests:
Genetics of complex disease
Avril  V.  Somlyo,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Research Interests:
Signaling pathways that regulate contractility in smooth muscle tissues and migrating cells in normal and disease states such an coronary artery disease, asthma and hypertension. Structure function studies of the intercalated disk in the heart.