Program Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of cancer stem cell interactions with tumor microenvironment in disease progression
Environmental Medicine
Neuroscience
Research Interest:
Defining the impact of environmental chemicals (e.g., metals and air pollution) on brain development and behavior, with emphasis on attributable risk to neurodevelopmental disorders.
Research Interest:
Understanding the interaction of HIV with glial cells; Developing an improved live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV); Elucidating the host cell response to infection by viral pathogens (with emphasis on SARS-CoV-2 and Adeno-associated virus, AAV)
Research Interest: Program evaluation methods including integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods and on maternal child related health outcomes.
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Antimicrobial drug discovery using pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii: exploiting components of the bacterial RNA metabolism machinery; characterizing prokaryotic ribonucleases; understanding the impact of the host environment on antibiotic resistance and virulence factor expression.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Research Interest: Developing and understanding community-driven solutions to public health problems
Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
OrthopaedicsPharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Role of Mitochondria in regulation of cell fate in normal stem cells and cancer cells
Public Health Sciences
Research Interest: Racial and socioeconomic disparities in health status, the effects of poverty on family function, and health services to underserved populations, particularly those at risk for cancer and heart disease.
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
NeurosciencePsychiatry
Research Interest:
Basic neurophysiology of schizophrenia and autism
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
NeuroscienceResearch Interest: Human neurophysiology in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease, Dyslexia, Autism, Lysosomal Storage disorders, and sports concussions
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Microbiology & ImmunologyEnvironmental Medicine
Medicine
Research Interest:
Defining molecular pathways by which inhaled allergens and particulates activate lung mucosal immunity.
Genomics Research Center (GRC)
Center for Tumor Immunology Research
Microbiology & ImmunologyEnvironmental Medicine
Research Interest: Microbial pathogens and the impact of human microbial flora on human health and disease.
Research Interest:
Mechanisms of aging and the role of DNA repair and genomic instability in the aging process.
Mitochondrial Research and Innovation Group
Biomedical GeneticsPharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Understanding the roles of antioxidants in disease
Causal Inference for Health Policy (CIHP) Lab
Public Health SciencesResearch Interest:
Early origins research, reproductive environmental health, air and drinking water pollution, extreme temperatures, environmental determinants of premature mortality.
Neurology
Medicine
Research Interest: Technology assessment and cost-effectiveness of neurological practices and policies, methods to improve the quality and safety of medical care, and conflicts of interest in research and practice
Neuroscience
Flaum Eye Institute
Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Research Interest:
Neural mechanisms of visual recovery after stroke; optical correlates and molecular substrates of corneal wound healing and nerve regeneration; LIRIC
Rochester Environment and Child Health (REACH) Laboratory
Public Health SciencesPediatrics
Environmental Medicine
Research Interest:
Defining the impact of environmental toxicants on maternal and child health, with a focus on persistent organic pollutants (PCBs and PFAS), metals, and their mixtures, and immune system development and function.
Research Interest: Factors that lead to health disparities among sexual and gender minority populations, specifically disparities in cancer-related health outcomes and psychological distress
Center for Tumor Immunology Research
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Pharmacology & PhysiologyMicrobiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Cancer immunotherapy/Host immune response to influenza infection/ Inflammation biology of sepsis
Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest: Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Signaling and Cancer Cell Metabolism
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Defining the impact of environmental exposures on immune system development and function, with emphasis on how early life exposures shape health and disease later in life.
Research Interest: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
Medicine
Environmental Medicine
Pediatrics
Research Interest:
Genetic and environmental susceptibility to developmental lung injury.
Research Interest: Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics.
Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Research Program
Public Health SciencesResearch Interest:
Smoking cessation in special populations; technology/web assisted risk behavior intervention; and dissemination of effective interventions to physician practices.
Research Interest: Geriatric assessment and management interventions, symptomatic toxicities, tolerability, clinical trial design for older adults with cancer, caregiver research
Medicine
Research Interest: Effect of the Microbiome/Virome on Mucosal and Systemic Inflammation in Health and Disease
Microbiology & Immunology
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Research Interest:
Platelets in vascular injury and inflammation
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest: Immunoregulatory properties of trophoblast cells
Research Interest: Reza's main line of interest includes the application of a social network analysis lens to inform and promote the process of knowledge translation and program implementation. He is especially interested in designing network-informed and network-rewiring interventions, and studying networks as the outcome of the implementation. He has applied network analysis in various contexts including co-authorship, information seeking and influential discussions in health care settings, and partnerships among health organizations.
Research Interest:
Defining neuro-inflammatory processes that contribute to pathology and disease progression in Alzheimer's disease, as well as late CNS effects following radiation exposure.
Wynne Center for Family Research
NeurosciencePsychiatry
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Research Interest:
The mechanisms by which early stress exposures, including prenatal maternal anxiety and caregiving stress, may persistently shape children's behavioral and biological health.
Research Interest:
Mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration within the CNS, primarily Glial Cells and Vascular components of the brain.
Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Research Program
Public Health SciencesResearch Interest:
Behavioral medicine and outcomes management include tobacco use and smoking interventions, obesity prevention and exercise.
Research Interest: Polypharmacy, data science, informatics, implementation science
Research Interest: Improving preventive services and delivery of immunization for urban adolescents
Research Interest:
Specificity and role of CD4 T cells in response to vaccination and infection
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interest:
Molecular determinants of and clinical outcomes related to normal and abnormal development of the adaptive immune system in human infants.
Urology
Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
Microbiology & Immunology
Orthopaedics
Research Interest: Inflammatory bone loss as seen in rheumatoid arthritis, infections, tumor metastasis and wear debris induced osteolysis around prosthetic implants
Research Interest:
Epidemiology of Aging: Physical and mental health in later life, mechanisms of vulnerability and resilience, population health determinants, issues in measurement and estimation, complex systems analysis
Medicine
Research Interest:
Understanding how regulation of RNA Polymerase II activity regulates cellular differentiation, with a focus on erythropoiesis. Delineating epigenetic control of normal erythropoiesis; determining the contribution of disrupted epigenetic regulation to inherited anemias.
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Interest: Systems approach utilizing bioinformatics, and dynamic modeling tools to study immune response to infections and vaccination.
Biostatistics & Computational Biology
Research Interest:
Environmental health applications, models for multiple outcomes, multiple exposure models, measurement error, Bayesian inference.
Program for Advanced Immune Bioimaging
Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Interest:
Immune responses to respiratory viruses and experimental vaccines
Research Interest: The decision behavior of health care providers and patients, the consequent health outcomes, and the influence of social and organizational systems on such behavior and outcomes.
Research Interest: Characterizing the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of approved and investigational drugs and identifying influential sources of variability in drug behavior
Public Health Sciences
Environmental Medicine
Research Interest:
Environmental and nutritional influences on cognitive and neurodevelopmental outcomes.