Research Highlights
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Will beta cell breakthroughs cure diabetes in our lifetime?
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Could learning how proteins interact help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder?
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Can Big Data analysis unravel the mysteries of preeclampsia?
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What might the study of heart muscle membranes mean for future therapies?
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How best can we prepare life science students for their careers?
Our labs' Principal Investigators get closer to answering questions like these every day by applying molecular and computational biology approaches, state-of-the-art genome engineering tools such as CRISPR, Big Data analysis, and much more.
These faculty members also provide a rich mentorship experience in their labs for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, preparing trainees to answer the questions of the future. Explore some highlights of our faculty's current projects below.
In 2021, Dr. Cristina Nostro and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yasaman Aghazadeh, in collaboration with Dr. Sara Nunes Vasconcelos' lab, engineered a new method to improve the survival and potency of transplanted pluripotent stem cells. Read the study.
Dr. Brian Cox was awarded a 2022 Peter Joseph Pappas Research Grant from the Preeclampsia Foundation for his project “Subtyping and clustering of preeclampsia, a personalized medicine approach to improve prediction.” Learn more about this research and its potential impact on Black health.
Representing education research at 2023's American Physiology Summit, Drs. Michelle French and Helen Miliotis presented an award-winning abstract entitled “Embedding design thinking, career planning and teamwork into the curriculum better prepares Life Science students for research and alternate science careers.”
In 2020, Dr. Fang Liu published The glucocorticoid receptor–FKBP51 complex contributes to fear conditioning and posttraumatic stress disorder which may lead to breakthroughs in how PTSD is treated.
Dr. Anthony Gramolini was invited to discuss his lab's review, Membrane proteomic profiling of the heart: past, present, and future on the AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology Podcast in 2021. The discussion of his lab's interest in identifying gate-keeping membranes in cardiac muscle cells highlights the importance of basic science to the eventual development of effective treatments.
You’ll find our faculty members' labs in St. George’s Medical Sciences Building, as well as in the many hospital-based research institutes surrounding the campus. There is no better place to collaborate with like-minded scientists, clinicians, engineers, and academics, all focused on improving human health.