Investigators

The following list represents the core investigators for the Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV) within the Academic Health Center. The links will take you to their IMV and other University Web sites.

Name, Department, School	Research Interests
Anderson, Dwight, PhD Professor ,Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry; Microbiology, Medical School MICAB Website	Bacteriophage phi29 structure and assembly
Bohjanen, Paul, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Microbiology, Medical School MICAB Website Research Website	T lymphocyte mRNA stability
Bresnahan, Wade, PhD Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Medical School MICAB Website	Molecular mechanisms of human cytomegalovirus replication and pathogenesis
Cannon, Mark MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Cheeran, Maxim, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor, Medicine, Medical School Medical School Website	Neuropathogenesis of cytomegalovirus
Chen, Sharon, MD Instructor, Pediatrics, Medical School Medical School Website	Immune response to cytomegalovirus
Chen, Yan Research Associate, School of Physics & Astronomy
Conklin, Kathleen, PhD Associate Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School GCD Website	Oncogenesis and retroviruses
Downs, Levi, MD Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health, Medical School Medical School Website	HPV-induced carcinogenesis, molecular therapeutics for cervical cancer and gynecologic oncology clinical trials.
Fleischmann, W. Robert, PhD Professor, Urologic Surgery, Microbiology, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Medical School Website	Development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for melanoma; development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for prostate cancer
Gekker, Genya, MD Assistant Professor, Medicine, Medical School Medical School Website	HIV neuropathogenesis
Goyal, Sagar, PhD Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine	Virus Pathogenesis
Grimes, Shelley, PhD Research Associate, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry	Structural virology
Haase, Ashley, MD Regents' Professor and Head, Microbiology, Medical School MICaB Page	Viral pathogenesis, HIV
Hackett, Perry, PhD Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development Genetics, Cell Biology and Development Website Cancer Center Website	Development of transgenic vectors for vertebrates; developing non-viral vectors for human gene therapy; analysis of gene expression in transgenic animals; analysis of integration sites of vectors in transgenic animals.
Han, Jin-Young, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics Pediatrics Website	Induction of T cell apoptosis
Harris, Reuben, PhD Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Medical School Research Website	Mechanisms of purposeful mutation relating to innate and adaptive immunity
Herzberg, Mark Professor, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry	Molecular mechanisms of infection; mucosal infection by HIV-1
Hu, Shuxian, MD Assistant Professor, Medicine, Medical School Medical School Website	HIV neuropathogenesis
Jardine, Paul, PhD Assistant Professor, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry	Structural virology
Largaespada, David, PhD Associate Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School	Cancer genetics, myeloid leukemia, Neurofibromatosis type 1 (Nf1) gene, signal transduction, insertional mutagenesis, murine leukemia virus, transposons
Li, Fang PhD Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Medical School Pharmacology Website Research Website	Structural virology, human viral pathogens, glycoproteins, polymerases
Li, Qingsheng, PhD Senior Research Associate, Microbiology, Medical School	HIV pathogenesis, host gene expression
Lockhart, Benham, PhD Professor, Plant Pathology	Pararetrovirus biology and molecular biology
Lokensgard, James, PhD Associate Professor, Medicine, Medical School	Neurovirology
Mansky, Louis, PhD Director, Institute for Molecular Virology; Professor, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry, Microbiology, Medical School MICAB Website Lab Page	Cell and molecular biology of HIV and HTLV; Antiviral drug discovery and development; Antiviral drug resistance; HIV genetic variation, evolution and population genetics; Viral quasispecies; Virus assembly; Evolution of emerging viruses
Matsuo, Hiroshi, PhD Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Medical School	Structural virology
McGregor, Alistair Instructor, Pediatrics, Medical School	Herpesviruses
McIvor, Scott Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School	Gene Therapy
Molitor, Thomas, PhD Professor, Clinical and Population Sciences, Veterinary Medicine	Virus neuropathogenesis
Mueller, Joachim Associate Professor, School of Physics & Astronom	Experimental biophysics, two-photon excitation microscopy, fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy
Murtaugh, Michael, PhD Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine Research Website	Molecular immunology, including the role of cytokine expression in disease pathogenesis and in protective immunity; protein and antibody engineering, molecular pharmacology
Muthyala, Ramaiyah Research Associate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy	Antiviral drug design
Olszewski, Neil, PhD Professor, Plant Biology	Pararetrovirus molecular biology
Osterholm, Michael, PhD, MPH Professor, Public Health Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy	Infectious disease epidemiology, bioterrorism, foodborne diseases, antibiotic resistance, vaccine preventable diseases, internet-based information systems, national policy development
Pankiewicz, Krysztof, PhD Professor & Senior Associate Director, Center for Drug Design Center for Drug Design Website	Development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for melanoma; development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for prostate cancer
Patterson, Steve, PhD Associate Professor & Associate Director, Center for Drug Design Center for Drug Design Website	Anti-microbial drugs, cancer therapy, antiviral therapy, cyanide antidotes, synthetic methods
Peterson, Phillip, MD Professor, Medicine, Medical School	HIV neuropathogenesis
Reilly, Cavan, PhD Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Public Health	Bayesian statistics-modeling and computation, spatial statistics, filtering, survey sampling
Rice, Stephen, PhD Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Medical School	Herpes simplex virus gene expression
Schacker, Timothy, MD Associate Professor and the Associate Division Director of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School	Factors that increase the likelihood and efficiency of HIV transmission and T cell homeostasis in HIV-1 infected persons
Schiff, Leslie, PhD Professor, Microbiology, Medical School	Virus-host interactions, viral entry, translational control in virus-infected cells, viral immune avoidance mechanism
Schleiss, Mark, MD Professor, Pediatrics, Medical School	Cytomegalovirus pathogenesis
Sheng, Wen, PhD Senior Research Associate, Medicine, Medical School	HIV neuropathogenesis
Skinner, Pamela, PhD Assistant Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine; Microbiology, Medical School MICAB Website	Genomic studies of prion disease and Alzheimer disease, in vivo studies of anti-viral T cell responses to HIV and SIV infections
Somia, Nikunj, PhD Assistant Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School	Development and refinement of retrovirus vectors as tools for gene therapy and gene discovery
Southern, Peter, PhD Associate Professor, Microbiology, Medical School	Human retrovirus transmission and pathogenesis
Vezina, Heather, Pharm D Assistant Professor, Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacy; Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Medical School Pharmacy Website Medical School Website	Antiviral pharmacology research
Vince, Robert, PhD Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy; Director of the Center for Drug Design, Academic Health Center	Antiviral drug design
Wagner, Carston, PhD Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy	Design and development of therapeutic nucleotide analogs, design and study of chemical inducers of protein oligomerization, mechanistic and structural studies of biocatalysis
Yamamoto, Masato, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Basic and Translational Research, Surgery Surgery Website Cancer Center Website	GI-cancer translational research; gene therapy of cancer; adenoviral vectors

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