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Principal Faculty

	Hubert Amrein, PhD Professor Sensory perception of external chemical world; Molecular/neural basis of sugar and amino acid perception
	Vytas Bankaitis, PhD Professor and Wehner-Welch Foundation Chair in Chemistry Cellular functions and novel lipid-mediated signal transduction pathways
	Kayla Bayless, PhD Associate Professor How human endothelial cells, which line interior surface of blood vessels, invade into 3D matrices
	Sarah Bondos, PhD Associate Professor Tissue-specific regulation of protein function; Functionalizable protein-based materials
	Allison C. Rice-Ficht, PhD Regent Professor Senior Associate Dean for Research, Medicine Director of the Center for Microencapsulation and Drug Delivery Using biomaterials for controlled release of live and subunit vaccines
	Carl Gregory, PhD Associate Professor, Institute of Regenerative Medicine Biology of mesenchymal stem cells and their relation to bone healing
	Jason Karpac, PhD Associate Professor Origins of adaptive signaling networks that shape metabolic flexibility and aging
	Ryang-Hwa Lee, PhD Associate Professor, Institute of Regenerative Medicine Cellular and molecular mechanisms of therapeutic effects of mesenchymal stem cells
	Fei Liu, PhD Associate Professor, Institute of Regenerative Medicine Mesenchymal stem cells' roles in growth and metastasis of cancer; Application of MSCs for cancer treatment
	Steve Maxwell, PhD Associate Professor Cancer; Oncogenes; Tumor suppressor; Genes programmed cell death (apoptosis); Chemoresistance; and Angiogenesis
	Siegfried Musser, PhD Professor Protein Targeting and Translocation into Membrane-bound and Membrane-less Compartments
	Ashok K. Shetty, PhD Professor, Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine Enhancing brain function after injury, disease or aging
	Irtisha Singh, PhD Assistant Professor Computational Biology, Genomics, Epigenetics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics
	Raquel Sitcheran, PhD Associate Professor NF-B (nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells) proteins role in regulating cancer cell behavior
	David Threadgill, PhD Professor, The Tom and Jean McMullin Chair of Genetics, Cancer genetics; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Environmental response genetics; and Systems genetics resources
	Gregg B. Wells, MD, PhD Associate Professor Role of protein structure in diseases
	Robin Fuchs-Young, PhD Professor Institute for Biosciences and Technology Basic mechanisms of breast carcinogenesis

Joint Faculty Appointments

	Angela Arenas-Gamboa, DVM, PhD, DACVP Associate Professor Vaccine development against select agents
	Scott Dindot, PhD Associate Professor Epigenetic and genetic mechanisms of phenotypic variation and disease
	L. Rene Garcia, PhD Professor Chemo/mechano-sensory and motor outputs changes under various physiological conditions
	Wenshe Liu, PhD Professor Understanding of the epigenetic chromatin regulation and the development of therapeutics that target chromatin epigenetics
	Josh Wand, PhD Professor

Research Faculty

	Tetsuya Miyamoto, PhD Research Assistant Professor Neuroscience
	Deborah Threadgill, PhD Research Assistant Professor
	Zhigang Xie, PhD Research Associate Professor Molecular/cellular mechanisms regulating neural stem cell homeostasis in development and cancer

Instructional Track Faculty

Kamlesh K Yadav, MTech, PhD

Instructional Associate Professor

Emeritus Faculty

Arthur E. Johnson, PhD

Regents Professor Emeritus

Geoffrey Kapler, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Replication and transmission of eukaryotic chromosomes

C. Nick Pace, PhD

Distinguished Professor
Regents Professor
McMullin Professor of Genetics
Protein solubility, stability, and folding

Darwin J. Prockop, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Director of Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Mesenchymal stem cells' therapeutic benefits for brain injury, epilepsy, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

J. Martin Scholtz, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Executive Associate Vice President for Research
Protein folding and misfolding using biophysical techniques

Research Staff

Abbey, Colette
abbey@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Associate
4403C MREB
979.436.0761

Ahn, Ji-Eun
ahn@medicine.tamu.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
4403C MREB
979.436.0802

Attaluri, Sahithi, MPharm
attaluri@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Assistant
243 Reynolds Medical Bldg.

Bing, Shuai, MD
shuai@medicine.tamu.edu
Senior Research Associate
240 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.9656

Cuomo, Danila
cuomo@medicine.tamu.edu
Assistant Research Scientist
428 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0852

Dave, Sandeep, PhD
dave@medicine.tamu.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
448 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0861

Fujii, Shinsuke, PhD
fujii@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Scientist
4350 MREB
979.436.0798

Gonzalez, Alejandra
alejandragonzalez@tamu.edu
Research Associate
4353C MREB 2

Grabon, Aby
abygrabon@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Research Associate
116 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0756

Kodali, Maheedhar, PhD
kodali@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Scientist
240 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.9657

Lee, Dong, PhD
dwlee@medicine.tamu.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
4353F MREB
979.436.0748

Xiaotong Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
4353D MREB 2
979.436.0766

Madhu, Leelavathi Narayana, PhD
madhu@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Scientist
240 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.9660

McDermott, Mark, PhD
mcdermott@medicine.tamu.edu
Assistant Research Scientist
116 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0756

Miyamoto, Chika
cmiyamoto@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Associate
4353C MREB
979.436.0802

Mlih, Mohammed, PhD
mlih@medicine.tamu.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
4353D MREB
979.436.0766

Person, Alexandra
aperson@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Associate
204 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0779

Pflug, Kathryn (Casey)
pflug@tamu.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
4353D MREB 2
979.436.0748

Rao, Xiaolan, BA
rao@medicine.tamu.edu
Research Assistant
224 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.9656

Rashmi, Richa
Richa.rashmi.1202@tamu.edu
Research Associate
4353C MREB 2
979.436.9293

Waghu, Faiza Mohammed Hanif
faiza07@tamu.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
4353C MREB 2
979.436.9293

Zhao, Qingguo, PhD
qzhao@tamu.edu
Assistant Research Scientist
242A Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436-0766

Graduate Research Assistants

Arabiotorre Duran, Angela
arabiotorreduran@medicine.tamu.edu
Graduate Assistant-Research
116 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0756

Haskell, Andrew
haskell@tamu.edu
Graduate Assistant-Research
426 Reynolds Bldg.
979.436.9652

Salvador, Anna
annacsalvadr@tamu.edu
Graduate Assistant-Research
428 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0852

Sheida Hedjazi
Sheida.hedjazi@tamu.edu
Graduate Assistant-Research
4353C MREB 2

Salvador, Anna
annacsalvadr@tamu.edu
Graduate Assistant-Research
428 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0852

Staff

Perkkio, Crystal
cperkkio@tamu.edu
Senior Administrative Coordinator
4209 Medical Research Education Building II
979.436.0856

Eubanks-Garcia, Lisa
leubanks@tamu.edu
Business Administrator I
4209 Medical Research Education Building II
979.436.0855

Garcia, Cynthia
cynthiag@tamu.edu
Business Administrator I
228 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.0509

Griffin, Amy
agriffin@tamu.edu
Business Coordinator I
4209 Medical Research Education Building II
979.436.0854

Carson Barreiro
Carson_b@tamu.edu
Student Worker
228 Reynolds Medical Bldg.
979.436.9682