Integrative Biology and Physiology (IBP)

Emilyn Alejandro, PhD
Developmental origins of insulin-producing beta-cell dysfunction

Melena Bellin, MD
Understanding & improving outcomes after islet transplantation
Advising Statement

Bryce Binstadt, MD, PhD
MSTP Associate Director
Autoimmunity, innate Immunity
Advising Statement
Research video

Lisa Chow, MD
Effects of exercise and fitness on insulin resistance and diabetes

Peter Crawford, MD, PhD
Ketone body metabolism in obesity and cardiovascular disease
Advising Statement
Research video

Samuel Dudley, MD, PhD
Diastolic heart failure, sudden cardiac death

Peter Kang, MD
Genetics of muscular dystrophy and mechanisms of rare muscle diseases
Advising Statement
Research video

Catherine Kotz, PhD
Obesity research

Walter Low, PhD
Translational neuroscience
Advising Statement

Doug Mashek, PhD
Lipid metabolism
Advising Statement
Research video

Joe Metzger, PhD
Systems biology & cardiovascular function
Research video

Laura Niedernhofer, MD, PhD
Impact of DNA damage on cell function & organism health
Research video

John Osborn, PhD
Role of the CNS in regulation of arterial pressure & pathogenesis of hypertension
Advising Statement

Christina Pacak, PhD
Mitochondrial dysfunction
Advising Statement

Rita Perlingeiro, PhD
Molecular mechanisms controlling lineage-specific differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
Advising Statement

Xavier Revelo, PhD
Role of the immune system and inflammation in the pathophysiology of cardio-metabolic diseases
Advising Statement

Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia, PhD
Developmental control of genome architecture and function

Hai-Bin Ruan, PhD
Metabolic processes in health and disease
Advising Statement

Elizabeth Seaquist, MD
Impact of diabetes on cerebral structure and function
Advising Statement

Clifford Steer, MD
Basic and translational applications to human disease

David Thomas, PhD
Molecular dynamics in muscle

Jop van Berlo, MD, PhD
Cardiac remodeling and regeneration
Research video

Christine Wendt, MD
Advanced lung diseases

Jesse Williams, PhD
Myeloid cells in the pathogenesis of metabolic & cardiovascular diseases
Advising Statement