Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Secondary Faculty

• Ahmed, Zubair M., PhD, Professor
  410-706-3799
  zmahmed@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Genetic disorders of Ear and Eye, hearing loss, Usher syndrome, Retinitis pigmentosa, hearing restoration, gene therapy, Otitis media genetics, Inner ear development, Mechanotransduction, Calcium role in hearing and vision, Noise induced hearing loss, Genome editing
• Baskakov, Ilia V., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-4562
  baskakov@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: neurodegenerative diseases, prion diseases, neuroinflammation, reactive astrocytes, reactive microglia, Alzheimer's disease
• Chang, Yen-Pei Christy , PhD, MS, Professor
  (410) 706-6737 (office)
  cchang@medicine.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Molecular and genetic bases of complex disorders such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, regulatory elements (non-protein coding) in the human genome, gene regulation, bioinformatics tools for function prediction, faculty development, and graduate school education.
• Fang, Shengyun , PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-2220
  sfang@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Proteostasis, UBA1 activity enhancers, RNF5 inhibitor and degrader, drug discovery, ubiquitination, ERAD, unfolded protein response, ER-phagy, VEXAS syndrome, spinal muscular atrophy, α-1-antitrypsin deficiency-associated liver disease, obesity-related cancer, aging, and age-related diseases.
• Fiskum, Gary M., PhD, Professor Emeritus
  gfiskum@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: pathophysiology of both ischemic and traumatic brain injury, relationships between injury to the brain and multiple organ failure
• Franklin, Renty B., PhD, Professor
• Hasday, Jeffrey D., MD, Professor
  (410) 328-8141
  jhasday@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: ARDS, ILD, IPF, interstitial lung disease, asthma, heat shock protein, p38 MAP kinase, endothelial, epithelial, cytokine, thermoregulation
• Hornyak, Thomas J., MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor
  667-214-1199
  thornyak@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Melanocyte stem cell differentiation and fate determination as well as melanoma epigenetics
• Hussain, Arif , MD, Professor
  (410) 328-7225
  ahussain@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Prostate Cancer, Genitourinary Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Testicular Cancer
• Kaper, James B., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-7114
  jkaper@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Microbiology, Immunology, Bacterial Vaccines, Enteric Pathogenesis, Bacterial Genetics, Intestinal Colonization
• Lindberg, Iris , PhD, Professor
  410-706-4778
  ilindberg@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, protein chaperones, proteostais, ALS
• Michel, Sarah L.J., PhD, Professor
• Monteiro, Mervyn J., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-8132
  monteiro@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Neurodegenerative diseases, ALS, FTD, Alzheimer's disease, protein misfolding, ubiquilin, proteasome, autophagy
• Padia, Janak , PhD, Associate Professor
• Polster, Brian M., PhD, Professor
  (410) 706-3418
  bpolster@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: mitochondria, mitochondrial fission, bioenergetics, oxygen, respiration, Seahorse, reactive oxygen species, superoxide, apoptosis, cytochrome c, AIF, Bax, Bcl-2, Drp1, calpain, neurons, glutamate excitotoxicity, nitric oxide, astrocytes, microglia, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, traumatic brain injury, neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, idebenone, mdivi-1
• Qian, Feng , Dr. rer. nat., Professor
  410-706-5804
  fqian@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Polycystic kidney disease, polycystin, cyst formation, ciliary trafficking, cis-autoproteolysis, G-protein coupled protein proteolysis site (GPS)
• Riazuddin, Saima , PhD, MPH, MBA, Professor
  410-706-3798
  sriazuddin@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: Hearing loss, vestibular dysfunction, brain disorders, intellectual disability, molecular genetics, cell biology.
• Shen, Jana , PhD, Professor
• Tiwary, Pratyush , PhD, Professor
• Toth, Eric A., PhD, Assistant Professor
  240-314-6516
  etoth@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: therapeutic development, X-ray crystallography, neurodegeneration, DNA repair
• Varma, Shambhu D., PhD, MS, Professor Emeritus
  svarma2384@aol.com
• Ward, Christopher W., PhD, Professor
• Yang, Peixin , PhD, Professor
  Keywords: Diabetic embryopathy, pregestational diabetes, neural tube defects, congenital heart defects, embryonic vasculopathy, exosome, ferroptosis, obesity, placenta, Alzheimer's disease, SARS-CoV-2 infection, DNA/RNA methylation
• Yu, Liqing Justin , MD, PhD, Professor
  410-706-5829
  lyu@som.umaryland.edu
  Keywords: lipid metabolism and transport, nafld, cardiovascular disease