Thomas W. Abrams,
Ph.D.  410-706-5837
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Research: Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synaptic changes during learning.
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Sania Amr,
M.D. 410-706-1466
Epidemiology and Preventive
Research: Environmental and occupational exposures and their roles in the development of chronic diseases
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Abdu Azad,
Ph.D. 410-706-3335
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Research: Our long-term goal is to assess the importance of rickettsial genes encoding virulence-associated proteins and their use in immunoprotection against pathogenic rickettsiae.
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Nicholas R. Bachur,
M.D., Ph.D. 410-708-3689
Research: My clinical and research interests continue to center on DNA interactive molecules.
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Caroline Baier-Anderson,
Ph.D. 410-706-8196
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Chemical health risk analysis and exposure assessment.
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Mona Baumgarten,
Ph.D. 410-706-1531
Research: Dr. Baumgarten’s major research interest is in the area of aging.
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Patrik Bavoil,
Ph.D. 410-706-6789
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research: Chlamydia genomics; Molecular pathogenesis of Chlamydia species and chlamydiaphages
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Stephen Bingham,
Ph.D. 410-706-2411 ext. 5301
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Clinical Trials, Study Methodology, Hypertension, Clinical Psychiatry and Alcoholism
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Lindsay W. Black,
Ph.D. 410-706-3510
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Research: Mechanism of viral DNA packaging, and phage display for protein interactions and vaccine development.
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Mimi Blitzer,
Ph.D. 410-706-4065
Department of Pediatrics
Research: Biochemical and metabolic genetic disorders
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Clayton Brown,
Ph.D. 410-706-1058
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Dr. Brown's applied area of interest is psychiatry, especially health services and clinical research for schizophrenia and other seriously mentally ill patients.
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Yen-Pei Chang,
Ph.D. 410-706-6737
Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine
Research: My research currently focuses on identifying susceptibility loci of common, complex diseases and modifier genes of monogenic diseases.
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Hegang Chen,
Ph.D. 410-706-4067
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Experimental Design, Survey Sampling, Generalized Linear Mixed Models and Statistical Methods in Molecular Biology and Genetics
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Shiladitya DasSarma,
410-234-8847
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Research: Archaeal genomics, post-genomics and biotechnology
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Paticia Dischinger,
PhD 410-328-4246
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: In particular, her research emphasis has been on the causes and outcomes of vehicular trauma; motorcycle-related injuries, seatbelt use, occupant injury mechanisms, pedestrian injuries and lower-extremity injuries to vehicle occupants. Other areas of research include: substance abuse and injury; injury surveillance; occupational injuries and traumatic brain injury.
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Samer El-Kamary,
M.B., Ch.B., M.P.H. 410-706-2228
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Hepatitis virus infections, especially Hepatitis C in the United States and in Egypt; International Health and Tropical Medicine
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Greg Elmer,
Ph.D. 410-402-7576
Department of Psychiatry, MPRC
Research: The primary objective of our laboratory is to better understand the behavior neurogenetics of drug abuse and schizophrenia and to understand the neurobiological factors integral to the comorbidity of these psychiatric illnesses.
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Hongbin Fang,
Ph.D. 410-706-4103
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Experimental design and statistical analysis for drug development, statistical methods for radiation biology and oncology, interval censored survival and multivariate survival analysis models.
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Joe Flacco,
PhD 410-706-6041
High flying Ravens' Offense!
Research: I study the tape and throw the ball.
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Renty Franklin,
Ph.D. 410-706-7259
Biomedical Sciences
Research: Hormone regulation of gene expression in the prostate and prostate cancer; zinc induction of apoptosis in prostate cancer cells
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Claire Fraser-Liggett,
Ph.D. 410-706-3879
Institute for Genome Sciences
Research: Metagenomics of human intestinal and oral microbiomes in health and disease
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Jon P. Furuno,
Ph.D. 410-706-0134
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: My research focuses on the study of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria among hospitalized patients and long-term care residents, infection control interventions to reduce transmission and acquisition of these bacteria, and epidemiologic methods to better study infectious diseases.
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Da-Wei Gong,
M.D., Ph.D. 410-706-1672
Department of Medicine
Research: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of obesity and diabetes.
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Ann Gruber-Baldini,
Ph.D. 410-706-2444
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Dr. Gruber-Baldini’s research interests are in gerontology, cognitive functioning and the impact of chronic conditions on functioning.
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Anthony Harris,
M.D., Ph.D. 410-706-0064
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Dr. Harris is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist whose research interests include emerging pathogens, antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, infection control interventions, epidemiologic methods in infectious diseases and medical informatics.
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J. Richard Hebel,
Ph.D. 410-706-3810
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Evaluation of Biomarkers, Proxy Reliability and Validity, Recovery from Hip Fracture and Replacement, Fetal Exposure to Cigarette Smoking, Urinary Catheterization and Infections, Outcomes Associated with Senile Dementia, Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
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M Hochberg,
(410) 706-6474
Medicine
Research: Dr. Hochberg's research focuses on the clinical epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders, particularly osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. He is the Principal Investigator of the Baltimore Clinical Centers of the Osteoarthritis Initiative and the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Baltimore Hip Studies. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Laura Hungerford,
Ph.D. 410-706-2673
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and the Application of Techniques for Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Statistical Analysis and Dynamic Modeling in the Study of Zoonoses and Other Diseases
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M. Samir Jafri,
Ph.D. 410-706-2384
Neurology
Research: 1) Organotypic nigrostriatal cultures to study neurodegeneration and neuroprotection 2) Translational neurosurgical project using novel optical imaging to target stem cell and gene therapy delivery.
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Laundette Jones,
Ph.D. 410-706-7331
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Research: Genetic and Environmental Modifiers of Breast Cancer risk; Environmental Toxicology; Mechanisms of Chemical Carcinogenesis
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Irving Kessler,
M.D., Ph.D. 410-706-7866
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Healthcare technology assessment, cost-effectiveness of health care, telemedicine, health risk assessment, trends in public health education
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Steven Kittner,
M.D. 410-328-6485
Neurology
Research: Stroke genetics
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Wendy Lane,
M.D., M.P.H. 410-706-7865
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Epidemiology of child abuse and neglect
Child abuse prevention
Physician identification and reporting of maltreatment
Racial and ethnic disparities in child abuse identification and reporting
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Patricia Langenberg,
Ph.D. 410-706-3251
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: One of the major research areas is Women's Health. She chairs the Women's Health Research Group, an inter-disciplinary body housed in Epidemiology but with membership across the UMAB campus.
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Zhenqiu Liu,
Ph.D. 410-706-8523
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Statistic Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Data Ming. Include SNP, Mass Spectrometry, Microarray, and DNA sequence data analysis, dynamic pathway modeling and Meta analysis for cancer research
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Jay Magaziner,
Ph.D. 410-706-3553
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Dr. Magaziner pursues research in aging in three interrelated areas: the consequences of hip fracture; health and long-term care; and methods for studying older populations.
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Laurence Magder,
Ph.D. 410-706-3253
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: I am interested in developing relatively simple, easy-to-use, statistical methods that can be useful in biomedical research.
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David Mann,
M.D. 410-706-1329
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Diabetes, Smoking Cessation, Telemedicine, Preventive Medicine
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Dean Mann,
M.D. 410-328-5512
Department of Pathology
Research: Human Immunology, with an emphasis on the genetic control of the immune response as related to disease pathogenesis and treatment
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Frank L. Margolis,
Ph.D. 410-706-8913
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Research: One of the major goals of my laboratory is to identify and characterize the molecular mechanisms responsible for regulating olfactory neuron gene expression, and to learn how they contribute to the formation, organization and function of this critical chemosensory system.
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John C. McLenithan,
Ph.D. 410-706-1629
Departments of Medicine and Physiology
Research: Molecular and cellular basis of diabetes and obesity
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Ram Miller,
M.D. 410-706-2406
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research:
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Shiraz Mishra,
Ph.D. 410-706-8887
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Dr. Mishra’s research interests are in public and international health, specifically in the area of health services.
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Braxton D. Mitchell,
MPH 410-706-0161
Department of Medicine
Research: Genetic epidemiology of common complex diseases.
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Mervyn J. Monteiro,
Ph.D. 410-706-8132
Medical Biotechnology Center & Neurology
Research: Molecular genetics of proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases.
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William F. Morgan,
Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology
Research:
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Steven D. Munger,
Ph.D. 410-706-5851
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Research: Molecular basis of odor and taste transduction; structure/function of odor and taste receptors
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Yi Ning,
Ph.D. 410-706-4063
Department of Pathology: Cytogenetics
Research: Our clinical laboratory offers cytogenetic diagnosis for both constitutional and acquired chromosome abnormalities.
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Denise Orwig,
Ph.D. 410-706-8951
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Dr. Orwig is trained in biobehavioral health and gerontology specializing in research with frail older adults and has additional training in pharmacoepidemiology.
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Yuko Ota,
Ph.D. 410-706-5161
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Research: My current research interests are the search for the origins of immune genes and the manner by which the immune system was shaped over evolutionary time.
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Eli Perencevich ,
M.D. 410-706-0063
Epidemiology
Research: Dr. Perencevich is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist studying emerging pathogens and nosocomial infections.
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Silvia A. Pineiro,
Ph.D. 410-706-3773
Medical and Research Technology
Research: The general research interest in my lab is focused on the broad fields of genomics, functional genomics, taxomony and ecology of a unique predatory group of bacteria, the Bdellovibrio and like-organisms (BALOs),
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Allen R. Place,
Ph.D. 410-243-8828
Center of Marine Biotechnology
Research: Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that permit organisms to adapt to unique diets, environemnts, and interactions (symbiosis), molecular basis of sex determination
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Toni I. Pollin,
Ph.D. 410-706-1630
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition
Research: Genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics of complex diseases, particularly diabetes mellitus and related phenotypes; translation of human genetics research findings to clinical settings
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Charlene Quinn,
Ph.D. 410-706-2752
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Long term care for services for Older Adults, Health services research, Measures of Health Care Quality, and Epidemiology of Aging Populations
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William Randall,
Ph.D. 410-706-7530
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Research: Gene expression, molecular neurobiology of cholinergic proteins, synapse formation, synaptic protein targeting, synaptic protein turnover, cytoskeletal assembly of synaptic proteins, transcriptional control of acetylcholinesterase.
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Feyruz Rassool,
Ph.D. 410-706-5337
Department of Radiation Oncology
Research: Cancer Biology and the role of Genomic Instability, in particular DNA damage and Repair, in Cancer and Leukemia disease progression. Studies involve mouse models of human myeloid malignancies
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Jean-Pierre Raufman,
M.D. 410-328-8728
Medicine
Research: Novel signaling molecules and pathways in the gastrointestinal tract (e.g. muscarinic receptors and ligands in colon cancer).
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Jacques Ravel,
Ph.D. 410-706-5674
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Research: Exploring the human microbiome: ecology and metagenomics, Microbial genome sequence comparative analyses: the making of a genome with a special emphasis on human microbial pathogens
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Mary-Claire Roghmann,
M.D. 410-706-0062
Epidemiology
Research: Molecular epidemiology of S. aureus
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Renee Royak-Schaler,
Ph.D. 410-706-1049
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Cancer Prevention and Control, Mammography Screening and Breast Cancer Biology in African American Women
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Lynn Schriml,
Ph.D. 410-706-6756
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Epidemiology, Bioinformatics, Data mining, Emerging Pathogens, Molecular Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Statistics
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Michelle Shardell,
Ph.D. 410-706-8563
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
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Alan Shuldiner,
M.D. 410-706-1623
Department of Medicine
Research: Genetics of complex disease and traits; diagetes/obesity; cardiovascular disease; osteoporosis; pharmacogenomics
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John Sorkin,
M.D. , PHD 410) 605-7119
Medicine
Research: The changes that occur with aging in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, obesity, and body fat distribution. He is interested in measuring the changes and determining the relation of the changes to the development of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, death, morbidity, and mortality.
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O. Colin Stine,
Ph.D. 410-706-1607
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: The genetics of early onset stroke; The genetics of Vibrio cholerae; The genetics of antibiotic resistant and pathogenic bacteria; Genetic analysis of colonic bacteria and their possible association with colon cancer
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G. Thomas Strickland,
M.D., Ph.D. 410-706-7550
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: 1) Comprehensive studies of Hepatitis C and E in Egypt
2) Lyme disease and other tick-transmitted bacterial zoonoses
3) Interaction of environmental exposures and infectious diseases in Brazil and the Philippines.
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Ming Tan,
Ph.D. 410-328-3516
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Design and Interim Analysis of Clinical Trials, Longitudinal (Hierarchical) Models, Evaluation of Diagnostic Accuracy of Multiple Markers/Tests/Readers, Statistical Methods in Molecular Genetics and Cancer Translational Reseach, Applied Bayesian Methods
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Michael Terrin,
M.D. 410-706-6139
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Clinical Trials; Pulmonary Disease; Cardiovascular Epidemiology; Data Coordinating Centers
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Hervé Tettelin,
Ph.D. 410-706-6764
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Research: Dr. Tettelin’s research focuses on the use of genomics and functional genomics to understand bacterial virulence, study host-pathogen interactions, and identify vaccine candidates and drug targets to cure disease.
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Guoliang Tian,
Ph.D. 410-706-7880
Epidemiology and Preventive
Research: Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials; Longitudinal Data Analysis; Noniterative Monte Carlo Methods; Bayesian Analysis in Medicine; EM Algorithm; Experimental Design
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Alan Tomkinson,
Ph.D. 410-706-2795
Radiation Oncology
Research: DNA replication, DNA repair and genetic recombination
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Kate Tracy,
Ph.D. 410-706-1205
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Barriers to cervical cancer screening in lesbians, female sexual functioning as a quality-of-life issue and sex differences in chronic diseases and conditions.
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David Weiss,
Ph.D. 410-642-2411 ext.5300
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Multi-center, Multi-year Study of Alcoholic Liver Disease
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Owen White,
Ph.D. 410-706-3464
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research:
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P. David Wilson,
Ph.D. 410-706-3464
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Longitudinal Data Analysis: Research in New Methods, Application to Epidemiogy and Other Biomedical Research
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Austin Yang,
Ph.D. 410-328-7588
Anatomy and Neurobiology
Research: The primary interest of my laboratory is to understand the molecular and biochemical events leading to pathological aging and the early development of cancer.
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Min Zhan,
Ph.D. 410-706-3518
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Research: Survival Analysis, Event History Analysis |