Andrew Mayer

ANDREW MAYER, PHD Director, 3T Core, Vice President of Interdisciplinary Science. Professor of Translational Neuroscience The Mind Research Network, Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of New Mexico Health Science Center Dr. Mayer’s research primarily focuses on using multimodal neuroimaging and other biomarkers to systematically examine the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury in […]

Matthew Campen

Matthew Campen, PhD, MSPH, Director, New Mexico Center for Metals in Biology and Medicine, Regents’ Professor, Professor, Pharmaceutical Science Biography Campen received a BS in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech, then his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then did a postdoctoral fellowship in pulmonary physiology […]

Claude Shuttleworth

Claude Shuttleworth, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Thematic Scientific FocusDevelopment and testing of interventions for survivors of acquired brain injuries Research Projects Functional recovery from acute brain injury via human neural stem cell transplantation Brain stimulation in animal models of recovery from acute brain injury Predicting recovery of cognitive control […]

Vojo Deretic

Vojo Deretic, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, MGM Department Chair, and AIM Center Director SOM – Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Principal Investigator: Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism (AIM) in Disease Center COBRE, New Mexico. Dr. Deretic is the departmental chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He […]

Andrew Godwin

Andrew Godwin, Ph.D., Endowed Professor, Division Director, Genomic Diagnostics and founding Director of Molecular Oncology, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Deputy Director of the KU Cancer Center, Founding Director of the Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine Andrew Godwin, Ph.D. is the Chancellors’ Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences endowed Professor and Division Director of Genomic […]

Juergen Richt

Juergen Richt, Regents Distinguished Professor & KBA Eminent Scholar, Director, Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD), Director NIH COBRE Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, KANSAS. Research During my 25+ year scientific career, I have studied pathogen-host interactions in various infectious disease models including Avian and Swine Influenza viruses (AIV, […]

Kimberly Kirkpatrick

Kimberly Kirkpatrick, Director, Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP) Research Interests I received my Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Iowa in 1995 under the supervision of Professor Edward A. Wasserman. My dissertation examined the role of spatial and feature-based information in pigeon visual perception. I then moved to Brown University […]

Susan Lunte

Susan Lunte, Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Director, Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry. Principal Investigator & Director, NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways, Kansas. ResearchResearch interests of the Lunte group include: (1) microanalytical methods for the investigation of the transport and metabolism of peptides across the blood-brain […]

Scott Hefty

P. Scott Hefty, Professor, MB Undergraduate Studies Director; Principal Investigator of Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease, Kansas. Hefty Lab: Chlamydia (klah-MID-e-a) are obligate intracellular bacteria that are propagated and maintained through a phylum defining bi-phasic developmental cycle. The bacteria are transmitted between cells and hosts as small, metabolically inert, Elementary Bodies (EB). After directing entry […]

David Pearce

David Pearce, Professor, Pediatrics. Principal Investigator Center of Pediatric Research COBRE, South Dakota. Research Interests: Research in the Pearce Lab is focused on understanding the molecular basis of several inherited pediatric neurodegenerative diseases including the infantile, late infantile, and juvenile-onset forms of Batten disease. Dr. Pearce and his team use mouse and miniature pig models […]