Keith Miskimins

  Keith Miskimins, Professor, Obstetrics/Gynecology Research Interests: The Miskimins lab research focus is the protein inhibitor of cell cycle progression that is commonly down-regulated in cancer cells. He is also Principal Investigator of Center of Cancer Biology COBRE, South Dakota.

Jill Weimer

Jill Weimer, Professor, Pediatrics Research Interests: Research in the Weimer Lab is focused on understanding the processes that control the development of the cerebral cortex and how disruption in these processes leads to various neuropediatric diseases. Specifically, the team explores a number of mechanisms involved in neural stem cell proliferation, neuronal polarity, axonal outgrowth, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]