In this section, you will find all of the NAIPI members listed. You can search for members by name or find them associated with the funded program (INBRE/COBRE/CTR)
Jose Antonio Lasalde Dominicci
Dr. Jose Antonio Lasalde Dominicci is the Program Director of the COBRE Center for Neuroplasticity at the University of Puerto Rico and a Professor of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. [...]
Sally Lynn Hodder
Sally Lynn Hodder is a seasoned physician with extensive experience administering large scientific programs and serving as Principal Investigator for several important NIH-funded U awards. From 2003-2005, I served as Vice President of Virology Medical [...]
Anne Courtney Devries
Dr. Anne Courtney Devries is working as Principal Investigator of West Virginia University Stroke COBRE, West Virginia Her lab has been at the forefront of characterizing the effects of social isolation on health outcomes ranging [...]
Paul Lockman
Dr. Paul Lockman earned his B.S. in Nursing from West Texas A&M University, after which he practiced in intensive care, clinical toxicology, and emergency medicine, before earning his Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Sciences) at Texas Tech University [...]
Uma Sundaram
Uma Sundaram, MD, is the Vice Dean of Research & Graduate Education. Dr. Sundaram is a gastroenterologist specializing in the care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and hepatobiliary diseases and in therapeutic biliary endoscopy. [...]
Gary Rankin
Gary Rankin was Chair of the Department of Pharmacology from 1986-2005, and when my department was merged with the Department of Physiology, He was made Chair of the combined department, a position I still hold. [...]
Lisa Cassis
Dr. Lisa Cassis has served as the University of Kentucky's Vice President for Research since June 2015. As Vice-President for Research, Dr. Lisa Cassis leads the university’s research enterprise and oversees research proposal development, grants [...]
Steven Jones
Steven Jones, Ph.D., FAHA, Professor of Medicine, University Scholar, Director, Diabetes and Obesity Center Research Interests Understanding the mechanisms of cardiac muscle damage during a heart attack and developing novel therapeutics to preserve the heart [...]
Jon Scott Thorson
Jon Scott Thorson, Ph.D., Professor, Associate Dean of Research. Professor Thorson joined the UK College of Pharmacy in the Fall of 2011 as the first director of the new UK Center for Pharmaceutical Research and [...]
Richard Lamont
Richard Lamont, Ph.D. Research Interests: The oral cavity is a complex ecosystem that is home to a diverse assemblage of bacteria with a spectrum of pathogenic potentials. On tooth surfaces, these organisms assemble into a [...]
Jun Yan
Jun Yan, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Surgery, Microbiology, and Immunology, and Pharmacology and Toxicology, Endowed Chair in Translational Research, Brown Cancer Center, Director, Division of Immunotherapy, UofL School of Medicine. Dr. Yan’s current major research [...]
Daret St. Clair
Daret St. Clair Professor, Interim Chair, James Graham Brown Foundation Endowed Chair, Vice-Chair for Research, Associate Director for Basic Science, Markey Cancer Center. The primary research focus of this laboratory is in the area of [...]
Craig McClain
Dr. Craig McClain, MD is a Gastroenterology Specialist in Louisville, KY, and has over 49 years of experience in the medical field. Dr. McClain has more experience with Liver Disease than other specialists in his [...]
Martha Bickford
Martha Bickford, Ph.D. The Bickford lab studies synaptic circuits involved in transmitting visual signals and initiating appropriate motor responses to visual stimuli. They are particularly interested in pathways that involve the pulvinar nucleus (a large [...]
Joey Granger
Dr. Joey Granger is the Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor, professor of physiology, director of the Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center, and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. [...]
Jane Reckelhoff
Dr. Jane Reckelhoff is currently professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and director of the Women’s Health Research Center at UMMC. She received a BS degree in chemistry from the [...]
Stephen Pruett
Dr. Stephen Pruett Principal Investigator of the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Pathogen host Interactions, Mississippi. Dr. Stephen Pruett's research has been supported for 30 years by nationally competitive grants, mostly from the National [...]
Soumyajit Majumdar
Dr. Soumyajit Majumdar, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs & Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery. Dr. Majumdar’s research interests include the design of drug delivery strategies for enhancing ocular bioavailability of poorly permeating [...]
Joshua Sharp
Joshua Sharp, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Research Assistant Professor in RIPS. Dr. Sharp’s group is active in the development and application of new mass spectrometry-based technologies for studying the [...]
Mohamed Omar Elasri
Dr. Mohamed Omar Elasri has been an active researcher in the area of infectious diseases since his postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (1999), followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University [...]
John Hall
John Hall, Ph.D. Areas of expertise General: Cardiovascular, renal and endocrine physiology Specific: Mechanisms of hypertension and target organ injury; obesity and insulin resistance; the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; modeling and computer simulation of the cardiovascular-renal systems Research methods [...]
Judith Lynne Weber
Dr. Judith Lynne, National Committee Member NAIPI. Weber is director of the NIH-funded Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI), and a professor of Pediatrics in the Colleges of Medicine [...]
Marjan Boerma
Marjan Boerma Ph.D. Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in radiation biology from Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2004 and followed this with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical [...]
Alan Tackett
Alan Tackett, PH.D.Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Deputy Director of Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Scharlau Family Endowed Chair for Cancer Research, Ph.D. The University of Arkansas for Medical Science. In recent years, new [...]
Mark Smeltzer
Dr. Mark Smeltzer completed post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. John J. Iandolo. It was in Dr. Iandolo’s lab that he was first introduced to Staphylococcus aureus as a bacterial pathogen. His goal during [...]