Core Investigators
The following list represents the core investigators for the Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV) within the Academic Health Center. The links will take you to their IMV and other University Web sites.
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Name, Department, School
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Research Interests
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Anderson, Dwight, PhD
Professor ,Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry; Microbiology, Medical School
MICAB Website
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Bacteriophage phi29 structure and assembly
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Bohjanen, Paul, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Medical School
MICAB Website
Research Website
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T lymphocyte mRNA stability
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Bresnahan, Wade, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Medical School
MICAB Website
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Molecular mechanisms of human cytomegalovirus replication and pathogenesis
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Cannon, Mark MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
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Cheeran, Maxim, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Medical School
Medical School Website
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Neuropathogenesis of cytomegalovirus
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Chen, Sharon, MD
Instructor, Pediatrics, Medical School
Medical School Website
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Immune response to cytomegalovirus
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Chen, Yan
Research Associate, School of Physics & Astronomy |
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Conklin, Kathleen, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School
GCD Website
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Oncogenesis and retroviruses
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Downs, Levi, MD
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health, Medical School
Medical School Website |
HPV-induced carcinogenesis, molecular therapeutics for cervical cancer and gynecologic oncology clinical trials. |
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Fleischmann, W. Robert, PhD
Professor, Urologic Surgery, Microbiology, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Medical School Website
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Development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for melanoma; development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for prostate cancer
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Gekker, Genya, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Medical School
Medical School Website
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HIV neuropathogenesis
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Geraghty, Robert PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Director
Center for Drug Design
Center for Drug Design Website
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Herpesviruses, RNA viruses
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Goyal, Sagar, PhD
Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine |
Virus Pathogenesis |
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Grimes, Shelley, PhD
Research Associate, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry
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Structural virology
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Haase, Ashley, MD
Regents' Professor and Head, Microbiology, Medical School
MICaB Page
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Viral pathogenesis, HIV
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Hackett, Perry, PhD
Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development Website
Cancer Center Website
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Development of transgenic vectors for vertebrates; developing non-viral vectors for human gene therapy; analysis of gene expression in transgenic animals; analysis of integration sites of vectors in transgenic animals.
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Han, Jin-Young, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrics Website
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Induction of T cell apoptosis
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Harris, Reuben, Phd
Associate Director, Institute for Molecular Virology
Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Medical School
Research Website
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Mechanisms of purposeful mutation relating to innate and adaptive immunity
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Herzberg, Mark
Professor, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry
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Molecular mechanisms of infection; mucosal infection by HIV-1
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Hu, Shuxian, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Medical School
Medical School Website
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HIV neuropathogenesis
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Jardine, Paul, PhD
Assistant Professor, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry
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Structural virology
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Largaespada, David, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School
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Cancer genetics, myeloid leukemia, Neurofibromatosis type 1 (Nf1) gene,
signal transduction, insertional mutagenesis, murine leukemia virus, transposons
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Li, Fang PhD
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Medical School
Pharmacology Website
Research Website
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Structural virology, human viral pathogens, glycoproteins, polymerases
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Li, Qingsheng, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Microbiology, Medical School
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HIV pathogenesis, host gene expression
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Lockhart, Benham, PhD
Professor, Plant Pathology
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Pararetrovirus biology and molecular biology
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Lokensgard, James, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine, Medical School
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Neurovirology
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Mansky, Louis, PhD
Director, Institute for Molecular Virology; Professor, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry, Microbiology, Medical School
MICAB Website
Lab Page
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Cell and molecular biology of HIV and HTLV; Antiviral drug discovery and development; Antiviral drug resistance; HIV genetic variation, evolution and population genetics; Viral quasispecies; Virus assembly; Evolution of emerging viruses
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Matsuo, Hiroshi, PhD
Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Medical School
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Structural virology
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McGregor, Alistair
Instructor, Pediatrics, Medical School
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Herpesviruses
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McIvor, Scott
Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School
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Gene Therapy |
Molitor, Thomas, PhD
Professor, Clinical and Population Sciences, Veterinary Medicine |
Virus neuropathogenesis |
Mueller, Joachim
Associate Professor, School of Physics & Astronom |
Experimental biophysics, two-photon excitation microscopy, fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy |
Murtaugh, Michael, PhD
Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine
Research Website |
Molecular immunology, including the role of cytokine expression in disease pathogenesis and in protective immunity; protein and antibody engineering, molecular pharmacology |
Muthyala, Ramaiyah
Research Associate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy
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Antiviral drug design
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Olszewski, Neil, PhD
Professor, Plant Biology
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Pararetrovirus molecular biology
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Osterholm, Michael, PhD, MPH
Professor, Public Health
Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
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Infectious disease epidemiology, bioterrorism, foodborne diseases, antibiotic resistance, vaccine preventable diseases, internet-based information systems, national policy development
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Pankiewicz, Krysztof, PhD
Professor & Senior Associate Director, Center for Drug Design
Center for Drug Design Website
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Development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for melanoma; development of a whole-cell tumor immunotherapy for prostate cancer
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Patterson, Steve, PhD
Associate Professor & Associate Director, Center for Drug Design
Center for Drug Design Website
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Anti-microbial drugs, cancer therapy, antiviral therapy, cyanide antidotes, synthetic methods
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Peterson, Phillip, MD
Professor, Medicine, Medical School
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HIV neuropathogenesis
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Reilly, Cavan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Public Health
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Bayesian statistics-modeling and computation, spatial statistics, filtering, survey sampling
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Rice, Stephen, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Medical School
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Herpes simplex virus gene expression
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Schacker, Timothy, MD
Associate Professor and the Associate Division Director of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Medical School
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Factors that increase the likelihood and efficiency of HIV transmission and T cell homeostasis in HIV-1 infected persons
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Schiff, Leslie, PhD
Professor, Microbiology, Medical School
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Virus-host interactions, viral entry, translational control in virus-infected cells, viral immune avoidance mechanism
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Schleiss, Mark, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, Medical School
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Cytomegalovirus pathogenesis
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Sheng, Wen, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Medicine, Medical School
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HIV neuropathogenesis
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Skinner, Pamela, PhD
Assistant Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine; Microbiology, Medical School
MICAB Website
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Genomic studies of prion disease and Alzheimer disease, in vivo studies of anti-viral T cell responses to HIV and SIV infections
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Somia, Nikunj, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Medical School
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Development and refinement of retrovirus
vectors as tools for gene therapy and gene discovery
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Southern, Peter, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Medical School
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Human retrovirus transmission and pathogenesis
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Vezina, Heather, Pharm D
Assistant Professor, Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacy; Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Medical School
Pharmacy Website
Medical School Website
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Antiviral pharmacology research
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Vince, Robert, PhD
Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy; Director of the Center for Drug Design, Academic Health Center
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Antiviral drug design
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Voytas, Daniel, PhD
Professor and Director, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
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Wagner, Carston, PhD
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy
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Design and development of therapeutic nucleotide analogs, design and study of chemical inducers of protein oligomerization, mechanistic and structural studies of biocatalysis
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Yamamoto, Masato, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Basic and Translational Research, Surgery
Surgery Website
Cancer Center Website
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GI-cancer translational research; gene therapy of cancer; adenoviral vectors
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Zhang, Wei, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Diag/Biological Sciences, Dentistry; Institute of Technology Characterization Faculity
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