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Primary Faculty |
Division |
Areas of interest |
| Joe C. Christian, M.D., Ph.D. |
Hereditary Genomics |
Quantitative genetics of aging; alcoholism; cardiovascular disease risk factors; twin studies; clinical genetics |
| P. Michael Conneally, Ph.D. | Hereditary Genomics | Population genetics; gene mapping; genetic heterogeneity; genetic studies of Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases; gene mapping of complex diseases. |
| Kenneth Cornetta, M.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Experimental hematopoiesis; chronic myeloid leukemia; use of retroviral gene transfer (gene therapy) in hematologic malignancies |
| Kimberly Quaid de Cordon, Ph.D. | Hereditary Genomics | Psychosocial assessment of genetic technology; presymptomatic testing for genetic disorders |
| Stephen Dlouhy, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Molecular and biochemical genetics; inherited human neurologic disease; DNA and cell banking; mouse model systems; X-chromosome proteolipid protein gene |
| Tatiana Foroud, Ph.D. | Hereditary Genomics | Population genetics; complex disease gene mapping |
| David P. Gilley, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Studies on telomere maintenance; telomere protein composition and phosphorylation; telomerase regulation; telomere dysfunction in breast cancer |
| Christopher Griffith, M.D. | Clinical and Biochemical Genetics | Birth defects, inborn errors of metabolism, and mitochondrial diseases |
| Brenda Grimes, Ph.D. | Cytogenetics | Mechanisms of human chromosome segregation and development of human artificial chromosome-based gene transfer vectors |
| Bryan Hainline, M.D., Ph.D. | Clinical and Biochemical Genetics | Molecular genetics; inherited disorders of mitochondrial metabolism and biogenesis; molecular biology of fatty acid metabolism; trace metal and cofactor metabolism; treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome |
| Brittney-Shea Herbert, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Molecular genetics of breast cancer; telomeres/telomerase; senescence; cellular immortalization; novel breast cancer therapies including telomerase inhibitors; chemoprevention |
| Jeesun Jung, Ph.D. | Hereditary Genomics | Developing statistical methodologies for finding susceptibility genes of human complex disease traits |
| Daniel L. Koller, Ph.D. | Hereditary Genomics | Complex disease gene mapping; genetics of osteoporosis; linkage and linkage disequilibrium analysis methods |
| Nuria Morral, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Diabetes; molecular alterations induced by fatty acids in the liver; gene targets and therapeutic treatments; recombinant adenoviral vectors; transgenic animal models |
| Terry E. Reed, Ph.D. | Hereditary Genomics | Dermatoglyphics; twin studies; epidemiology |
| Lilith Reeves, M.S. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Translational Technology and Biorepository Services |
| Elliot D. Rosen, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Role of coagulation genes in hemostasis and other biological processes; use of genetically engineered mice to study physiologic roles of coagulation genes in vivo |
| Roger Slee, Ph.D. | Cytogenetics | |
| Mary Stuy, M.D. | Clinical and Biochemical Genetics | |
| Hiromi Tanaka, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Understanding molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging and carcinogenesis |
| Virginia C. Thurston, Ph.D. | Cytogenetics |
Molecular cytogenetics; clinical cytogenetics; chromosome structure; undergraduate medical education; graduate genetics education; genetics of germ cell tumors; genetics of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. |
| Wilfredo Torres-Martinez, M.D. | Clinical Genetics | Clinical genetics; dysmorphology; prenatal diagnosis; teratology |
| Gail H. Vance, M.D. | Cytogenetics | Molecular cytogenetics of germ cell tumors and thymomas; clinical cytogenetics; clinical genetics and dysmorphology; familial cancer syndromes; risk, studies; and database |
| David D. Weaver, M.D. | Clinical Genetics | Clinical genetics; dysmorphology; syndromology; birth defects; inherited disorders; prenatal diagnosis; embryology; teratology |
| Kenneth E. White, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Molecular genetics of skeletal disorders; tumor induced osteomalacia; fibroblast growth factor-23; transgenic models; bioinformatics |
| Scott Witting, Ph.D | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | |
| Xin Zhang, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Gene Therapy | Genetic mechanism of eye development |
| Qing Zhang, Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics | Molecular diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders and hematological malignancies |
| Genetic Counselors | Department | Areas of interest |
| Paula Delk, M.S. | Clinical Genetics | Director, Genetic Counseling Program;Craniofacial and skeletal dysplasia syndromes |
| Jennifer Dickerson, M.S. | Clinical Genetics | Neurology and Metabolism |
| Cindy Hunter, M.S. | Clinical Genetics | Cancer genetic counseling |
| Stephanie Gurnon, M.S. | Clinical Genetics | Metabolism |
| Amanda Miller, M.S. | Clinical Genetics | Pediatric and prenatal genetic counseling, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders |
| Susan S. Romie, M.S. | Clinical Genetics | Genetics education; adult genetic counseling |
| Abby Stevens, M.S. | Clinical Genetics | Genetics education, dysmorphology, teratology, skeletal dysplasias associated with dwarfism |
| Secondary Faculty | Department | Areas of interest |
| Gurkirat Baath, Ph.D. | Evansville, Ctr. | |
| Patricia Bader | Fort Wayne Ctr. | |
| Teresa Beam | Fort Wayne Ctr. | |
| Glenn J. Bingle, M.D., Ph.D., FACP | Community Health Network | |
| Jeffrey Boldt | Community Health Network | |
| Angelo Cardoso, M.D., Ph.D | Hematolgy / Oncology | |
| Nadia Carlesso, M.D., Ph.D | Pediatrics | |
| Rebecca Chan | Pediatrics | Activating PTPN11 mutations in myeloid leukemias and Noonan syndrome. |
| Yan Chen | Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China | Apply tools of molecular biology, cell biology, and animal models to understand the molecular mechanisms, signal transduction, gene regulation and functional roles in human diseases in the areas of type 2 diabetes, cancer and embryonic development. |
| Simon Conway | Pediatrics | Molecular and cellular mechanisms that cause congenital heart defects. |
| Shree Dhawale | Fort Wayne Ctr. | |
| Mary Dinauer |
Pediatrics
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Molecular genetics; inherited disorders of phagocytes; molecular biology of phagocyte oxidant production; gene transfer in hematopoietic stem cells; Rho family GTPases |
| John Duguid | Neurology | Neurology |
| Michael Econs | Medicine | Genetic aspects of metabolic bone disease |
| Howard Edenberg | Biochemistry | Genomics and bioinformatics; regulation of gene expression; genetics of complex diseases; molecular biology of alcohol metabolism and alcoholism |
| Luis Escobar | St. V. | Clinical genetics |
| Sherif Farag, Ph.D., M.B.B.S. | Hematology / Oncology | |
| Anthony Firulli | Pediatrics | |
| David Flockhart | Pharmacology | Pharmacogenetics |
| Wayne Forrester, Ph.D. | Bloomington Ctr. | |
| Bernardino Ghetti | Pathology | Degenerative disease of the nervous system in humans and animals; Alzheimer's disease; tauopathies, prion diseases, neurologic mutant mice |
| Alan Golichowski | OB/GYN | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| James K. Hartsfield Jr., D.M.D., Ph.D | University of Kentucky College of Dentistry |
Clinical genetics; dysmorphology; the interaction of genetic and environmental factors that influence nonsyndromic craniofacial growth and development and the response to orthodontic treatment |
| Dirk Herman Hondmann, Ph.D. | Evansville Ctr. | |
| Ruben Kapur | Pediatrics | Molecular mechanisms of adhesion/migration and growth control in normal and leukemic stem/progenitor cells, mast cells and erythroid cells |
| Robert Karn | Butler University | |
| Thomas Kaufman | IUB-Biology | |
| Chenzhong Kuang, M.D., Ph.D. | Evansville Ctr. | |
| Debomoy Lahiri | Psychiatry | Molecular neurobiology, genetics, and biochemistry; cellular and molecular biological studies of Alzheimer's disease; gene regulation and expression of ApoE, beta-amyloid precursor protein, and beta-secretase; biochemical and genetic studies of bipolar affective disorder |
| Michael Litt | Muncie Ctr | |
| Sheila Little | Lilly | Neurodegenerative disorders; Alzheimer's disease; bioinformatics |
| Yunlong Liu | Division of Biostatistics, Department of Medicine | Using computational approach to study regulatory mechanisms of gene expression from different levels, including transcriptional regulation, post-transcriptional regulation, and epigenetic regulation. |
| Linda H. Malkas, Ph.D. | Hematology/Oncology | |
| Anna Malkova | Biology | |
| Marc Mendonca | Radiation Oncology | Tumor suppression gene deletion; genomic instability; localization and cloning of a new HeLa/cervical cancer tumor suppressor gene; high energy charged particle radiobiology; in vivo radiosensitization and noninvasive imaging of ovarian tumors |
| Eric Meslin | Medicine | Bioethics, health policy; research ethics |
| Sean Mooney, Ph.D. | Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, CA | Bioinformatics approaches to modeling the molecular effects of genomic variation |
| Jill Murrell | Pathology | Early onset dementia with tau pathology |
| John Nurnberger | Psychiatry | Psychiatric genetics; affective disorders; addictive disorders; genetics of complex disease |
| Lillie-Mae Padilla | Retired, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine | Prenatal diagnosis |
| R. Mark Payne | Pediatrics |
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| David Prentice | Terre Haute Ctr. | |
| Richard Rose | Retired, IUB | Human behavioral genetics; longitudinal twin studies; biobehavioral markers in alcoholism |
| Andrew Saykin, Psy.D | Radiology | |
| Molly Duman Scheel, Ph.D. | South Bend Ctr. | |
| William Schneider | History | History of human genetics and eugenics; social history of science |
| David Severson, Ph.D. | South Bend Ctr. | |
| Weinian Shou | Pediatrics | |
| Craig Stewart | Information Technology, Bloomington | |
| James Sumners | St. Vincent Hospital | |
| Frederick Unverzagt | Psychiatry | |
| Laurence E. Walsh, M.D. | Neurology | Neurogenetics; pediatric neurology |
| Ronald Wek | Biochemistry | Cellular mechanisms for coping with environmental stresses. Translational control by eIF2 kinases and their role in disease treatment and prevention. |
| Krishna Yelavarthi | Northwest Ctr |
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| Peter Young | Retired OBGYN | Biochemistry of steroid hormones |
| Janice Zunich | Northwest Ctr. |




