Faculty Labs

Successful biomedical research demands collaboration among scientists with varying specialties. Faculty throughout IU School of Medicine's 25 academic departments work together to advance knowledge and treatment for patients in the world's most critical areas of medicine.
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6962-Saykin, Andrew
Saykin Lab
The Saykin Lab (Indianapolis) focuses on precision medicine for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Principal Investigator Andrew J. Saykin, PsyD

Phone (317) 963-7501

44486-Schlecht, Stephen
Schlecht Lab
The Schlecht Lab (Indianapolis) studies the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, including its development, function and response to loading.

Principal Investigator Stephen Schlecht, PhD

Phone (317) 278-3432

12491-Schmidt, Nathan
Schmidt Lab
The laboratory of Nathan W. Schmidt, PhD, (Indianapolis) investigates the host immune response to Plasmodium and how gut microbiota impact the severity of malaria. This research aims to develop approaches to prevent severe malaria-related fatalities.

Principal Investigator Nathan W. Schmidt, PhD

Phone (317) 278-5701

15263-Sheets, Patrick
Sheets Lab
The Sheets Laboratory (Indianapolis) aims to dissect the functional organization of supraspinal circuits involved in pain modulation and to identify neural mechanisms through which various pain disorders drive maladaptive changes to these circuits thereby contributing to pain chronicity and comorbid affective disease.

Principal Investigator Patrick L. Sheets, PhD

Phone (317) 278-6383

61423-Silveyra, Patricia
Silveyra Lab
The lab of Patricia Silveyra, PhD, (Bloomington) studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying sex differences in lung inflammation and lung disease triggered by various environmental exposures.

Principal Investigator Patricia Silveyra, PhD

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43265-Spaeth, Jason
Spaeth Lab
The Spaeth Lab (Indianapolis) focuses on the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and islet cell function. The lab investigates how transcriptional coregulators modulate activities of islet enriched transcription factors that are critical for pancreas formation, islet cell development and function.

Principal Investigator Jason M. Spaeth, PhD

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6484-Spinola, Stanley
Spinola Lab
The Spinola Laboratory (Indianapolis) focuses on the bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi, which causes cutaneous ulcers in children in the tropics and the genital ulcer disease chancroid, which facilitates the transmission of HIV-1.

Principal Investigator Stanley M. Spinola, MD

Phone (317) 274-0506

13502-Sullivan, William
Sullivan Lab
The Sullivan Laboratory (Indianapolis) studies cellular signaling and the regulation of gene expression in a protozoan parasites Plasmodium (malaria) and Toxoplasma (toxoplasmosis).

Principal Investigator William J. Sullivan, PhD

Phone 317-274-1573

60715-Tailor, Jignesh
Tailor Lab
The Tailor Laboratory (Indianapolis) studies the role of cancer predisposition genes on human neural stem cell differentiation and brain tumorigenesis with a view to developing novel techniques to stop brain cancer development.

Principal Investigator Jignesh Tailor, M.D., PhD

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18073-Takagi, Yuichiro
Takagi Lab
The Takagi Lab (Indianapolis) is interested in functionally and structurally deciphering molecular machines of gene regulation, and is particularly interested in the Mediator complex, a crucial component of transcription regulation in all eukaryotes.

Principal Investigator Yuichiro Takagi, PhD

Phone (317) 274-2719