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.

Bidwell Lab

The Bidwell Lab (Indianapolis) is exploring improvement of therapies for restoring bone lost to osteoporosis or other diseases.

Principal Investigator Joseph P. Bidwell, PhD

Phone (317) 278-1142

Bonewald Lab

The Bonewald Laboratory (Indianapolis) focuses on the biology and function of the osteocyte.

Principal Investigator Lynda F. Bonewald, PhD

Phone (317) 278-5155

Brustovetsky Lab

The Brustovetsky laboratory (Indianapolis) is working to determine the mechanisms of calcium deregulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neuronal death in aging and age-related neurodegenerations such as Huntington’s disease.

Principal Investigator Nickolay Brustovetsky, PhD

Phone (317) 278-9229

Brutkiewicz Lab

The Brutkiewicz Lab (Indianapolis) studies immune evasion by microbial pathogens and tumors as well as the regulation of antigen presentation by various signal transduction pathways in both innate and adaptive immune responses.

Principal Investigator Randy R. Brutkiewicz, PhD

Phone (317) 274-7589

Clauss Lab

The research lab (Indianapolis) of Matthias Clauss, PhD, is focused on vascular function and repair are involved in many diseases, in particular in those of the cardiopulmonary system.

Principal Investigator Matthias A. Clauss, PhD

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Clinkenbeard Lab

The Clinkenbeard Lab (Indianapolis) is exploring the molecular mechanism driving bone loss in chronic kidney disease: mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD).

Principal Investigator Erica L. Clinkenbeard, PhD

Phone (317) 278-2643

Collier Lab

The Collier Lab (Indianapolis) is dedicated to understanding the intersection of orthopaedics and cancer. The lab’s primary research explores cachexia-related muscle and bone dysfunction in metastatic renal cell carcinoma to bone; and the efficacy and mechanistic basis for epigenetic therapies in osteosarcoma.

Principal Investigator Christopher Collier, MD

Phone (317) 944-9400

Conboy Lab

The Undiagnosed and Rare Disease Clinic, directed by Erin Conboy, MD, evaluates patients who have a high suspicion of genetic disorders that have not been diagnosed with currently available clinical genetic testing. (Indianapolis)

Principal Investigator Erin Conboy, MD

Phone 317-944-3966

Conway Lab

The Conway Lab (Indianapolis) is located in the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research and focuses on the examination and manipulation of the molecular regulatory mechanisms that govern cardiopulmonary development and disease.

Principal Investigator Simon J. Conway, PhD

Phone (317) 278-8780

Cornett Lab

The mission of the Cornett Lab (Indianapolis) is to understand how, where, and why lysine methylation regulates cellular processes. Toward this goal, we use in vitro and cellular biochemistry, chemical biology, and proteomics approaches to map lysine methylation signaling networks and study the regulators of lysine methylation.

Principal Investigator Evan M. Cornett, PhD

Phone (317) 278-6425