RTI Affiliated Faculty

Raffi V. Aroian, PhD

Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine

Focus: Intestinal parasitic nematodes, drug discovery, autoimmune diseases, host-pathogen interactions. Bacillus thuringiensis. Cellular responses to pore-forming toxins.

Aroian Lab

Christina Baer, PhD

Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Physiological Systems

Focus: Development of light microscopy techniques for investigating significant impacts on human health including infectious disease and chronic inflammatory conditions.

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Robert Brown, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology

Focus: Neuromuscular diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), muscular dystrophy, adrenoleukodystrophy, hereditary neuropathy and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.

Vivian Budnik, PhD

Professor and Chair, Neurobiology

Focus: Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Assembly and Plasticity.

Michael P. Czech, PhD

Professor and Isadore and Fannie Foxman Chair of Medical Research, Program in Molecular Medicine

Focus: RNAi-based therapeutic strategies for inflammatory and metabolic diseases.

Czech Lab

Terence R. Flotte, MD

Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor of Medical Education, Dean, Provost and Executive Deputy Chancellor

Focus: Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy vectors for, cystic fibrosis (CF), alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (AAT) and fatty oxidation disorders (FAO).

Flotte Lab

Fen-Biao Gao, PhD

Professor, Neurology

Focus: Understanding frontotemporal dementia and neuronal microRNAs.

Gao Lab

Guangping Gao, PhD

Co-Director, Li Weibo Institute for Rare Diseases Research; Director, Horae Gene Therapy Center and Viral Vector Core; Professor of Microbiology and Physiological Systems; Penelope Booth Rockwell Professor in Biomedical Research

Focus: Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector mediated gene transfer for gene therapy & gene therapy of inherited neurodegenerative Canavan Disease.

Gao Lab

Manuel Garber, PhD

Associate Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine; Director of the UMMS Bioinformatics Core

Focus: Molecular evolution, mechanisms of transcriptional regulation of innate immune responses, functional characterization of the non-coding genome.

Garber Lab

Michael Green, MD, PhD

Department Chair, Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology; Vice Provost for Strategic Research Initiatives; Director, Cancer Center; Co-Director, The Li Weibo Institute for Rare Diseases Research

Focus: Eukaryotic gene regulation and cancer molecular biology.

Green Lab

Dale L. Greiner, PhD

Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine

Focus: To understand the etiology and pathogenesis of autoimmune type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D).

Greiner Lab

Gang Han, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Focus: Synthetic nanomaterials for siRNA delivery and biomolecule imaging.

Han Lab

David M. Harlan, MD

Professor, Department of Medicine; Chief, Diabetes; Co-Director, Diabetes Center of Excellence

Focus: Tolerance mechanisms and organ/tissue transplantation. Autoimmune illnesses, especially insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Human beta cell biology. Improving diabetes care delivery systems.

Harlan Lab

Allan Jacobson, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems

Focus: Cytoplasmic Aspects of the Post-transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression.

Jacobson Lab

Arthur M. Krieg, MD

Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute

Focus: Oligonucleotide therapeutics in oncology, checkpoint inhibitors, CpG oligonucleotide therapy, combination therapy.