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Immunology, Pathology & Infectious Disease Faculty

Faculty Departments

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Clinical Laboratory Sciences
College of Dentistry
College of Pharmacy
Eppley Institute
Genetics Cell Biology and Anatomy
Internal Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Pediatrics
Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
Radiology
Surgery

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Faculty

	Maher Y. Abdalla, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), Heme Osygenase-1 (HO-1) and immune cells in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and prostate cancer.
	Yazen Alnouti, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research focus: Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK), with a focus on the application of Bioanalytical Chemistry, in vitro and in vivo animal models to support ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) and pharmacokinetic (PK) studies; Biomarkers for hepato-biliary diseases based on bile acid metabolism by sulfation.
	Leonardo da Silva Augusto, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Cellular metabolism changes in neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration caused by chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection.
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	Hamid Band, MD, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Regulation of receptor signaling by endocytic traffic; Cbl-family and CHIP ubiquitin ligases; EHD-family endocytic recycling regulators; mouse genetic models; cancer and stem cell biology.
	Surinder K. Batra, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Structure/function analysis of tumor-associated genes; cancer diagnostics, cancer vaccines; monoclonal antibodies, genetic engineering of antibodies.
	Kenneth W. Bayles, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Staphylococcus aureus infections; biofilm development; the control of bacterial programmed cell death.
	Chengfeng (Andy) Bi, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Oncology and Hematology Research focus: Pathogenesis and molecular mechanism of hematological malignancies.
	Piero Bianco, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research focus: Stalled DNA replication fork rescue to maintain genome stability.
	Aleh (Oleg) Bobr, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Transfusion medicine.
	M. Jana Broadhurst, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Emerging and englected infectious diseases diagnostic assay development for clinical and public health applications.
	Shilpa Buch, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Therapeutic strategies that may enhance neural function and survival in NeuroAIDS, with possible implications in other neurodegenerative diseases.
	Keely Buesing, MD, FACS Associate Professor, Department of Surgery Research focus: Large animal and pulmonary cellular investigation of novel therapeutics targeting Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
	Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Understanding and developing therapeutics for emerging/re-emerging viruses, focusing on HIV, Zika and SARS-CoV-2.
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	W. Scott Campbell, MBA, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Health informatics and pathology informatics.
	Rey Carabeo, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Cytoskeletal dynamics and mechanostransduction in Chlamydia invasion and pathogen modulation of host epithelial cell-extracellular matrix interaction; Transcriptomic studies of Chlamydia stress adaption.
	Sujata Chaudhari, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Arthropod physiology and bacterial pathogenesis; study of tick vector physiology with focus on cuticle development and pathogen transmission; chitin metabolism in arthropods using Tribolium castaneum as a genetic model system; Staphylococcal metabolism and stress response.
	Pi-Wan Cheng, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Study of the mechanism of altered glycosylation in human disease.
	Vinai Chittezham Thomas, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Staphylococcal physiology and metabolism; staphylococcus stress response.
	Samuel M. Cohen, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Urologic pathology, carcinogenesis and toxicology.
	Martin Conda-Sheridan, PhD Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Design of complex multifunctional biomaterials and bioactive small molecules for medicinal applications.
	Leah Cook, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Investigation of immune interactions within the tumor bone microenvironment that contribute to bone metastatic prostate cancer; identifying novel immunotherapeutic targets for treating and curing metastatic cancers.
	Jesse Cox, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Human DNA identification laboratory, HLA and transplant, and blood banking and transfusion medicine.
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	Bhavana Dave, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Clinical cytogenetics and molecular genetics.
	Paul Davis, PhD Professor, Department of Biology (UNO) Research focus: Investigating and developing novel approaches to prevent and treat human parasitic infections, using approaches that include molecular biology, bioinformatics, -omics, high-content imaging, and genetics.
	Paul Denton, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biology (UNO) Research focus: Improving immunotherapies to treat malignancies
	Jixin Dong, PhD Associate Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Hippo signaling and cancer; Chemotherapeutic drug resistance.
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	Benson Edagwa, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Design, development and evaluation of antiretroviral prodrugs, development of long acting slow effective release ART (LASER ART) and their application to testing in cell and small animal based assays.
	Dalia Elgamal, PhD Assistant Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Pathogenesis of B-cell malignancies, including immunosuppressive microenvironmental interactions and the gut microbiome, and evaluating novel anti-tumor therapeutics strategies.
	Jared Evans, PhD Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Research focus: Virology and infectious disease.
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	Joseph Fauver, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology Research focus: Pathogen genomics and bioinformatics; genomic epidemiology; SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics; genomics of infectious disease control programs; mosquito-borne pathogens.
	Paul D. Fey, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Staphylococcal biology, metabolism and pathogenesis.
	Kurt Fisher, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Basic and transitional research with the goal of identifying and evaluating novel targets for therapy in gastrointestinal tumors with K-Ras mutations; GI tract, liver, and solid organ transplant pathology.
	Howard S. Fox, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences Research focus: Neurodegeneration, viral infections, single cell analyses of the brain, translational research in neuroscience.
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	Carol Geary, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Use of structured electronic health record data in research, progmatic trials using the PCORnet or OHDSI Networks, qualatitive and engaged research.
	Howard E. Gendelman, MD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Development and testing of HIV-1 cure strategies; Basic and clinical studies on novel medicines to treat Parkinson's disease.
	Stacey Gilk, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Microbial pathogenesis; Coxiella, Rickettsia
	Santhi Gorantla, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Humanized mouse models for HIV brain infection; influence of substance use on brain HIV latency, inflammation and pathogenesis.
	Karen Gould, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Estrogen receptor alpha regulation of B cell receptor signaling, B cell fate, and lupus pathogenesis. B cell transcriptomics and genomics.
	Timothy C. Greiner, MD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Etiology and progression of lymphoma by examining the mutational spectra of oncogenes and tumor suppresser genes.
	Chittibabu (Babu) Guda, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Research focus: Development and application of computational methods for genomic data analyses including cancer genomics, functional annotation of proteins, pathways, networks and systems in biomedical research.
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	Lynda Harris, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynocology Research focus: Studying placental function in animals and humans; developing obstetric nanomedicines, placental-specific drug delivery systems and other treatments for placental dysfunction.
	Kyle Hewitt, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy Research focus: Hematopoitic stem and progenitor cell control of blood production during development and/or regeneration following disease or injury; transcriptional and epigentic mechanisms that cause hematologic disorders; tissue and cellular heterogeneity; CRISPR/Cas9-mediated disruption of gene regulatory networks and cell signaling mechanisms.
	Karen Honeycutt, PhD, MEd, MLS(ASCP)SM Associate Professor, College of Allied Health Professions – Clinical Laboratory Science Education Research focus: Effective and efficient educational methodologies; active learning strategies, online and multimedia educational platforms; incorporation of professionalism in MLS education; women and the academic doctoral degree path.
	Corey Hopkins, PhD Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Research focus: Design, synthesis and optimization of biologically active small molecules as in vivo probes, drug discovery lead compounds and preclinical candidates.
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	Javeed Iqbal, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Molecular signatures to improve diagnosis and outcome prediction in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; gene expression profiling and pathway targeted therapy in peripheral T-cell lymphoma; characterization of key molecular signatures in natural killer cell malignancies.
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	Georgette D. Kanmogne, PhD, MPH Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: HIV/AIDS, vascular biology and cell signaling.
	Adam R. Karpf, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Ovarian cancer biology and therapeutics; Cancer epigenetics.
	Tammy L. Kielian, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Host-pathogen interactions, immunology, neuroimmunology, translational therapeutics.
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	Marilynn Larson, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Host and intracellular pathogen interactions, and determining the mechanisms that allow the Tier 1 select agent Francisella tularensis to persist and rapidly replicate within infected macrophages.
	McKenzie Lehman, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Bacterial pathogenesis.
	Yutong Liu, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Radiology Research focus: Neuroimaging and image processing.
	Oksana Lockridge, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Transglutaminase levels are high in pancreatic ductal carcinoma. By crosslinking proteins, transglutaminase alters their stability and function; protein identification through mass spectrometry.
	Xu Luo, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways in cell death and survival in cancer cells.
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	Roslyn Mannon, MD Vice Chair, Department of Internal Medicine - Nephrology Research focus: Mechanisms of long term kidney allograft injury both immunological and nonimmunological using in vitro studies.
	Grinu Mathew, PhD Assistant Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Genetic and epigentic regulation of prostate cancer metastasis.
	Thomas McDonald, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Immunology; antigen isolation and purification; acute phase proteins; inflammation; immunoassays.
	Benita McVicker, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology-Hepatology Research focus: Alcohol liver injury and mechanisms.
	R. Lee Mosley, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Regulation of T Lymphocyte function; T cell-mediated immunity in neurodegenerative disorders.
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	Prabagaran (Praba) Narayanasamy, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Drug design, discovery and development (including drug delivery by nanomedicine) for infectious diseases; study of physiology and pathogenesis of bacteria and virus towards drug discovery; design, synthesis and characterization of substrates, inhibitors, intermediates, products and mechanisms for drug discovery and development.
	Caroline Ng, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Biology and pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum, genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying drug resistance.
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	Scot Ouellette, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Chlamydial microbiology: bacterial cell division, gene regulation, host-pathogen interactions.
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	Thomas Petro, PhD Professor, College of Dentistry Research focus: Using molecular immunobiology approaches to explore intrinsic pathways to or novel therapeutics for expression and control of cytokines to prevent chronic viral infections, autoimmune disease and/or inflammatory diseases.
	Iraklis Pipinos, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Research focus: Development of regenerative medicine strategies for skeletal muscle tissues in the legs of patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
	Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Research focus: Pathogenesis and treatment of HIV-1 associated dementia; translational mouse models for human-specific diseases.
	Moorthy Ponnusamy, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Cancer stem cells; metastasis; progression of pancreatic cancer.
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	St. Patrick Reid, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Molecular virology of novel functions of proteins encoded by highly pathogenic viruses; Elucidating host-pathogen interactions of emerging highly pathogenic viruses including Ebola, Chikungunga and Zika.
	Angie A. Rizzino, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Molecular mechanisms that regulate the proliferation of cancer stem cells and pluripotent stem cells.
	Don Ronning, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research focus: Discovery and development of anti-infective and anti-cancer compounds.
	Elizabeth Rucks, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Host trafficking to the chlamydial inclusion, growth and development of chlamydia.
	Mark Rupp, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
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	Ruxana Sadikot, MD Chair, Department of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine Research focus: Defining the lung immune response; Mechanism of lung injury.
	Marat Sadykov, PhD Assistant Professor, Department Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Research focus: Bacterial genetics, physiology, and metabolism.
	Derrick Samuelson, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine Research focus: Intestinal microbial constituents that mediate pulmonary host defense against respiratory pathogens.
	Joshua Santarpia, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Detection, measurement and characterization of bioaerosols, atmospheric chemistry of bioaerosols, microbial communities in ambient environment (aerosol, soil and water) and bacteriophage for therapeutic and industrial uses.
	Kimberly Scarsi, PharmD Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science Research focus: Optimizing pharmacologic therapies for the treatment and prevention of HIV, with an emphasis on global health and gender related issues.
	Amar Singh, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research focus: Molecular mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer; renal pathobiology.
	Rakesh K. Singh, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Tumor growth and metastasis, angiogenesis, tumor immunology, cytokine biology.
	Joyce Solheim, PhD Professor, Eppley Cancer Institute Research focus: Mechanisms regulating the immune response to tumors and infectious pathogens, and development of new immunotherapies.
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	Geoffrey Talmon, MD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Surgical, renal and placental pathology.
	William Tapprich, PhD Professor, Department of Biology (UNO) Research focus: Understanding the structure and function of viral RNA molecules, particularly enteroviral genomic RNA.
	Geoffrey M. Thiele, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine - Rheumatology Research focus: Autoimmunity, immune system disorders, immunopathology; infectious diseases/agents; Rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, breast cancer and the immune system, bone loss and erosion, alcoholic liver disease.
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	Trevor VanSchooneveld, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Research focus: Antimicrobial stewardship; Clostridium difficile infections; multi-drug gram negative pathogens; use of infection biomarkers in clinical practice.
	Joseph Vetro, PhD Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy Research focus: Developing novel synthetic targeted drug and gene delivery nanocarriers for the anti-angiogenesis treatment of cancer; improving development paradigms for targeted bioimaging and drug delivery nanocarriers; developing subunit vaccines based on the novel adjuvant, EP67.
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	Dong Wang, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Science Research focus: Macromolecular therapies for inflammatory diseases; dentrothropic therapies for oral and cranifocial diseases; targeted therapies for musculoskeletal diseases; click chemistry for drug delivery and nanomedicine, biocompatible polymers for biomedical applications; prodrug design.
	Guangshun (Gus) Wang, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Develop novel antimicrobials by combining structural biology and database with in vitro and in vivo toxicity and efficacy studies.
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	Jian Xie, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Membrane-associated virus-host interactions in infection and innate immunity.
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	Pengwei Zhang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Research focus: Virus-host interactions of intracellular virus trafficking.
	Siwei Zhao, PhD Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine Research focus: Developing novel electrical engineering technologies to facilitate localized drug delivery, chronic wound healing and neural/muscular rehabilitation after peripheral nerve injury.
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