Faculty & Staff

Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program

Work alongside world-class scholars in the Biomedical Sciences graduate program, specializing in diverse research areas such as the molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, advanced carbon materials and biomaterials like spider silk, SERS biosensors and immobilized enzyme systems and advanced exercise physiology.

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Sreejayan Nair

Director, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program | Professor of Pharmacology

School of Pharmacy

Areas of study: pharmaceutical sciences, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, molecular mechanisms of disease and physiology

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Brenda Alexander

Professor

Department of Animal Science

Areas of study: animal behavior, reproductive physiology, neurobiology and endocrinology

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Bledar Bisha

Department Head | Associate Professor

Department of Animal Science

Areas of study: food microbiology, microbial diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance, microbial ecology and food safety

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Danielle Bruns

Associate Professor

Zoology & Physiology

Areas of study: cardiovascular physiology, heart disease mechanisms, exercise physiology and therapeutic interventions for heart failure

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Jared Bushman

Associate Professor

School of Pharmacy

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Sheba David

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy

Areas of study: drug delivery, nanoparticles, biomaterials and pharmacological assessments

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Khaled Elokely

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Science

Drug discovery and development, medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, integrative drug design approaches.

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Alex French

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy

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Guanglong He

Associate Professor

School of Pharmacy

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Jill Keith

Department Head | Associate Professor

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

Areas of study: nutrition science, human eating behaviors, dietary health outcomes, food sensory characteristics, Indigenous food systems, community-based health research and health education disparities

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Katelyn J. Kotlarek, PhD, CCC-SLP

Associate Professor

Communication Disorders | College of Health Sciences

Areas of study: Velopharyngeal anatomy and physiology, MRI of the velopharynx, surgical interventions for palate repair, feeding and speech development in cleft palate

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Ken McClure

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of Study: Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Testing, Ambulatory Designs, Intensive Longitudinal Data

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Christine McKibbin

Professor

Department of Psychology

Areas of study: gerontology, rural health, aging and mental health, caregiving, community-engaged research, telehealth interventions and healthcare workforce development

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John Oakey

Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering & Energy and Petroleum Engineering

Areas of study: fluid dynamics, colloidal science, materials science, microfluidics, biomedical engineering and biomaterials

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Tim Robinson

Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statsitics

Areas of study: data science, hierarchical modeling, response surface methods, statistics education, and applications in ecology, medicine and the environment

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Emily Schmitt

Assistant Professor

Division of Kinesiology and Health

Areas of study: exercise physiology, circadian biology, molecular mechanisms of circadian disruption and disease prevention

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Grace Shearrer

Assistant Professor

Family & Consumer Sciences, Human Nutrition & Food

Areas of study: Nutrition, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity prevention, Childhood and Adolescent development.

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Derek Smith

Associate Professor

Division of Kinesiology and Health

Areas of study: kinesiology, health behavior change, physical activity interventions, chronic disease prevention and lifestyle modification

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Qian-Quan Sun

Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Areas of study: neuroscience, neurophysiology, brain development and neural network plasticity

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Marie-Agnès Tellier

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of study: environmental statistics, ecology, natural resource management, spatio-temporal modeling and computational data analysis

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Jenifer Thomas

Associate Professor

Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing

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Karen Wawrousek

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences

Areas of Study: Synthetic biology and genetic engineering of non-model bacteria for the production of fuels and chemicals. Microbial communities in extreme environments. Diagnostic assay development.

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Qin Zhu

Professor

Division of Kinesiology and Health

Areas of study: perceptual-motor skills, human movement, motor control and rehabilitation

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