Leadership
Gerry Hammond, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Lipid control of membrane homeostasis in health and disease
Andrey A. Parkhitko, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Metabolic reprogramming in aging and neurodegeneration
Michael Tsang, Ph.D. »
Judith Yanowitz, Ph.D, »
Professor, Reproductive Development, Aging and Infertility
Faculty
Rannar Airik, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Molecular mechanism of chronic kidney disease
Issam Al Diri, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Transcriptional regulation of retinal development and disease
Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. »
Professor, HIV and coronaviruses co-infection, pathogenesis and therapeutics
Gerard Apodaca, Ph.D. »
Professor, Kidney and Urinary tract epithelial cell in disease
Yael- Nechemia Arbely, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Molecular function of human centromeres and their role in guarding the genome
Meir Aridor, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Mechanisms of biosynthetic secretion and roles in fibrosis
Andrea J. Berman, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Understanding ribonucleoprotein complexes in transcription and translation
Irina Bochkis, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Genetic and Epigenetic regulation of metabolism
Miguel Angel Brieño-Enríquez, M.D., Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Molecular mechanism of gametogenesis
Jeffrey L. Brodsky »
Michael Butterworth, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Role of non-coding RNA in kidney injury and disease
Stephen Y. Chan, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.H.A. »
Professor of Medicine, Molecular mechanisms of pulmonary vascular disease and pulmonary hypertension
Kun-Che Chang, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Retinal development, axon regeneration and stem cell differentiation into retinal ganglion cell
Yuan Chang, M.D. »
Distinguished Professor, Viral Oncogenesis - Merkel cell carcinoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma
Yu-Chih Chen, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Single-Cell Analysis and Deep Learning for Cancer Precision Medicine
Yu-Chiao Chiu, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Precision cancer medicine - integrating machine and deep learning technology with complex multi-omics data
Anthony R. Cillo, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Systems Biology of cancer immunotherapy
Lan G. Coffman, M.D., Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Developing new treatments targeting Ovarian cancer
Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D. »
Christopher Cunningham, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, The Sensory and Neural Biology of the Auditory System
Jishnu Das, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Systems biology of immunological disorders
Lance A. Davidson, MSc, Ph.D. »
William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering, mechanical design principles of embryonic morphogenesis
Silmara de Lima, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Neuroprotection and regeneration of retinal ganglion cells
Terence S. Dermody, M.D. »
Vira I. Heinz Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, Molecular mechanisms of virus replication and its role in pathogenesis
Daniel C. Devor, Ph.D. »
Professor, Adverse events in CF therapeutics - role of potassium channels
Peter F. Drain, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Granule K-ATP channel in insulin secretion
Andrew W. Duncan, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, The role of chromosome variations in liver homeostasis, regeneration, and repair
Partha Dutta, DVM, Ph.D. »
Professor and Director, Center for Cardiovascular Inflammation, The role of the immune system on cardiovascular disease
Mo Ebrahimkhani, M.D. »
Associate Professor, Programming stem cell derived organoids using synthetic biology and genetically guided engineering
Farzad Esni Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Pancreatic regeneration and cancer
James R. Faeder, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Mechanistic modeling of cell signaling networks, Systems immunology, Viral replication dynamics
Toren Finkel, M.D., Ph.D. »
Professor of Medicine, Mitochondrial function, cellular metabolism, and oxidative stress in aging
Elise Fouquerel, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, PARP enzymes and their role in the maintenance of telomeres and centromeres’ integrity.
Zachary Freyberg, M.D., Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Functional and structural characterization of dopamine signaling
Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Large scale discovery of protein-protein interactions and their application to understanding of disease mechanisms
Shou-Jiang (SJ) Gao, Ph.D. »
Professor, Molecular Mechanism of Viral Oncogenesis
Xin (Daniel) Gao, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Integrating biomolecular engineering, gene editing, chemical biology, and AI in therapeutic design
Stacy Gelhaus, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Metabolism and signaling of bioactive fatty acids in lung disease
Arjumand Ghazi, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor , Genetic Regulation of Aging
Eric S. Goetzman, Ph.D. »
Delphine Gomez, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Epigenetics of vascular cell differentiation
Rachel A. Gottschalk, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, Systems immunology of macrophage function
Patricia Grace, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Antibody mediated immunity in tuberculosis
Angela Gronenborn, Ph.D. »
UPMC Rosalind Franklin Professor , Integrative Structural Biology Studies on Disease-Related Proteins
Haitao Guo, Ph.D. »
Professor, Molecular mechanisms of viral replication and oncogenesis
Aditi U. Gurkar, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Understanding the role of DNA damage and cellular senescence in aging
Associate Professor, Lipid control of membrane homeostasis in health and disease
Graham Hatfull, Ph.D. »
HHMI Professor; Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology , Molecular genetics of mycobacteria; site-specific recombination
Nadine Hempel, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Mechanism of metastasis and tumor progression of ovarian cancer
Jacqueline Ho, M.D. MSc »
Professor, The role of microRNAs in normal kidney development and in kidney disease
Yang Hong, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Cell polarity and membrane lipid dynamics
Thomas Alexander Hooven, M.D. »
Assistant Professor, Molecular genetics, microbiome analysis, and host-pathogen interaction of B Streptococcus
Yufei Huang, Ph.D. »
Professor, Systems biology in cancer and precision medicine
Neil Hukriede, Ph.D. »
Professor, Director of Center for Integrative Organ Systems , Understanding kidney organogenesis and regeneration
Hun-Way Hwang, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, RNA processing in human disease
Keisuke Ishihara, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Synthetic approach to study how cells form tissues
Eldin Jašarević, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Complex interplay between microbiota and the transcriptional regulation in host tissues
Alok Joglekar, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Systems approaches to understand and engineer T cell immunity
Craig Kaplan, Ph.D. »
Professor, Eukaryotic gene expression mechanisms using model organisms
Ossama B. Kashlan, Ph.D. »
Thomas R. Kleyman, M.D. »
Chief, Renal-Electrolyte Division,Sheldon Adler Professor of Medicine , Structure and regulation of epithelial ion channels
David Ryan Koes, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor , Developing computational algorithms and build full-scale systems in drug discovery
Dennis Kostka, Ph.D, »
Associate Professor, Gene expression and its regulation in development and disease
Adam V. Kwiatkowski, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Cardiomyocyte adhesion and cytoskeletal organization
Adrian Lee, Ph.D. »
Miler T. Lee, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Gene regulation and pluripotency induction in the developing embryo
Robin E.C. Lee, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Systems, synthetic biology and engineering to elucidate molecular circuits in cells
Youjin Lee, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Systems biology to define cellular communication networks in immune responses
Sanford H. Leuba, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Regulation of gene expression
Tera Levin, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, How evolution shapes molecular interactions between hosts and pathogens
Guang Li, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in heart development
Jing Li, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Immunoregulatory mechanisms regulating anti-tumor immunity and autoimmune responses
Cecilia Lo, Ph.D., FAHA »
Distinguished Professor and F. Sargent Cheever Chair, Genetics, epigenetics, and metabolomics of congenital heart disease
Jason Lohmueller, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Synthetic biology in engineering receptor proteins and gene circuits for cell therapy
Nathan Lord, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Adaptive mechanisms in embryo development
Mellissa Mann, BSc, MSc, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Epigenetic mechanisms regulating genomic imprinting in gametogenesis and embryo development
Hansruedi Mathys, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease
Curtis McCloskey, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Systems biology focused on breast and ovarian cancer biology
Stephen D. Meriney, Ph.D. »
Professor, Synaptic function and plasticity of presynaptic ion channels
Adele Moatti, Ph.D. »
Satdarshan (Paul) Monga, Ph.D. »
Professor, Chair of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, Investigating the cellular and molecular basis of liver development, regeneration, fibrosis, and cancer.
Patrick Moore, M.D., MPH »
Distinguished and American Cancer Society Professor, Discovery and characterization of new human tumor viruses
Sandra A. Murray, Ph.D. »
Professor, Mechanisms of gap junction protein trafficking & intercellular communication
Logan R. Myler, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Mechanisms of DNA double-strand break repair and telomere maintenance
Benjamin Nacev, M.D., Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Understand how cancer-associated genetic alterations in chromatin regulators promote cancer
Niranjana Natarajan, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Inflammatory mechanisms underlying cardiac remodeling in heart failure
Allyson F. O'Donnell, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Defining the mechanisms of selective protein targeting and trafficking
Steffi Oesterreich, Ph.D. »
Professor and Shear Family Foundation Chair for Breast Cancer Research, Understanding of development and progression of breast cancer
Kyle Orwig, Ph.D. »
Marcus Allen Hogge Professor of Reproductive Genetics, Functions of stem cells, germ lineage development in fertility and infertility
Hatice U. Osmanbeyoglu, M.S., Ph.D »
Assistant Professor, Developing integrative machine learning approaches to improve clinical outcomes
Udai Pandey, Ph.D. »
Professor, Molecular Mechanisms of Human Neurodegenerative Diseases
Assistant Professor, Metabolic reprogramming in aging and neurodegeneration
David Peters, Ph.D. »
Professor, development of wet lab and computational methods for the non-invasive diagnosis and management of human disease
Amanda C. Poholek, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Regulation of T-Cell function
Mark Rebeiz, Ph.D. »
Professor, Development and evolution of morphological phenotypes
Charles R. Rinaldo, Ph.D. »
Professor, Cellular immunologic responses to viruses
Beth L. Roman, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Understanding the etiology of arteriovenous malformations
Frederick (Fritz) Roth, Ph.D. »
Professor and John K. Vries Chair, Computational and large-scale experimental approaches to define impacts of human sequence variation
Jami L. Saloman, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Role of the nervous system in organ function during homeostasis and disease
Francisco J. Schopfer, Ph.D., MBA »
Professor, Mechanism of bioactive lipids activity in physiological and pathological conditions.
Donghun Shin, Ph.D. »
Professor, Plasticity-mediated liver regeneration using zebrafish
Mark Jay Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D. »
UPMC Endowed and Distinguished Professor, Mechanism of systemic autoimmune diseases, long-lived B cell immunity, and immunopathogenesis
Masahiro Shuda, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Epigenetic factors and stem cell factors in small DNA tumor virus replication and virus-induced cell transformation
Harinder Singh, Ph.D. »
Professor and Director, Center for Systems Immunology, Experimental and computational analyses of gene regulatory networks controlling immune effector and memory cell states
Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, Ph.D. »
Professor, Mechanisms of action of antiretroviral drugs; antiviral and antimicrobial drug resistance
Thomas E. Smithgall »
William S. McEllroy Professor , Protein-tyrosine kinase structure, function, and drug discovery in cancer and infectious diseases
Mark Snyder, M.D. »
Associate Professor, Role of tissue resident memory T cells in the development of chronic rejection after lung transplantation
Alexander Sorkin, Ph.D. »
Richard Beatty Mellon Professor and Chair , Mechanisms and functional role of endocytic trafficking of EGF receptor in cancer cells and neurons
Claudette M. St. Croix, Ph.D. »
Professor, Optical Imaging Technologies for Vascular Signaling
Cynthia St. Hilaire, Ph.D., FAHA »
Associate Professor, Identifying the mechanisms underlying vascular and valvular calcification pathologies
Wayne Stallaert, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Systems biology of cellular fate decisions
Matthew Steinhauser »
Associate Professor, Mechanism of adipose tissue dysfunction, and cardiometabolic diseases in aging
Adam C. Straub, Ph.D. »
Arohan R. Subramanya »
Associate Professor, Role of biomolecular condensates in cellular physiology
Stella Sun, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Pathogen-host interaction from structural and molecular cell biology approaches
Jay Tan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Lysosomal quality control in aging and disease
Roderick Tan, M.D., Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine , Molecular and cellular mechanisms driving acute and chronic kidney injuries
D. Lansing Taylor »
Professor and Director ofUniversity of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute , Application of quantitative systems pharmacology to drug discovery
Gary Thomas, Ph.D. »
Professor, Membrane trafficking in homeostasis and disease
Jeremy Tilstra, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Understanding basic signaling mechanisms leading to lupus nephritis
Shikhar Uttam, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Computational imaging and optics using machine learning applied to cancer systems biology
Karina J. Vargas, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Function of alpha-synuclein in synaptic physiology and neurodenerative disease
Deepika Vasudevan, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, mRNA translation regulation during stress and homeostasis
Dario Vignali, Ph.D. »
Frank Dixon Chair and Distinguished Professor of Immunology, Systems immunology of immune control in cancer and autoimmunity
Xiaosong (Jonathan) Wang, M.D., Ph.D. »
Professor of Pathology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Simon C. Watkins, Ph.D. »
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair, Microscopes and Imaging
Alan Watson, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Tool development for imaging large biologic systems
Xiangyun Wei, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Function of cell polarity genes in zebrafish tissue morphogenesis.
Ora Weisz, Ph.D. »
Professor, Regulation of apical membrane traffic in kidney health and disease.
Alan Wells, Ph.D. »
Thomas J. Gill III Professor, Physiological and Pathological Aspects of Cell Motility – from Molecules to Tissues
Matthew Wohlever, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biogenesis and quality control of membrane proteins
Yijen Wu, Ph.D. »
Assistant Professor, Multi-Systems Imaging Characterization for Mitochondrial Involvement in Neurological Disease
Jianhua Xing, Ph.D. »
Professor, Quantitative systems biology approaches to study cell fate decision in cancer, and regeneration
Professor, Reproductive Development, Aging and Infertility
Ioannis Zervantonakis, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, Quantitative approach integrating microfluidics, systems biology, and in vivo experiments to study tumors
Bokai Zhu, Ph.D. »
Associate Professor, 12-hour ultradian rhythm of proteostasis, mRNA metabolism, and stress response
Graduate Students
Alia Arya »
Atharva Bhagwat »
Nilay Bhatt »
Trirupa Chakraborty »
5th Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Immunology, Dr. Jishnu Das Lab
Vijay Kiran Cherupally »
Esther Choi »
Prosper Chukwuemeka »
5th Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Immunology, Dr. Dario Vignali Lab
Rose Dever
1st Year CMSB Graduate Student
Sri Ramya Donepudi »
5th Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology , Dr. Stacy Gelhaus Lab
Alek Grady »
Hannah Henry »
Matthew Hoffman
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student
Joshua Holloway »
4th Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Medicine, Dr. Ora Weisz Lab
Ou Ning (Owen) Hsiu »
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology , Dr. Elise Fouquerel Lab
Rachel Hvasta
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student
Ishita Isha
Dmytro Klitchyk »
3rd Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Dr. Nathan Lord Lab
Michael Kvorjak »
5th Year CMSB Graduate Student, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center -Division of Surgical Oncology Research, Dr. Jason Lohmueller Lab
Jared Lashway »
Julia Lewis
1st Year CMSB Graduate Student
Aditi Luitel »
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Medicine-Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dr. Andrey Parkhitko Lab
Aidan Matunis »
3rd Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Medicine-Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Dr. Jeremy Tilstra Lab
Satabdi Mohanty »
El-Hassan Moustafa
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student
Daniel Okpaise »
5th Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases, Drs. Charles Rinaldo and Nicolas Sluis-Cremer Labs
Alexa Orsino
1st Year CMSB Graduate Student
Sudipta Pathak
5th Year CMSB Graduate Student
Rajdeep Pawar »
4th Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Dr. Shikhar Uttam Lab
Danielle Pitlor »
Karliane Rivera
1st Year CMSB Graduate Student
Santiago Rivero
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student
Varvara Rubtsova
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Dr. Curtis McCloskey Lab
Abigail Sanders
1st Year CMSB Graduate Student
Joseph Schinderle »
Paul Schnebly »
Nicholas (Nico) Schwartz »
Shawn Slaymaker »
Deepa Suryanaryan »
5th Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Medicine-Division of Cardiology, Dr. Delphine Gomez Lab
Atharva S. Torne »
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Terence Dermody Lab
Nishtha Trivedi »
Haokun (Hector) Wang »
Xuerui (Rui) Wang »
2nd Year CMSB Graduate Student, Department of Immunology, Drs. Dario Vignali and Alok Joglekar Labs
Tongyu Wu »
Shari Murphy