USA College of Medicine
 
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
 
   
   
Faculty  
 
Aronson, Nathan N., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

(251) 460-6402
Email: naronson@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Family 18 chitinases and related proteins: Structure and function in tissue remodeling; glycoprotein degradation and human disease
 
Barik, Sailen, Ph.D.
Professor

(251) 460-6860
Email: sbarik@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Signal transduction in relation to gene regulation in infectious agents, functional genomics, reversible phosphorylation, structure-function analysis of protein kinases, phosphatases, and their physiological substrates.
 
Cioffi, Donna L., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

(251) 460-6943
Email: dlcioffi@usouthal.edu
Calcium signaling and autoantibodies in pulmonary endothelial barrier disruption.
 

Gerthoffer, William T., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair

(251) 460-6856
Email: wgerthoffer@usouthal.edu
Actin cytoskeleton and small heat shock proteins in vascular and airway smooth muscle contraction, cell migration and smooth muscle phenotype determination.  p38MAP kinase regulation of microRNA silencing mechanisms in smooth muscle.

 
Gupte, Rakhee S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

(251) 460-6402
Email: rakheegupte@usouthal.edu
DNA replication, one of the most remarkable and challenging steps in the cell cycle, is the result of the collaboration of a formidable number of proteins.
 

Gupte, Sachin A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

(251) 460-6170
Email: sagupte@usouthal.edu
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of ischemia and reperfusion injury of the heart, pulmonary hypertension.

 
Honkanen, Richard E., Ph.D.
Professor

(251) 460-6859
Email: honkanen@sungcg.usouthal.edu
Protein phosphatases (molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis; mechanisms of cardioprotective agents in ischemic myocytes).
 
Lane, Roger S. Ph.D.
Associate Professor

(251) 460-6842
Email: rlane@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Medical Biochemistry Education
 
Rocic, Petra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

(251) 460-6402
Email: procic@usouthal.edu
Vascular growth and remodeling in metabolic syndrome, redox signaling mechanisms regulating collateral growth, angiogenesis and vascular hypertrophy
 

Adjunct Faculty

Flodin, N.W., Ph.D. (251) 460-6853

Ochi, Rikuo, M.D., Ph.D. (251) 460-6845

Pannell, L., Ph.D. (251) 4148201

Sjoholm, Ake, Ph.D.

Turrens, J.F., Ph.D. (251) 380-2710

   

Staff

Cathy G. Thompson
Secretary V
Phone:460-6402
Fax: 460-6850
Email: cgthompson@usouthal.edu
 
   

Betty Farley
Grants Administration Specialist
Phone: 460-6851
Fax: 460-6850
Email: bfarley@usouthal.edu

 
   
 


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