Potential research mentors

• Dr. Young Juhn (Associate Professor of Pediatrics) NIH funded research investigating the epidemiology of wheezing and asthma. Dr. Juhn currently mentors Dr. Gretchen Matthews.
• Dr. Dennis Wigle (Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery) His research interests include molecular determinants of lung organogenesis as well as targeted lung regeneration from an understanding of cell specification in the developing lung. Dr. Wigle has agreed to mentor more than one of our fellows at a time if there is interest. Dr. Wigle currently mentors Dr. Chris Collura.
• Dr. William Carey (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics). His research focuses on the safety and physiologic effects of providing enteral nutrition to ELBW infants while receiving indomethacin. Additionally Dr. Carey's interest include the investigation of alveolar development.
• Dr. Christopher Colby (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics). Is involved in studying the effects of a standardized approach to the mechanical ventilation and resuscitation of ELBW infants. Other areas of interest include simulation based education.
• Dr. Michael Ackerman (Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Division of Pediatric Cardiology) His research includes sudden infant death syndrome as well as inherited cardiac channel anomalies.
• Dr. Jan van Deursen (Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Pediatrics) His research includes mitotic checkpoint function and chromosomal stability. His lab is also interested in transcriptional coactivators in normal and neoplastic growth.
• Dr. Piero Rinaldo (Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology and Pediatrics) His research includes expanded newborn screening.
• Dr. Grazia Isaya (Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Pediatrics) Her research includes the mechanisms that enable the cell to take advantage of the high energetic yield of oxidative phosphorylation in spite of the concomitant production of reactive oxygen species.
• Dr. Dietrich Matern (Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology and Pediatrics) His research focuses on the improvement and expansion of newborn screening and the development of new diagnostic tests for inborn errors of metabolism. In addition, he and his lab participate in several research projects aimed to develop new treatment strategies for fatty acid oxidation disorders and to characterize the biochemical phenotype of animal models of such conditions.
• Dr. Richard Bram (Associate Professor of Immunology and Pediatrics) His research focuses on molecular signaling events that control cellular behavior in activation of the immune system and in neoplastic transformation. Ongoing projects include: studies on the mechanism of action of CAML, an intracellular signal-transduction protein; characterization of TACI, a lymphocyte-specific TNFR family member; and identification of other novel proteins capable of regulating signals important in cell growth, function, or transformation.
• Dr. William Dunn (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Adult Critical Care) is the co-director of the new Mayo Multidisciplinary Simulation Center. Dr. Dunn is the former program director for the adult critical care fellowship at Mayo Clinic and is also a graduate of the Harvard Macy Institute. His research interests are in educational outcomes of using simulation based education.
• Dr. Yves Ouellette (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) His research interest includes determining the role of systemic inflammation associated with sepsis in mediating decreased gap junctional signaling within the microvascular wall.
• Dr. Slavica Katusic (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) Her research focuses the long term outcomes of a variety of disease processes utilizing the Rochester Epidemiology Project.
• Dr. Moses Rodriguez (Professor of Neurology and Immunology) His research is focused on determining the mechanisms of demyelination and remyelination in diseases such as human multiple sclerosis and perinatal white matter disease.

• March 2, 2012
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