Faculty: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Susan L Hamilton, Ph.D.
- Professor and L. F. McCollum Chair in Molecular Physiology
- susanh@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5704
Biochemistry and Biophysics; Cardiovascular Sciences; Cell and Developmental Biology; Human Disease
Kjersti Marie Aagaard, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor
- aagaardt@bcm.edu
Microbiome interactions to preterm birth; The in utero environment and epigenetics in fetal programming and development
Christie Mitchell Ballantyne, M.D.
- Vice Chair of Research
- cmb@bcm.edu
Clinical and translational research in patients with hereditary lipid disorders for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and genetic epidemiology related to lipids and cardiovascular disease
Christine Beeton, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- beeton@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5030
Autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis); Identification of therapeutic targets and drug development…
Penelope E Bonnen, Ph.D., B.S.
- Associate Professor
- pbonnen@bcm.edu
Functional genomics, bioinformatics, metabolomics and human genetics of mitochondrial and metabolic disease.
Aladin M Boriek, Ph.D.
- Professor
- boriek@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-6091
Research Interests
Biykem Bozkurt, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor
- bbozkurt@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 794-8019
Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease
William E Brownell, Ph.D.
- Jake and Nina Kamin Chair of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences
- brownell@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-8540
Research Interests
Robert M Bryan Jr, Ph.D.
- Professor
- rbryan@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-7720
Cindy A Buckmaster, Ph.D.
- Dir, Ctr-Comp Med
- buckmast@bcm.edu
Audrey E. Christiansen, Ph.D., B.S.
- Instructor
- audrey.christiansen@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5618
Thomas A. Cooper, M.D.
- Professor
- tcooper@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3141
Alternative splicing regulation in development and disease; Molecular pathogenesis of myotonic dystrophy…
William James Craigen, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor
Phone
- (832) 822-4294
Genetic Disorders and Metabolic Disorders
Miguel Cruz, Ph.D.
- Professor
- miguelc@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 794-7775
Thrombosis, von Willebrand factor, platelet adhesion, DIC, extracellular hemoglobin, inflammation, vimentin, tranlational medicine
Mary E. Dickinson, Ph.D.
- Professor and Kyle and Josephine Morrow Endowed Chair
- mdickins@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-2104
Vascular remodeling and heart morphogenesis in early vertebrate embryos; Mammalian Genetics; Biomedical Imaging; Cell and Developmental Biology…
Tony Eissa, M.D.
- Professor
- teissa@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3190
Regulation of Autophagy in Innate Immunity; Cellular Regulation of Nitric Oxide Synthesis in Inflammation; Cellular regulation of misfolded proteins
Mark L Entman, M.D.
- Professor
- mentman@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-4188
Molecular mechanisms of cardiac injury and repair; Chemokines; Progenitor cells
Marta L. Fiorotto, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- martaf@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-7146
Developmental Determinants of Skeletal Muscle Growth
Mostafa Waleed Gaber, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- gaber@bcm.edu
Phone
- (832) 824-3170
Pediatric brain tumor treatment sequelae; Translational imaging paradigm to map bone marrow failure.…
Brian W. Gibson, D.V.M.
- Veterinarian, Clinical
- bwg@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-4048
Craig J Hartley, Ph.D.
- Professor Emeritus
- chartley@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-4188
Amy D. Hanna, Ph.D.
- Instructor
- amy.hanna@bcm.edu
Excitation-contraction coupling; Cardiac and skeletal muscle physiology; Mechanisms of disease in cardiac and skeletal muscle; Calcium signalling…
Sandra Barbara Haudek, M.S., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- shaudek@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3388
Medical Educator, Students and Faculty; Cardiac Inflammation and Fibrosis; Stem Cells; TNF
Frank T. Horrigan, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- horrigan@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-4675
Joseph Michael Hyser, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- joseph.hyser@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-4514
Enteric Virus Calcium Channel Blockers; Exploitation of Host Calcium Signaling Pathways by Microbes…
Jason M. Karch
- Assistant Professor
- karch@bcm.edu
William R. Lagor, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- William.Lagor@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-8666
Lipid and lipoprotein metabolism; Cardiovascular Sciences; Gene therapy vectors for the study and treatment of metabolic disease
Irina V. Larina, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- larina@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3974
Biomedical Imaging; Cardiovascular Sciences; Cell and Developmental Biology; Human Disease
Chang Seok Lee, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- changsel@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5719
Ca2+ channel-mediated events in skeletal muscle and whole body metabolism
Scott Anthony LeMaire, M.D., FACS
- Professor and Vice-Chair for Research
Na Li, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- nal@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-2335
To investigate novel molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac arrhythmias and cardiomyopathy.
Chih-Wei Logan Hsu, Ph.D.
- Imaging Specialist
- loganh@bcm.edu
James F Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor
- jfmartin@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5931
Cell and Developmental Biology; Molecular Biology and Genetics; Human Disease; Cardiovascular Sciences
Lloyd H Michael, Ph.D.
- Sr Associate Dean
- lmichael@bcm.edu
myocardial contraction; myocardial ischemia and reperfusion; heart lymphatics; inflammation's role in heart damage
Christina Y. Miyake, M.D., M.S.
- Associate Professor
Inherited Arrhythmic Sudden Cardiac Death Syndromes: Long QT syndrome, Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, Brugada Syndrome, Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy…
Xiaodong Mu
- Instructor
- xmu@bcm.edu
Charles R Neblett, M.D.
- Clin Prof Emeritus
- cneblett@bcm.edu
Joel Neilson, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- neilson@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-8851
Molecular Biology and Genetics; Cell and Developmental Biology; Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression; Human Disease
Peter Norsk, M. D., dr. med. (Ph.D)
- Professor
- norsk@bcm.edu
Phone
- (281) 244-5404
Human cardiovascular and fluid and electrolyte balance regulations; Gravity, hydrostatics and cardiovascular effects; Cardio-renal interactions…
Robia G Pautler, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- rpautler@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3892
Gene Expression; Axonal Transport; Biomedical Imaging; Alzheimer's Disease; Neurophysiology
Xinchun Pi, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- xinchun.pi@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5984
Ross A. Poché, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- poche@bcm.edu
Phone
- (832) 788-5835
Tara L. Rasmussen
- Research Associate
- tara.rasmussen@bcm.edu
Russell Scott Ray, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- russell.ray@bcm.edu
We study the molecular and genetic events that give rise to functional neural circuits and how those events may play a role in neurological disorders
George Gerald Rodney Jr., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- rodney@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5797
Biomedical Imaging; Cardiovascular Sciences; Cell and Developmental Biology; Human Disease; Skeletal Muscle Physiology
Daryl Armstrong Scott, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
Phone
- (832) 822-4280
Identifying and characterizing genes responsible for common birth defects
Ergun Sahin, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- esahin@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-6685
Telomere function, aging and cancer biology
Md. Abul Hassan Samee, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- samee@bcm.edu
Machine Learning; Comparative Genomics; Transcriptional Regulation; Chromatin Organization; Application of computational genomics in tissue regeneration and cancer
Richard N Sifers, Ph.D.
- Professor
- rsifers@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3169
Glycobiology; Secretory Pathway; Protein Biosynthetic Quality Control; Conformational Disease; Alpha1-antitrypsin Deficiency; Disease Modifiers…
George E Taffet, M.D.
- Robert J. Luchi, M.D. Chair
- gtaffet@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3967
Heart failure: Calcium and aging; Vascular aging; Physiology and Biochemistry: using mouse models of human aging and disease
Addison A Taylor, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor
- ataylor@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-4721
Qiang Tong, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- qtong@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-6716
Molecular mechanism of life span extension by caloric restriction; Adipose formation and function during obesity and diabetes…
Vinod Vijayan, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- vvijayan@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 770-1822
Serine/Threonine phosphatases in platelet and endothelial activation
Christopher Ward, Ph.D.
- Instructor/Director Mouse Metabolic and Phenotyping Core
- christopher.ward@bcm.edu
Rett Syndrome; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Animal Behavior and Physiology; Data Analysis and Management; Phenotyping
Xander Wehrens, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor
- wehrens@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-4700
Biochemistry and Biophysics; Cardiovascular Sciences; Human Disease
Samuel Miao-Sin Wu, Ph.D.
- Professor and Camille and Raymond Hankamer Chair in Ophthalmology
- swu@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-5966
Joshua D. Wythe, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- joshua.wythe@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-3657
Vascular Development; Cardiac Development; Transcriptional Regulation of Organogenesis; Cardiovascular Disease
Lilei Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- lilei.zhang@bcm.edu
Genetic and Epigenetic regulation of heart failure and cardiomyopathies
Pumin Zhang, Ph.D.
- Professor
- pzhang@bcm.edu
Phone
- (713) 798-1866
Cell and Developmental Biology; Human Disease; Molecular Biology and Genetics