Broad Categories:

Viral – Jean Patterson, Ph.D., Ricardo Carrion, Jr., Ph.D., Andrew Hayhurst, Ph.D., Olena Shtanko, Ph.D., Suzette Tardif, Ph.D.

Bacterial –Larry Schlesinger, M.D., Jordi Torrelles, Ph.D., Joanne Turner, Ph.D., Robert Lanford, Ph.D.

Fungi – Larry Schlesinger, M.D.

Parasite – Tim Anderson, Ph.D., Ian Cheeseman, Ph.D.

Human Population Health Issues – Shelley Cole, Ph.D., Mel Carless, Ph.D., Suzette Tardif, Ph.D.

Nonhuman Primates – Robert Lanford, Ph.D., Suzette Tardif, Ph.D., Deepak Kaushal, Ph.D., Corinna Ross, Ph.D.

Stem Cells – Marcel Daadi, Ph.D., Tiziano Barberi, Ph.D.

Specific Topics of Expertise:

Tim Anderson, Ph.D.: Malaria, Schistosomiasis, any parasitic disease

Eusondia Arnett, Ph.D.: Tuberculosis, macrophages

Tiziano Barberi, Ph.D.: Development of retinal diseases, muscular dystrophy, human diseases that can be fixed with gene therapy/stem cells

Raul Bastarrachea, M.D.: Diabetes, obesity, metabolism

John Bernal, D.V.M, Kathy Brasky, M.S., V.M.D, Elizabeth Clemmons, D.V.M, Edward Dick, D.V.M.: Animal disease/veterinary health issues

Ricardo Carrion, Jr., Ph.D.: BSL4 labs, Ebola, Marburg, drug testing

Mel Carless, Ph.D.: Psychiatric diseases, genetics/genomics

Frederic Chevalier, Ph.D.: Schistosomiasis, parasitic diseases

Geoffrey Clarke, Ph.D. (UT Health): Imaging

Shelley Cole, Ph.D.: Heart disease, population health and genetics, diabetes, chronic conditions

Marcel Daadi, Ph.D.: Stem cells, Parkinson’s disease

Marie-Claire Gauduin, Ph.D.: Tuberculosis, HIV, pediatrics, vaccines

Luis Giavedoni, Ph.D.: HIV, immunology

Jack Kent, Jr., Ph.D.: Computational biology

Smita Kulkarni, Ph.D.: HIV, small non-coding RNAs, microRNAs, DNA or RNA structure

Corrine Lutz, Ph.D., Corinna Ross, Ph.D.: Animal behavior

Corinna Ross, Ph.D.: Aging

Ruth Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D.: HIV – vaccines, therapeutics, mechanism of infection

Larry Schlesinger, M.D.: Clinical infections (all bacteria and fungi)

Olena Shtanko, Ph.D.: Ebola, cell entry