Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland

Center for AIDS Research

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Donald Anthony, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case School of Medicine
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.844.2542
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Research Interests:  Hepatitis C, T cell biology and rheumatic diseases

 

 

 

 

Wendy Armstrong, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Stop: S32
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.445.5793
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Website
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; tropical medicine; cns infections

 

 

 

Eric Arts, PhD  
Associate Professor, Case School of Medicine
Dept. of Infectious Diseases
10900 Euclid Avenue
Biomedical Research Building, 10th Floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4984
216.368.8904

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Research Interests
Retrovirology; HIV-1 evolution and 
drug resistance

 

 


Mary Barkley, PhD
Professor, Case School of Medicine
Department of Chemistry
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4970
216.368.0602
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Research Interests:
structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules; studying enzymes from two viruses: the AIDS virus, HIV-1, and the hepatitis C virus, HCV

 

 

 

Nathan Berger, MD
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Oncology
Dean of Case School of Medicine
Case School of Medicine, T106
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.2059
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Website
Research Interests: cellular, biochemical and molecular responses to DNA damage in eukaryotic systems, how these differ between normal and malignant cells and how they can be modulated to enhance therapeutic strategies for selected tumor cell killing

 

 

Robert A. Bonomo, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Case School of Medicine
Section Chief, Infectious Diseases
Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC
10701 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.791.4399
Email
Website
Research Interests: antibotic resistance; understanding the genetic and amino acid sequence determinants of β-lactamases, the enzymes that inactivate β-lactams.

 

 

W. Henry Boom, MD 
Professor, Case School of Medicine
Director, Tuberculosis Research Unit
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.4844    

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Website
Research Interests:  Tuberculosis, T cells

 

 

Elaine A. Borawski, PhD 
Associate Professor, Case School of Medicine 
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Director, Center for Health Promotion Research
10900 Euclid Avenue 
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4945
216.368.1617
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Website
Research Interests: health behavior interventions (HIV prevention); adolescent health (teen pregnancy prevention) survey methodology; health status measurement;  outcome-based community evaluations

 


 

 

 

 

Leslie Bruggeman, PhD
Associate Professor
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
MetroHealth Medical Center
Rammelkamp Bldg., Room 429
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, Ohio    44109
216.778.7603
Email
Website
Research Interests: molecular and cell biology, urinary system; kidney disease;  HIV-associated nephropathy

 

 

 

Leonard H. Calabrese, DO 
Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
RJ Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology
Vice Chairman, Dept. of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk A50
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.444.5258
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Website
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; Hepatitis C

 

 

 

 

 

David H. Canaday, MD
Assistant Professor, Case Division of Infectious Diseases
Staff Physician, Louis Stokes VA Medical Center
Case Department of Medicine
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Office: 216.368.8901

Laboratory: 216.368.0344
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Research Interests: immunology of tuberculosis; mechanisms of killing of TB in macrophages; antigen processing in antigen presenting cells from HIV+ donors;

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Carey, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue, Room W427
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.3419
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Website
Research Interests:  relationship of structure to function, with special emphasis on achieving a precise understanding of enzyme catalysis

 

Cheng-Ming Chiang, PhD
Associate Professor
Case Dept of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
10900 Euclid Avenue, LC 4960
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.8550
Email
Website
Research Interests: mechanisms of transcriptional reuglation in Mammalian cells and in Human Papillomaviruses

 

 

 

Michael W. Cho, PhD
Assistant Professor, 
Division of Infectious Diseases
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.1221
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Website
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Research Interests: HIV, SARS, Smallpox, West Nile Virus, Vaccine Development
Peter Cohen, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Stop: NE62
Cleveland, Ohio  44195
216.445.3800
Email
Website
Research Interests: immunotherapy



Catherine Demko, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Community Dentistry
Case School of Dental Medicine, Rm3590
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.8804
Email
Mireya Diaz-Insua, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Case School of Medicine, Wood Bldg, WG-51
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.0442
Email
Research Interests:  epidemiology and biostatistics
Clark W. Distelhorst, MD
Charles S. Britton II Professor of Hematology/Oncology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue/Mail Stop LOC: 7248
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.1176
Email
Website
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Research Interests: how glucorticosteroid hormones induce apoptosis; how Bcl-2 inhibits apoptosis

 

Dennis Drotar, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Psychology & Psychiatry
Case Western Reserve University
Chief, Division of Behavioral Pediatrics & Psychology
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.844.3230
Email
Website
Research Interests: quality of life outcomes in pediatric chronic illness interventions to promote adherence to treatment in pediatric chronic illness; influences on the psychological adjustment of pediatric chronic illness




Richard Eckert, PhD
Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Case School of Medicine/E544
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4970
216.368.5530
Email
Website
Research Interests: gene regulation and structural protein function in keratinocytes

 

 

Robert L. Fairchild, PhD
Staff
Department of Immunology
Lerner Research Institute/NB30
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.444.3146
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Website
Research Interests:  skin disease, skin and cardiac allograft rejection, T cell recruitment to inflammation in peripheral tissues

 

 

 

James H. Finke, PhD
Staff
Department of Immunology
Lerner Research Institute/NE40
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44195
216.444.5186
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Website
Research Interests:  tumor immunity, T lymphocytes, signal transduction and transcription factors

 

 

 

Koh Fujinaga, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.5259
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Website
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Research Interests: transcriptional regulation of HIV; cellular co-factors required for HIV replication

 

 

 

 

Scott A. Fulton, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.8900
Email
Website
Research Interests: mycobacterial infections, immunology, lung macrophage functions

 

 

Philip P. Garner, PhD
Professor of Chemistry
Case Department of Chemistry
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7078
216.368.2603
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Website
Research Interests:  design and synthesis of biologically active molecules as well as the development of new enabling chemistries

 

 

Mahmoud Ghannoum, PhD, EMBA
Professor of Dermatology
Director, Center for Medical Mycology
Co-Director, Skin Diseases Research Center
11100 Euclid Avenue/Mail Stop LOC: 4926
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.844.8580
Email
Website
Research Interests: medical mycology; fungal pathogenesis; molecular biology; oral complications of AIDS/HIV; microbial biofilm

 

 

 

Nahida H. Gordon, PhD
Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
Professor of Bioethics, School of Medicine
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-4976
216.368.0726
Email
Website
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Research Interests: survival analysis methodologies, with emphasis on using mixture distributions to analyze data where there are significant competing risks of mortality
Neil S. Greenspan, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Pathology 
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-1280
216.368.1280
Email
Website
Research Interests: Immunological recognition, vaccine efficacy, mechanisms of immunity to bacterial  pathogens at a molecular level, pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus in murine models

 

 

 

 

Barbara Gripshover, MD
Associate Professor, 
Division of Infectious Diseases
Case School of Medicine
Medical Director, John T. Carey Special Immunology Unit, University Hospitals
2061 Cornell Road, 4th Floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-5083
216.844.5876
Email
Website
Research Interests: antiviral therapy including salvage therapy; complications of antiviral therapy

 

 

 

 

Thomas A. Hamilton, PhD
Chairman
Department of Immunology
Lerner Research Center/NB30
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.444.6246
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Research Interests: analysis of mechanisms regulating inflammatory gene expression in mononuclear phagocytes; analysis of stimulus-dependent control of chemokine and cytokine mRNA stability

 

 

Clifford V. Harding, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.5059
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Website
Research Interests: immunology, antigen processing, major histocompatibility complex, microbial immunity, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, tumor immunity, vaccine, adjuvant, Toll-like receptor; cell biology, endocytosis, phagocytosis

 

Marion Helfand, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case Depts of Medicine and Biochemistry
Staff Physician, Louis Stokes Veterans AMC
10701 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.791.3800 EXT. 4672
Email
Website
Research Interests: structural biology of antimicrobial resistance

 

 

Thomas M. Hering, PhD
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Anatomy
Case Western Reserve University
University Hospitals of Cleveland
11100 Euclid Avenue/Mail Stop LOC: 4947
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.1375
Email
Website
Research Interests: cartilage extracellular matrix biochemistry and molecular biology; transcriptional regulation of chondrogenesis

 

 

Christina Hirsch, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case School of Medicine, E202
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.0441
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Research Interests: immune response during human tuberculosis (TB); particularly cytokine responses to M. tuberculosis (MTB) and its components and their role in depressed anti-MTB defense mechanisms in the in the peripheral blood and at the site most commonly affected by TB, the lung




Amy Hise, MD
Senior Instructor, Center for Global Health & Diseases
Wolstein Research Building, Rm 4129
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.6053
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Website
Research Interests: 

 

 

Sharona Hoffman, J.D., LL.M
Professor of Law and Bioethics
Co-Director, Law-Medicine Center
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Case Law School - Gund Hall
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.3860
Email
Website
Research Interests:  employment discrimination; health insurance; disability law; biomedical research; concept of race and its use in law and medicine 

 

 

Yung T. Huang, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.844.8611

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Website
Research Interests: Mucosal immunology; IgA; HIV; Measles virus Virus Infection; Pathogenesis; prevention and  vaccine development
Carlos Isada, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Code: S32
Cleveland, Ohio  44195
216.444.2762
Email
Website
Research Interests:  clinical virology; infection; medical education

 

 

James Jacobberger, PhD
Professor, Case Comprehensive CancerCenter
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue, LOC #7285
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.4645
Email

Research Interests:  cell cycle regulation and tumorigenesis
Michael R. Jacobs, MD, PhD
Professor
Director, Clinical Microbiology, 
Dept. of Pathology, PTH 5077
Case Medical Center
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.844.3484
Email
Website
Research Interests:  antimicrobial susceptibility testing; streptococcus pneumonia; haemophilus influenza; respiratory tract infections

 

 

John L. Johnson, MD
Professor, Case School of Medicine
Staff Physician, University Hospitals of Cleveland
2061 Cornell Road/LOC 5083
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-5083
216.844.2646
Email
Website
Research Interests: tuberculosis; HIV/AIDS; phase I, II, and III IND and non-IND clinical trials of new drugs, immunotherapeutic agents and vaccines for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis

 

Robert C. Kalayjian, MD
Director, Division of Infectious Disease
MetroHealth Medical Center
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, Ohio  44109
216.778.5295
Email
Website
Research Interests:  HIV clinical care; AIDS and aging
David R. Kaplan, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.1279
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Website
Research Interests: immunology, flow cytometry, enzymatic amplification staining, cytotoxicity, virology, human immunodeficiency virus, herpes simplex virus, Epstein-Barr virus

 

Jonathan Karn, PhD
Reinberger Professor, Chair
Case Dept of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
Associate Director, Case Center for AIDS Research
10900 Euclid Avenue, LC 4960
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.3915
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Website
Research Interests: control of gene expression in HIV

 

 

 

 

James W. Kazura, MD
Professor, International Health and Medicine
Director, Case Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Wolstein Research Building, Room 4129
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.4810
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Website
Research Interests: advancing fundamental knowledge of the mechanisms underlying susceptibility to infection and the pathogenesis of disease due to malaria and chronic worm infections endemic in tropical areas of the world

 

Young-Kyeung Kim, PhD
Instructor
Case Dept of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
10900 Euclid Avenue, LC4960
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.1631
Email
Website
Research Interests:  roles of RNA polymerase phosphorylation and NF-KB in regulating HIV transcription

 

 

Christopher L. King, MD, PhD
Professor of International Health, Medicine and Pathology
Center for Global Health & Diseases
Wolstein Research Building, Room 4132
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.4817
Email
Website
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Research Interests: mechanisms of acquired immunity and pathogenesis in maleria, schistosomiasis and filariasis; impact of parasitic co-infections on HIV

 

 

Gilles Klopman, PhD
Charles F. Mabery Professor of Research in Chemistry, Oncology & Environmental Health Sciences
Case Department of Chemistry
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7078
216.368.3618
Email
Website
Research Interests: experimental determination of reactivity indices and substituent constants; development of reactivity theories

John Kuchtey, PhD
Instructor, Dept. of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.1266

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Research Interests: Immunology; Interferon-αβ; HIV; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; dendritic cells; Antigen processing and presentation; Toll-like receptors; Immunostimulatory CpG DNA; RNA

 


Michael E. Lamm, MD
Professor 
Department of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.1265
Email
Website
Research Interests: host defense functions of mucosal IgA

 

 

Mary J. Laughlin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Director, Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant Program
Case School of Medicine
Wolstein Research Building, #2101
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio   44106-7284
216.368-5693
Email
Website
Research Interests: genetically modified unrelated umbilical cord blood allogeneic transplantation for patients with HAART resistant advances HIV

Michael M. Lederman, MD
Scott R. Inkley Professor of Medicine 
Director, Case/UH Center for AIDS Research
Principal Investigator, Case/UH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit
Case School of Medicine
Foley Building, 2061 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-5083
216.844.8766
Email

Website
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Research Interests: Mechanisms of immune deficiency; Enhancing immune function in HIV-1 infection; HIV microbicides







Irene Lee, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7078
216.368.6001
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Research Interests: investigating and characterizing the reaction mechanism of metabolic enzymes essential for cellular functions such as protein turnover and nucleic acid metabolism

 

Xavier Lee, PhD
Assistant Staff of Cancer Biology
Cleveland Center for Structural Biology
Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Avenue (NB21)
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.445.7270
Email
Website
Research Interests: protein structure and interaction between proteins and nucleic acid
Paul V. Lehmann, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.1297
Email
Website
Research Interests: ELISPOT research; T cell biology; immunity vs. tolerance; autoimmune disease; anti-tumor immunity; anti-microbial immunity; vaccinations against tumors and microorganisms; immunotherapy of autoimmune disease
Sana Loue, JD, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Bioethics, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Assistant Professor of International Health
Case School of Medicine, WG57
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio    44106
216.368.3743
Email
Website
Research Interests:  HIV and AIDS; bioethics and research; cross-cultural issues
Rhoderick Machekano, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Center for Health Research and Policy
MetroHealth Medical Center
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, Ohio 44109
216.778.1952
Email
Website
Research Interests: design and analysis of observational cohorts; longitudinal models in the context of causal inference for infectious disease drug efficacy trials; statistical methods for dealing with high-dimensional data such as HIV sequence data

Patricia A. Marshall, PhD
Professor of Bioethics
Professor of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Department of Bioethics

10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.6196
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Website
Research Interests: Research Ethics; Cross-cultural issues; HIV and AIDS

 

 

 

 

Grace McComsey, MD
Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Disease and Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Cleveland
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Case School of Medicine
2061 Cornell Road, 4th Floor
Cleveland, Ohio   44106-5083
216.844.2460
Email
Website
Research Interests: disorders of fat and mitochondrial metabolism in HIV; Pediatric HIV
David McDonald, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case Dept of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
10900 Euclid Avenue, LC 4960
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.3715
Email
Website
Research Interests: the movement of HIV within and between cells of the human immune system

 

 

 

Janet W. McGrath, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Case Department of Anthropology
11220 Bellflower Road, #211
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.2287 
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Website
Research Interests: Bi-directional impact of disease on human societies; HIV/AIDS, with emphasis on Uganda, focusing on issues related to risk, transmission, the impact of disease and microbicides
M. Edward Medof, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology, Medicine, General Medical Sciences, and Opthalmology
Case Department of Pathology
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.5434
Email
Website
Research Interests: molecular immunology and immunobiology as they relate to human diseases

 

 

 

Maxwell J. Mehlman, JD
Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law
Professor of Bioethics
Director, Law-Medicine Center
Case School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.3983
Email
Website
Research Interests:  fiduciary nature of the patient-physician relationship; disability law; access to health services under federal entitlement programs; the Humane Genome Project; cognitive enhancement

 

 

Rajeev Mehlotra, PhD
Senior Instructor
Center for Global Health & Diseases
Case School of Medicine
Wolstein Research Building
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.6172
Email
Website
Research Interests:  molecular-based epidemiology of malaria; genetic basis of drug resistance in malaria parasite; pharmacogenetics of antimalarials; association between red blood cell polymorphisms and malaria infection
William C. Merrick, PhD
Professor, Case Dept. of Biochemistry
Mail Stop LOC: 4935
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.3578
Email
Website
Research Interests: protein and enzymes; identification of the eukaryotic translation initiation factors and determination of their sequential utilization in the initiation pathway

 

Howard Meyerson, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology PTH5077
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.1848
Email
Website
Research Interests: hematopathology; lymphoma; leukemia; flow cytometry; phenotype; immunology

 

 

 

John J. Mieyal, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology and Vice Chair
Department of Pharmacology
Case School of Medicine, Wood RT-300
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.3384
Email
Website
Research Interests: molecular mechanisms and physiological implications of enzymes that catalyze thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase (TDOR) reactions 
Ann M. Moormann, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Center for Global Health & Diseases
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Wolstein Research Building, Room 4130
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7286
216.368-5144
Email
Website
Research Interests:  understanding the immuno-genetic mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of protective immunity against malaria during childhood; the influence of malaria infections during childhood on the development and maintenance of T cell immunity to persistent viral co-infections such as EBV and CMV; investigations into the etiology of endemic Burkitt's Lymphoma in Kenyan children, the most prevalent pediatric cancer in equitorial Africa, that is associated with malaria and EBV co-infections.

 

 

 

Pranab Mukherjee, PhD
Instructor, Department of Dermatology
University Hospitals of Cleveland 
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.844.8580
Email
Website
Research Interests: Candida Pathogenesis, Proteomics, Biochemistry
Carol M. Musil, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing
Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Mail Stop LOC  4904
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.8775
Email
Website
Research Interests:  health, stress, coping, and family functioning of grandmothers by caregiver status; stress, mental and physical health of community dwelling older adults by caregiver status; methodological issues

 

Joseph Nadeau, PhD
James H. Jewel Professor and Chair, 
Case Department of Genetics
Biomedical Research Building 731
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.0581
Email
Website
Research Interests: use of laboratory mice as experimental models for identifying disease genes, characterizing the physiological and developmental pathways in which these genes function, and defining interactions among genes and environmental factors
Laura E. Nagy, PhD
Professor, Molecular Medicine
Staff, Gastroenterology and Pathobiology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Pathobiology/NE40
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44195
216.444.4021
Email
Website
Research Interests:  alcohol consumption's contribution to chronic disease, including liver disease and diabetes
John G. Nedrud, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Wolstein Research Building
2103 Cornell Road, Room 5-153
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.1281
Email
Website
Research Interests: helicobacter pylori; vaccines; pathogenesis; mucosal immunology; cholera toxin and mucosal adjuvants; antigen processing; viral immunology

 

 

Nancy Oleinick, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4935
216.368.1117
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Website
Research Interests: regulation of gene expression; the mechanism of photosensitization of cells during Photodynamic Therapy (PDT), a relatively new cancer treatment employing a photosensitizing dye that accumulates in tumors and visible light of the appropriate wavelength

 

Karen Olness, MD
Professor, Case School of Medicine
Founding Director, Rainbow Center for Global Child Health
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospitals
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.4368
Email
Website
Research Interests:  behavioral pediatrics; international child health; HIV in children, cognitive impairment
Jackson Orem, MB, ChB
Director, Uganda Cancer Institute
Makerere University/Mulago Hospital
Upper Mulago Road
PO Box 3935
Kampala, Uganda, Africa
256-041-540410
Email
Research Interests: HIV-associated malignancies and other viral associated malignancies; management of endemic malignancies associated with infections in resource constrained settings

Catherine E. Patterson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case Dept. of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
10900 Euclid Avenue, LC 4960
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.0377
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Website
Research Interests: Virus infection of the CNS; Molecular Virology; Viral Immunology

Philip E. Pellett, PhD
Professor
Case Dept. of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute/NN10
Department of Molecular Genetics

9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.445.8411
Email

Website
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Research Interests: Herpesvirus

 

 

 

Sanjay W. Pimplikar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.1282
Email
Website
Research Interests: membrane trafficking; protein sorting in epithelial cells; Alzheimer's disease; polymeric immunoglobulin receptor

 

 

 

 

Jun Qin, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Code: NB28
Cleveland, Ohio  44195
216.444.5392
Email
Website
Research Interests:  molecular cardiology

 

 

Scot Remick, MD
Professor of Medicine
Co-Leader, Developmental Therapeutics Program, UHC Case Medical Center
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.844.5412
Email
Website
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Research Interests: hematology/oncology; Phase I trials; developmental therapeutics; AIDS malignancies

 

Benigno Rodriguez, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, CFAR Clinical Core
2061 Cornell Road, 4th Floor
Cleveland, Ohio   44106-5083
216.844.2057
Email
Research Interests:  HIV clinical care; HIV/Hepatitis co-infection; data management
Roxana E. Rojas, MD, PhD
Instructor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue, LOC 4984
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.4855
Email
Website
Research Interests: antigen processing and presentation for different T cell subtypes, i.e. CD4+, CD8+ and T cells, in M. tuberculosis infection

 

 

Ellen Rorke, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences
Case School of Medicine, WG19
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.5411
Email
Research Interests:  retinoids, ectocervical cell differentiation, toxicant induced changes in cell differentiation
Allison Ross, MD
University Hospitals of Cleveland
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.844.3644
Email
Research Interests: pediatric infectious diseases; vertical transmission of HIV in the presence of single-dose nevirapine 
Robert A. Salata, MD
Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Medicine
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
University Hospitals of Cleveland
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106- 5083
216.844.6279
Email
Website
Research Interests: international studies in HIV infection; HIV infection in women, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV-1 interactions, vaccine and non-vaccine strategies to prevent HIV infection
Ganes Sen, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Code: NE20
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.444.0636
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Research Interests: molecular virology; mechanism of interferon action; recombinant dna technology; genetic regulation of hypertension

 

Ajay K. Sethi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4945

216.368.0734
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Research Interests: ilicit drug and alcohol use, antiretroviral therapy of adherence, natural history Natural history of and issues related to treatment of HIV infection, infectious diseases

 

 

Scott Sieg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Biomedical Research Building, 10th Floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.1882
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Research Interests: Immune dysfunction in HIV disease; mucosal defensins and adaptive immunity; chronic immune activation in HIV disease
Richard F. Silver, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.1151
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Research Interests: protective human immunity to M. tuberculosis; mechanisms of lymphocyte-mediated killing of M. tuberculosis; interactions of M. tuberculosis strains of varying virulence with human mononuclear phagocytes;  experimental vaccination against tuberculosis; 

 

Robert H. Silverman, PhD
Staff and Professor
Department of Cancer Biology
Lerner Research Institute/NB40
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.444.9650
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Research Interests: innate defense against viruses and cancer; antiviral mechanisms of RNase L; role of RNase L in the biology of prostate cancer; role of phospholipid scramblase in interferon action

 

 

Lynn Singer, PhD
Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Programs
Case Western Reserve University
Adelbert Hall, Room 216
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.4389
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Research Interests:  pediatrics, psychiatry, psychosocial development of  infants, cocaine and low birth weight infants
Mark Singer, PhD
Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106-7164
216.368.6176
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Research Interests:  youth violence; adolescent behavior problems; co-existing drug and mental disorders; community policing 

 

Nora Singer, MD
Associate Professor, Case School of Medicine
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
11100 Euclid Ave
Cleveland , OH 44106
216.844.3237
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Research Interests:  adult and pediatric rheumatology
Sharmon Sollitto, JD
Adjunct Professor of Law
Department Assistant, SAGES Program
Case Western Reserve University
Crawford Hall, Room 103
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7178
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Research Interests:  health care professions; HIV/AIDS and ethics
Catherine M. Stein, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Case School of Medicine
Wolstein Research Building, Room 1302
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7281
216.368.5631
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Research Interests: genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis, HIV, and other infectious and autoimmune disorders; complex multivariate genetic disorders

 

 

Man-Sun Sy, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7288
216.368.1268
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Research Interests: basic, clinical and translational research on prion diseases

 

 

 

Alan Taege, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Stop: S32
Cleveland, Ohio  44195
216.444.5834
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Research Interests:  teaching, HIV, surgical infections

 

 

Magdalena Tary-Lehmann, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Pathology
Case School of Medicine

10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7288
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Research interests: T cell immunity in humans

 

 

 

Philip Toltzis, MD
Associate Professor
Case School of Medicine
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.844.3310
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Research Interests: nosocomial infections in the ICU
Zahra Toossi, MD
Professor of Medicine, Div. of Infectious Diseases
Case School of Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Biomedical Research Building, 10th Floor
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.3940
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Research Interests:  basis for the dysregulation of the immune response during human tuberculosis (TB) with specific focus on cytokine responses to M. tuberculosis (MTB) and its components, and mononuclear phagocytic effector mechanisms; impact of TB on HIV disease with specific focus on mechanisms by which activation of mononuclear cells during tuberculosis and by MTB and its products enhance expression of HIV by latently - or newly infected cells
Marisa Tungsiripat, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Stop: S32
Cleveland, Ohio  44195
216.444.2037
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Research Interests:  metabolic complications of antiretroviral therapy

 

Horst von Recum, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case Department of Biomedical Engineering
Wickenden Building, Room 309
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7207
216.368.5513
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Research Interests:  use of novel stimuli-responsive polymers for use in cell, gene, and drug delivery; tissue engineering blood vessels for use as small diameter implants, or for pre-vascularizing polymer scaffolds for other tissue engineering applications

 

Aaron Weinberg, DMD, PhD
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Biological Sciences
Case School of Dental Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106
216.368.6729
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Research Interests: oral microbiology; studies related to pathogenesis of periodontal bacteria; studies related to antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities of antimicrobial peptides

 

 

Michael Weiss, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Biochemistry
Cowan-Blum Professor of Cancer Research
Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.5991
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Research Interests: control of gene expression, and protein folding and misfolding; links are made to clinical phenotypes or disease mechanisms; studies of gene expression include analysis of mammalian and viral transcription factors

 

Susan Wentz, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Office of Urban Health - Urban AHEC
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106-4956
216.368.5493
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Research Interests: medical student education; university-community partnerships; health communications

 

 

Christopher C. Whalen, MD 
Associate Professor
Director, Division of Epidemiology
Case School of Medicine/Wood Building, WG-37B
11100 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.4192
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Research Interests: Epidemiology of tuberculosis; Interaction of HIV and tuberculosis

 

 

 

Patrick Wintrode, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics
Case School of Medicine - E543
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-4970
216.368.3178
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Research Interests:  macromolecular structure, dynamics and interactions using hydrogen/deuterium exchange and mass spectrometry; the conformational properties of serpins, an important class of protease inhibitors; dynamics and assembly of HIV-1 reverse transcription
Shwu-Yuan Wu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Case Department of Biochemistry
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio   44106
216.368.4712
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Research Interests:  regulation of gene expression; the molecular mechanisms by which HPV E2 transcriptional regulators, working in conjunction with cellular enhancer-binding factors, modulate the expression of viral E6 and E7 oncoproteins in the context of both naked DNA and viral chromatin
Gopala Y. Yadavalli, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Case School of Medicine
Director, Infectious Diseases Clinic
Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC
10701 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.791.3800, x4788
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Research Interests:  HIV infection; sepsis; transplant-associated infections; infective endocarditis

 

 

Yu-Chung Yang, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
Isador Jacob Goodman - Ruth Goodman Blum Professor in Cancer
Case School of Medicine
Wood Building - W353
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.6931
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Research Interests: cytokine signal transduction; transcription factors; hematopoiesis

 

 

 

Belinda Yen-Lieberman, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Mail Code: L40
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
216.444.8844
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Research Interests: tumor immunology; immune regulation; retroviruses; clinical virology

 

 

 

Stuart J. Youngner, MD
Chair, Case Department of Bioethics
Professor of Psychiatry
Case School of Medicine
Department of Bioethics

10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.368.6196
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Research Interests: end of life decisionmaking; organ transplantation; clinical ethics consultation; definition of death

 

 

Peter A. Zimmerman, PhD
Associate Professor
Center for Global Health & Diseases
Case School of Medicine
Wolstein Research Building, Room 4-125
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7286
216.368.0508
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Research Interests: Influence of human and parasitic genetic polymorphism on infection and pathogenesis of microbial pathogens, concentrating on Plasmodium species/malaria and HIV-1/AIDS