H. Richard Adams, DVM, PhD
Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Phone:979-845-5053
Email: radams@cvm.tamu.edu
Circulatory shock; myocardial and vascular dysfunction in endotoxemia; role of nitric oxide in vasoregulation.

Gianfranco D. Alpini, PhD
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone:254-742-7044
Email: GAlpini@medicine.tamhsc.edu
CV (PDF)
Functional heterogeneity of the intrahepatic biliary tree; hormonal, cholinergic, and adrenergic regulation of secretory and proliferative processes.

Kenneth M. Baker, MD
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone:254-743-2763
Email: kbaker@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Signaling pathways in cardiac myocytes; mechanisms of cardiac cell growth; angiotensin and cardiac hypertrophy.

Troy A. Baudino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-743-0996
Email: baudino@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Vascular remodeling during cardiac hypertrophy; Cell-cell interactions; Changes in the cardiac cell populations during development and disease; Colorectal cancer

Kayla J. Bayless, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Lab: 979-845-7287
Phone: 979-845-7205
Email:kbayless@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Molecular signals that regulate endothelial cell invasion in three-dimensional matrices; ocular angiogenesis.

Gregory J. Bix, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Phone:979-862-7613
Email: gjbix@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Vascular matrix biology, stroke

Clifford J. Buckley, MD
Professor
Department of Surgery
Phone:254-724-5975
Email: cbuckley@swmail.sw.org
Peripheral vascular disease; intravascular ultrasonography; quality/cost control issues in practice of vascular surgery.

Ed W. Childs, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
Phone:254-724-5638
Email: ewchilds@medicine.tamhsc.edu
CV (PDF)
Hemorrhagic shock; microvascular permeability; leukocyte/endothelial interactions; oxygen radicals and PAF in microvascular dysfunction.

Gerard L Cote, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 979-845-4196
Email: cote@tamu.edu
Optical sensing and spectroscopy, optical diagnostics, biomedical imaging, development of non-invasive sensors

John C. Criscione, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 979-845-5428
Email: jccriscione@tamu.edu
Cardiac mechanics; constitutive mechanics; computational mechanics; cellular mechanics.

Stephen F. Crouse, PhD
Professor
Kinesiology Division
Department of Health and Kinesiology
Phone: 979-845-3997
Email: s-crouse@tamu.edu
Cardiovascular risk factors; blood lipid profiles in sedentary and exercising subjects.

Timothy A. Cudd, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Phone: 979-862-1972
Email: t-cudd1@tamu.edu
Reflex control of cardiovascular and endocrine systems in the adult and the fetus

Gregory J. Dehmer, MD
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-724-6713
Email: gdehmer@swmail.sw.org
Platelets, thrombosis and myocardial infarction; national standards for interventional cardiology practice and training.

David E. Dostal, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-743-2464
Email: ddostal@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Regulation and functional role of the cardiac renin-angiotensin system.

Theresa W. Fossum, DVM, PhD
Professor
Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery
Phone: 979-845-2351
Email: t-fossum@tamu.edu
Cardiovascular surgery; animal models of cardiovascular disease; chylothorax; lymphatic system; evaluation of artificial heart performance.

Arthur E. Frankel, MD
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone:254-724-2111
Email: afrankel@swmail.sw.org
Preclinical and clinical evaluation of recombinant peptide toxins: vascular leak syndrome (VLS) associated with exposure to circulating peptide toxins in vivo; effects of anthrax toxins on the animal and human cardiovascular system; and targeting peptide toxins to tumor vasculature.

Anatoliy A. Gashev, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 254-742-7147
Email: gashev@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Lymphatic physiology, mechanisms of lymphatic pumping, behavior of human lymphatics.

Harris J. Granger, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-845-7816
Email: granger@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Angiogenesis; microvascular permeability; growth factor signaling; genomics; computer simulation of biological processes.

Rakeshwar Guleria, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-743-4915
Email: rsguleria@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Shaodong Guo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-743-1222
Email: sguo@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Foxo1, Foxo3, insulin signaling, mitochondrial function, pancreatic beta cell function

Sudhiranjan Gupta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-743-2465
Email: sgupta@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Mariah Hahn, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Phone:979-845-3361
Email: mariah.hahn@che.tamu.edu
Cell-cell and cell-material interactions at a fundamental level; controlling material, mechanical, and chemical properties at the microscale; vocal fold regeneration; vascular tissue engineering

Cristine L. Heaps, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology
Phone: 979-458-0753
Email: cheaps@cvm.tamu.edu
Cellular and functional adaptations in the coronary circulation in response to coronary artery disease and exercise training; specifically the adaptive responses of both smooth muscle ion channels and endothelial nitric oxide regulation in the regulation of coronary artery function with disease and exercise training.

Travis W. Hein, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Phone: 254-724-3550
Email: thein@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Physiology and pathophysiology of coronary and retinal microcirculation; metabolic regulation of microvascular blood flow; nitric oxide and microvascular function; influence of antioxidants/oxidative stress on microvascular vasomotor function

Jay D. Humphrey, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 979-845-5558
Email: jhumphrey@tamu.edu
Cardiovascular mechanics; engineering analysis of vascular remodeling and growth in hypertension; mechanics of aneurysms.

Wonmuk Hwang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Phone: 979-458-0178
Email: hwm@tamu.edu
Computer simulation and theoretical modeling of biomolecular self-assembly and mechanics; amyloid fibrillogenesis; biofilament mechanics; collagen dynamics; cytoskeletal mechanics; kinesin motility; molecular motors

Roland Kaunas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Phone:979-845-2412
Email: rkaunas@bme.tamu.edu
Mechanical properties of cells; regulation of mechanotransduction via cytoskeletal reorganization; angiogenesis; cell-matrix interactions.

Rajesh Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone:254-743-1203
Email: kumar@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Regulation of gene expression in cardiac hypertrophy, transcription factors, cluster analysis of genomic responses.

Lih Kuo, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone:254-742-7041
Email: lkuo@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Regulation of coronary microvascular function; endothelium and vascular smooth-muscle biology; atherosclerosis and ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Glen A. Laine, PhD
Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Phone: 979-845-7261
Email: glaine@tamu.edu
Microvascular, interstitial and lymphatic interactions in regulating myocardial fluid balance; myocardial edema and fibrosis; left ventricular mechanics.

Mingyao Liu, PhD
Associate Professor
IBT Center for Cancer Biology and Nutrition
713-677-7505 (office)
713-677-7535 (lab)
Email: mliu@ibt.tamhsc.edu
G-protein signaling of cell growth, differentiation and apoptosis; vascular smooth muscle contraction

Ronald D. MacFarlane, PhD
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Phone: 979-845-2021
Email: macfarlane@mail.chem.tamu.edu
Application of ionization mass spectrometry and capillary electrophoresis to problems related to human medicine; lipoprotein profiling and coronary vascular disease.

James F. Martin, PhD
Professor
Center for Cancer Biology and Nutrition
Phone: 713-677-7558
Email: jmartin@ibt.tamhsc.edu
Homeobox genes; vertebrate embryogenesis; cardiac development; mouse genetics.

Michael P. Massett, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Health and Kinesiology
Phone: 979-862-4687
Email: mmassett@hlkn.tamu.edu
Genomic/genetic approaches to identify genes associated with exercise training, physiological adaptations to exercise training as they relate to markers of chronic disease, endothelial function, vascular remodeling

Steven A. Maxwell, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Phone:979-845-7206
Email: s-maxwell@tamu.edu
Cancer; oncogenes; tumor suppressor genes; apoptosis; angiogenesis.

Wallace McKeehan, PhD
Professor
IBT Center for Cancer Biology and Nutrition
Phone: 713-677-7522
Email: wmckeehan@ibt.tamhsc.edu
Molecular signaling through fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factors, prostate cancer, cardiovascular diseases, liver regeneration, plant products for the prevention and treatment of cancer

Catherine McNeal, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-724-9799
Email: cmcneal@swmail.sw.org
Lipid profiling using mass spectrometry and capillary electrophoresis; hypercholesterolemia in children.

Cynthia J. Meininger, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 254-742-7037
Email: cjm@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Physiologic control of angiogenesis; vascular complications in diabetes; nitric oxide production and proliferation of endothelial cells; mast cell modulation of tumor angiogenesis.

Matthew M. Miller, DVM
Professor
Department of Veterinary Small Animal Medicine and Surgery
Phone: 979-845-2351
Email: m-miller36622@tamu.edu
Cardiomyopathies; color Doppler ultrasonography

Brett M. Mitchell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone:254-742-6267
Email: bmitchell@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Endothelial cell and vascular biology; regulation of arterial blood pressure; role of intracellular calcium and nitric oxide in hypertension caused by immunosuppressive drugs and pregnancy; transgenic mouse models of hypertension

James E. Moore, Jr., PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Phone:979-845-3299
Email: jmoorejr@tamu.edu
Cardiovascular mechanics, hemodynamics, restenosis, stents

Mariappan Muthuchamy, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone:979-847-9251
Email: marim@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Structure and function relationship of contractile proteins - a transgenic approach; molecular and physiological mechanisms of cardiac muscle contraction.

Nandini Nair, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Email: nanair@swmail.sw.org
Diastolic dysfunction, biomarker identification, proteomic profiling; transplantation arteriosclerosis

Jing Pan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone:254-743-2461
Email: jpan@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Role of rho, MAP kinases and PKC isoforms in cardiac hypertrophy retinoids, glycogen synthase kinase, and the dual-specificity phosphatase MKP-1 as negative modulators of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy

Janet L. Parker, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-458-1033
Email: jlp@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Chronic coronary occlusion and collateral development; exercise training; vascular dysfunction in shock and sepsis.

Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 254-742-7033
Email: xpeng@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Cardiac and vascular development; angiogenesis and vasculogenesis

Thomas V. Peterson, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-845-7483
Email: tvp@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Neural and hormonal control of blood volume and renal function

Christopher M. Quick, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Phone: 979-845-2645
Email: cquick@tamu.edu
Quantitative cardiovascular physiology; cardiovascular remodeling and simulation; arterial hemodynamics and pulse wave phenomena

J. James Rohack, MD
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-724-5593
Email: jrohack@swmail.sw.org
Cardiovascular performance in exercising humans; blood lipids and lipoproteins in exercising males and females.

Robert H. Rosa, Jr., MD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
Phone: 254-724-5541
Email: rrosa@swmail.sw.org
Retinal vasoregulation; retinal and choroidal neovascularization; macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy

H. Wayne Sampson, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-774-5680
Email: sampson@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Bone biology; genomic responses to bone injury; laser capture microdissection

Robert C. Scott, III, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Phone: 254-724-7286
Email: rcscott@swmail.sw.org
Mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyopathies; myocarditis; renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in cardiovascular disease; endothelial function/mechanisms of dysfunction; mechanisms of atherogenesis; evaluation and manipulation of endogenous cardiac stem cells.

Rajat Sethi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy- Kingsville
Phone: 361-593-4275
Email: kfrs002@tamuk.edu
Cardiac signal transduction in ischemia/reperfusion injury, myocardial ischemia, heart failure, hypertension and diabetes using Langendorff isolated rat heart preparation, cardiac myocytes as well as in-vivo models of heart failure.

John N. Stallone, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Phone: 979-862-3065
Email: jstallone@cvm.tamu.edu
Humoral interactions between vascular smooth muscle and endothelium; genomic and non-genomic effects of gonadal steroid hormones on vascular function.

Randolph Stewart, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Phone: 979-862-7764
Email: r-230@tamu.edu
Lymphatic function; microvascular and interstitial fluid dynamics; synovial fluid balance; cardiac function.

George Stoica, DVM, PhD
Professor
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
Phone: 979-845-5089
Email: gstoica@cvm.tamu.edu
Cancer biology; growth factors; tumor angiogenesis; immunohistochemical analysis of peripheral arteries after balloon angioplasty.

Carl Tong, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 254-742-7033

Andreea Trache, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-845-7990
Email: trache@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Development and integration of novel microscopy techniques applied to monitoring molecular dynamics in live cells

Jerome P. Trzeciakowski, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-845-2847
Email: jpt@tamu.edu
Biomathematics; nonlinear dynamics, signal processing techniques and time series analysis; theoretical analysis of signal transduction mechanisms; chaotic mapping and genomic patterns.

Vincent VanBuren, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone:254-742-7005
Email: vanburen@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Biocomputing; biological network reconstruction from high-throughput data; microarray analysis; Monte Carlo simulations; biological sequence analysis

Fen Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Cancer Biology and Nutrition
Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Phone: 713-677-7520
Email: fwang@ibt.tamhsc.edu
The role of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and FGF receptor (FGFR) in liver, cardiovascular, wound healing and prostate disease.

Jeremy S. Wasser, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Phone: 979-862-4655
Email: j-wasser@tamu.edu
Comparative cardiovascular physiology; biological applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy; mechanisms of hypoxia tolerance in turtle heart.

Emily Wilson, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-862-8673
Email: emilyw@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Mechanical forces as regulators of smooth-muscle phenotype; signal transduction through integrin-extracellular matrix system; regulation of integrin expression in endothelial cells.

Christopher R. Woodman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Health and Kinesiology
Phone: 979-845-0515
Email: woodmanc@hlkn.tamu.edu
Vascular physiology, exercise physiology; interactive effects of aging and exercise training on skeletal muscle vascular beds; adaptation of endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells to aging

Steven M. Wright, PhD
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Phone: 979-845-9413
Email: wright@ee.tamu.edu
Theory and application of array coils in magnetic resonance spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy for monitoring cardiac energetics in vivo.

Guoyao Wu, PhD
Professor
Department of Animal Science
Phone: 979-845-2714
Email: g-wu@tamu.edu
Arginine metabolism and vascular function; regulation of vascular cell proliferation by nitric oxide, glutamine, and polyamines.

Xin Wu, MD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-845-9771
Email: xinwu@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Functional studies in cardiovascular system using electrophysiology, atomic force microscopy, immunofluorescence and force measurements etc; integrin-dependent regulation of ion channels; mechanosensitive ion channels.

David C. Zawieja, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-845-7465
Email: dcz@tamu.edu
CV (PDF)
Microvascular exchange; lymphatic microcirculation; lymphangiogenesis; regulation of calcium within vascular cells.

Shenyuan Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 254-742-7066
Email: shenyuan.zhang@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Calcium channels, calcium signaling, immune disease

Warren E. Zimmer, PhD
Professor
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Phone: 979-845-2896
Email: wezimmer@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Smooth muscle differentiation; gene expression and transcription factors; transgenic mouse models; stem cell biology