Contact Information:

Ms. Lanette Flagge
Academic Advisor

Ronald Balczon, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Studies

BMS Graduate Program
MSB 3030
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
(251)460-6153
lflagge@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
rbalczon@usouthal.edu

Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi, M.D., Ph.D.
Mechanotransduction in vascular endothelial cells.

Mikhail Alexeyev, Ph.D.
Mitochondrial DNA and oxidative damage in vascular endothelium, vascular morphogenesis.

Ronald D. Balczon, Ph.D.
The microtubule cytoskeleton, centrosomes, microtubule motors, and the regulation of cell proliferation and mitosis.

Stephen T. Ballard, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of airway epithelial ion transport and mucociliary clearance; cystic fibrosis.

Brian W. Fouty, M.D.
Neutrophils and regulation of acute lung injury.

Jane D. Funkhouser, Ph.D.
Regulation of lung epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation.

Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D.
Pulmonary hypertension and molecular signaling mechanisms in pulmonary smooth muscle.

Johnson Haynes, Jr., M.D.
Pulmonary circulation and acute lung injury.

Richard E. Honkanen, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms of tumor promotion and carcinogenesis: Determining the roles of protein phosphatases in the regulation of normal and aberrant cellular proliferation.

Stephen G. Kayes, Ph.D.
Host immunologic responses to parasitic infection, with emphasis on mechanisms relating to the regulation of pulmonary granuloma formation in toxocariasis; relationship of eosinophilia to asthma.

Judy King, M.D., Ph.D.
Pulmonary pathology and structure-function relationships.

Susan P. LeDoux, Ph.D.
Role of environmental agents in the etiology of cancer; cellular responses to DNA damage; mechanisms of DNA damage and repair.

Thomas Lincoln, Ph.D.
Cyclic GMP and regulation of vascular smooth muscle.

Solomon Ofori-Acquah, Ph.D.
Role of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) and p38 mitogen activating protein kinase signalling pathways in gamma globin regulation

Jack W. Olson, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.

James C. Parker, Ph.D.
Role of stretch-activated cation channels in acute lung endothelial injury.

Kane L. Schaphorst, M.D.
Regulation of lung endothelial barrier function.

Troy Stevens, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.

Mary I. Townsley, Ph.D.
Adaptive remodeling of lung structure and function in chronic heart failure; microcirculation.

Richard M. Whitehurst, M.D.
Neonatal cardiac development.

Glenn Wilson, Ph.D.
Impact of aging and diabetes on DNA damage and repair.

Songwei Wu, Ph.D.
Regulation of lung endothelial calcium entry.

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