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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

Leonard D. Aldes, Ph.D.
Neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of oral motor behavior.

Kai-Ming Chou, Ph.D.
The roles of DNA replication/repair mechanisms on anticancer/antiviral compounds.

Robert B. Chronister, Ph.D.
Cellular and molecular events in neurons and glial cells with aging and Alzheimer's Disease

Stuart D. Critz, Ph.D.
Neuronal responses to oxidative stress.

Anthony L. Gard, Ph.D.
Regulation of CNS cell differentation.

James W. Gaubatz, Ph.D.
Dietary mutagens in cancer.

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.
Relationship of chronic inflammation to carcinogenesis; role of eosinophils in cancer prognosis; naked DNA gene transfer as anti-neoplastic vaccine.

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.

Jonathan G. Scammell, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance; characterization of neuroendocrine phenotype of cancer cells.

Samuel J. Strada, Ph.D.
Role of phosphodiesterase isozymes in regulation of cyclic nucleotide metabolism; impact of phosphodiesterases in normal tissue and in pathophysiological models of disease.

J. Allan Tucker, M.D.

Pathology of neoplasms.

Glenn L. Wilson, Ph.D.
DNA damage and repair in the initiation and promotion of cancer and the role of these processes in the toxic actions of chemotherapeutic agents.


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