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

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

Michael V. Cohen, M.D.
Cardiac physiology; mechanisms of myocardial preconditioning.

James M. Downey, Ph.D.
Cardiac physiology; mechanisms of myocardial preconditioning.

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

James C. Parker, Ph.D.
Role of stretch-activated cation channels in ventilator-induced lung injury; development of a perflurocarbon liquid ventilator.

Aubrey E. Taylor, Ph.D.
Lung ischemia-reperfusion injury; mathematical modeling of capillary transport.

Mark S. Taylor, Ph.D.
Regulation of vascular tone, including roles for sensitivity of the contractile apparatus to Ca²⁺, phosphodiesterases and cyclic nucleotide dependent protein kinases, and SK3-dependent hyperpolarization.

Mary I. Townsley, Ph.D.
Adaptive remodeling of lung structure and function in chronic heart failure; regulation and theory of endothelial permeability; microcirculation; interstitial matrix turnover.

David S. Weber, Ph.D.
Role of reactive oxygen species in vascular smooth muscle migration.

Jian Yang, Ph.D.
Molecular mechanisms of liver regeneration, role of metabolic derangement of lipids in the development of obesity and/or diabetes.

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