University of South Alabama
College of Medicine
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Faculty

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

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

Y. Mohan Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
Molecular biology of eukaryotic chromosomal proteins in normal and cancer cells.

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.
Ion channel modulation; regulation of mKATP channels by p38 MAPK during ischemia. 

Phillip A. Fields, Ph.D.
Role of hormones derived from blastocyst, placenta, ovary and uterus in implantation, maintenance of pregnancy and parturition.

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

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.

Solomon Ofori-Acquah, Ph.D.
 
Role of signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) and p38 MAPK in g globin regulation.

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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