Graduate Education in Medical Sciences at University of Chicago





GEMS Faculty

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de Lanerolle, Primal

PhD, University of California, San Diego
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Medicine
Prima@UIC.edu  312-996-6430

Research Interests
Signal Transduction and Cell Signaling , Gene Regulation, Vascular Biology

Research Description

The cytoskeleton in signal transduction; Molecular motors in the nucleus

 

de Tombe, Pieter

Ph.D. University of Calgary, Canada
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Medicine, and Bioengineering
pdetombe@uic.edu  312-355-0259

Research Interests
Molecular and Integrated Cardiac Biology , Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology, Signal Transduction and Cell Signaling

Research Description

Our research program is focused on unraveling molecular mechanisms underlying contractile protein function and regulation in health and disease. Our studies are both integrative and molecular in nature, spanning from control of cardiac pump function in the intact organism, to protein structure-function relationships as determined at the level of a few sarcomeres using sophisticated biophysical techniques. Our long term goals are to gain full understanding of the chemo-mechanical transduction processes underlying muscle contraction, and to use this knowledge to provide for a basic scientific rational to guide development of future novel treatment strategies aimed to combat cardiac disease in man.

 

De Vries, George

Ph.D., University of Illinois at the Medical Center
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
George.devries@med.v  708-202-2262

Research Interests
Neuroscience

Research Description

Neuron-glial interactions in myelination and demyelination

 

Diekwisch, Thomas

DDS, Ph.D. (sci), Ph.D. (phil), Philipps-University of Marburg, West Germany
Professor of Oral Biology and Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
tomdkw@uic.edu  312-413-9683

Research Interests
Gene Regulation , Development

Research Description

Developmental, molecular, and evolutionary biology of tooth enamel and periodontium

 

Du, Xiaoping

M.D., Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia
Professor of Pharmacology
xdu@uic.edu  312-355-0237

Research Interests
Vascular Biology , Signal Transduction and Cell Signaling

Research Description

Thrombosis, hemostasis, and vascular biology; molecular mechanisms and molecular pharmacology of platelet and endothelial cell functions.