Research areas include: Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Biology, Wound-healing, and Tissue Engineering; Drug and Gene Delivery; Cancer Biology and Therapy; Vascular Biology, Inflammation, and Cardiovascular Dysfunction; Novel Bioelectric Approaches to Cancer and Cardiovascular Therapies; Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer, Aging, and Stem Cells.
Harold Riethman, Professor and Chair
Telomeres and Subtelomeres labeled using CRISPR-CAS9 for sequence-specific nick-labeling.
Research Interests: Translational genomics of telomeres; telomere function and dysfunction in cancer, aging, and regenerative medicine; novel telomere-associated biomarkers.
Recent Publications: National Center for Biotechnology Information/PubMed
Robert Bruno, Assistant Professor
Normal breast microenvironment redirects MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells to adopt a normal mammary epithelial cell fate.
Research interests: stem cell biology, breast cancer tumor promotion, developmental biology, molecular mechanisms of huntington's disease, induced pluripotent stem cells.
Recent Publications: National Center for Biotechnology Information/PubMed
Laboratory website: Robert D, Bruno, PhD
John D. Catravas, Professor
Protection of endothelial cells by Hsp90 inhibitors.
Interim Executive Director & Sentara Endowed Chair, Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics
Research Interests: Vascular endothelium and vascular inflammation. Endothelial barrier function. Endothelial dysfunction in acute lung injury, ARDS and pulmonary hypertension. Anti-inflammatory actions of heat shock protein 90 inhibitors.
Recent Publications: National Center for Biotechnology Information/PubMed
Loree C. Heller, Associate Professor
Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics
Research interests: DNA electroporation, pattern recognition receptors, gene therapy, antibiotic resistant bacteria, non-thermal gas plasma
Recent Publications: National Center for Biotechnology Information/PubMed
Richard Heller, Professor and Eminent Scholar
Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics
Research interests: Drug and gene delivery, gene electrotransfer, immunotherapy, tissue ablation, cancer therapy, wound healing, ischemia, non-thermal gas plasma
Recent Publications: National Center for Biotechnology Information/PubMed
Roy C. Ogle, Professor
Axonal outgrowth from a dorsal root ganglion on nanofibers of blended laminin-polycaprolactone. Axons express yellow fluorescent protein driven by the beta 3 tubulin promotor.
Research interests: Regenerative medicine, stem cell biology, cellular reprogramming, tissue engineering, mechanisms of degenerative diseases.
Recent Publications: National Center for Biotechnology Information/PubMed
Patricks Sachs, Assistant Professor
Neuronal progenitor cells differentiated from Huntington’s disease induced pluripotent stem cells. NPCs were probed for Beta-III tubulin expression (Green).
Research Interests: Techniques and technologies for elongating human lifespan, somatic cell reprograming, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, stem cell biology, telomeres & telomerase.
Recent Publications: National Center for Biotechnology Information/PubMed
Scott Sechrist, Associate Professor
Scott Sechrist, Associate Professor, EdD, College of William and Mary 2000
Program Director, Nuclear medicine Technology
Research interests: Educational Technology in Medical Imaging Education, Modeling and Simulation in Medical Imaging Education, Occupational Stress in Health Care.
Sophie Thompson, Associate Professor
Sophie K Thompson
MHS, Medical Univ of South Carolina, 1984
Research Interests: HPV, Cancer, Asbestosis, Ergonomics of the Microscope, Silicosis