Norma Frizzell
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Protein post-translational modification
Protein succination
Mitochondrial stress and disease
Metabolic disorders

Angela Murphy
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Complimentary medicine and cancer
Macrophage-induced inflammation
High fat diet and breast cancer

Mitzi Nagarkatti,
Chair Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
Biodefense
Immunopharmacology of cannabinoids
Immunotoxicology

Prakash Nagarkatti
Vice President for Research and Carolina Distinguished Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Immunotoxicity of dioxin
Cannabinoids in cancer therapy
Complimentary medicine and inflammation

Swapan Ray
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Glioblastoma
Therapeutic approaches to spinal cord injury

Wayne Carver
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Regulation of fibrosis
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
Fibroblast development and differentiation

Daping Fan
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of atherosclerosis
Complimentary medicine
Inflammation
microRNAs in atherogenesis

Edie Goldsmith
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Extracellular matrix in heart development and disease
Nanomaterials as therapeutics
Diabetes-induced heart disease

Lydia Matesic
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Ubiquitin ligases in development and disease
Cancer and metastasis
Cardiac hypertrophy and sudden cardiac death

Martin Morad
Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Health and Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Calcium channels and heart function
Conduction system
Engineering a biological pacemaker

Jay Potts
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Heart valve development
Signal transduction
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Frank Spinale
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Heart failure
Matrix metalloproteinases
Myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease biomarker development

Daping Fan
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of atherosclerosis
Complimentary medicine
Inflammation
microRNAs in atherogenesis

Angela Murphy
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Complimentary medicine and cancer
Macrophage-induced inflammation
High fat diet and breast cancer

Mitzi Nagarkatti
Professor and Chair Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
Biodefense
Immunopharmacology of cannabinoids
Immunotoxicology

Prakash Nagarkatti
Carolina Distinguished Professor and Vice President for Research, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Immunotoxicity of dioxin
Cannabinoids in cancer therapy
Complimentary medicine and inflammation

Wayne Carver
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Regulation of fibrosis
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
Fibroblast development and differentiation

Edie Goldsmith
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Extracellular matrix in heart development and disease
Nanomaterials as therapeutics
Diabetes-induced heart disease

Jay Potts
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Heart valve development
Signal transduction
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Wayne Carver
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Regulation of fibrosis
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
Fibroblast development and differentiation

Daping Fan
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of atherosclerosis
Complimentary medicine
Inflammation
microRNAs in atherogenesis

Angela Murphy
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Complimentary medicine and cancer
Macrophage-induced inflammation
High fat diet and breast cancer

Mitzi Nagarkatti
Chair Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
Biodefense
Immunopharmacology of cannabinoids
Immunotoxicology

Prakash Nagarkatti
Vice President for Research and Carolina Distinguished Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Immunotoxicity of dioxin
Cannabinoids in cancer therapy
Complimentary medicine and inflammation

Carole Oskeritzian
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Mast cells
Sphingolipids
Regulation of mast cell enzymes and cytokines

James Fadel
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Aging, homeostasis and cognition
Hypocretin/Orexin neuropeptide system 
Basal forebrain cholinergic system

Norma Frizzell
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Metabolic processes and protein modifications
Mitochondrial Stress in diabetes
Mitochondrial diseases like Leigh Syndrome

Claudia Grillo
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Neural mechanisms regulating food intake
Neurobiology of obesity

Fiona Hollis
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Brain mitochondrial function in healthy and stressed conditions
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Social and anxiety-related behaviors

Aaron Jasnow
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Neural mechanisms of fear learning and memory
Neurobiology of stress, anxiety disorders, and PTSD.
Sex differences and estrogen regulation of emotional behavior

Joe McQuail
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Age-related cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer’s disease
Impacts of chronic stress across the lifespan
Neurobiological effects of a ketogenic diet

Ana Pocivavsek
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Sleep dysregulation in psychiatric disorders
Interactions between sleep and cognitive function
Kynurenine pathway of tryptophan degradation

David Mott
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia, Neuroscience Graduate Director
Research Interests:
Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
Modulation of neural circuits underlying motivated behaviors
Neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders and epilepsy

Sujit Pujhari
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Director, Viral Vector Core
Research Interests:
Development of viral vectors for modifying brain expression of proteins
Virology of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission

Larry Reagan
Professor and Vice Chair Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Hippocampus
Stress and neuropsychiatric disorders
Insulin resistance, synaptic plasticity and cognition

Swapan Ray
Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Glioblastoma
Therapeutic approaches to spinal cord injury

Marlene Wilson
Professor and Chair Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience,  School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Neural mechanisms of anxiety-related disorders
Sex differences in brain physiology and pathology
Individual differences in fear learning and extinction

Susan Wood
Associate Professor, School of Medicine Columbia
Research Interests:
Social Stress
Animal models of depression and PTSD
Neuroinflammatory mechanisms of stress susceptibility