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F. Sessions Cole
 Park J. White Professor of Pediatrics

F. Sessions Cole, M.D., the Park J. White Professor of Pediatrics, is the Director of the Division of Newborn Medicine, and he oversees the 52-bed neonatal intenstive care unit (NICU) at St. Louis Childern's Hospital. His research focuses inherited infant lung diseases, surfactant protein-B deficiency, ...

Expertise: newborn medicine, genetic lung disease in infants

Media assistance: (314) 286-0119 / leydigk@wustl.edu

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Michael Holtzman
 Selma and Herman Seldin Professor of Medicine

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Holtzman is renowned for his research into the underlying cause of asthma, and has proposed a new model of the disease that incorporates the role of a viral response early in life.

Expertise: airway diseases, allergies, asthma, pulmonary disease, respiratory disease, viral response

Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu

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Keith Hruska
 Professor of nephrology

Hruska is a leader in studies of the links between the kidney and the skeleton, which can cause devastating side effects for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Kidneys and bones produce factors that support each other's development and maintenance, and when CKD damages the kidney and reduces ...

Expertise: kidney, chronic kidney disease, bone, bone weakening, adynamic bone disorder, secondary hyparathyroidism, bone morphogenetic protein

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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M. Alan Permutt
 Director of the Diabetes Research and Training Center

Permutt is a world leader in the study of the genetic basis of diabetes. He identified the first gene that played a role in type 2 diabetes and subsequently has identified other genes involved in the disease, including a gene that contributes to a rare form of insulin dependent diabetes called Wolfram ...

Expertise: diabetes, intensive control of insulin depdendent diabetes, Wolfram syndrome, gene encoding, genetic aspects of type 2 diabetes

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu

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Helen Piwnica-Worms
 Professor of cell biology and physiology

Piwnica-Worms' laboratory is interested in how the human cell division cycle is regulated and how perturbations in cell cycle control contribute to human cancer. The cell division cycle is a series of temporally regulated events with each event being dependent upon the proper execution of the preceding ...

Expertise: cancer cell proliferation, Cell cycle control

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Ralph Quatrano

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...

Expertise: Plants, plant biology, botany, moss, genome, algae, genes, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6850
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Shirley Sahrmann
 Professor of cell biology and physiology

Clinically, Sahrmann specializes in musculoskeletal pain syndromes and neuromuscular dysfunction syndromes. Her research interests include motor control and the classification of musculoskeletal pain syndromes.

Expertise: musculoskeletal pain syndromes, neuromuscular dysfunction syndromes, motor control

Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu

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Clay F. Semenkovich
 Professor of Medicine and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology

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Semenkovich is known for his research on lipid metabolism, obesity and atherosclerosis.

Expertise: obesity, diabetes, lipid disorders, atheroscilerosis, lipid metaboism

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu

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Frank Yin
 Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; The Stephen and Camilla Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...

Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics

Direct contact: (314) 935-6164
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