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David Clifford
 Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology in Neurology

Clifford, who is director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, is a leading expert on the neurological complications of AIDS and their treatment and management. He has also participated in studies of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Clifford is involved ...

Expertise: Neuropharmacology, HIV, AIDS, AIDS-related dementia, peripheral neuropathy, leukoencephalopathy, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, …

Media assistance: (314) 286-0126 / pattoner@wustl.edu

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Jeffrey I. Gordon
 The Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology and Professor of Medicine

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Gordon is internationally known for his research on gastrointestinal development and how gut bacteria affect normal intestinal function and predisposition to health and to certain diseases.

Expertise: molecular biology, pharmacology, gut biology, microbes, bacteria, intestines, gastrointestinal development, …

Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu

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David M. Holtzman
 Head of the Department of Neurology

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Holtzman is known as one of the leading experts in researching the underlying mechanisms that lead to Alzheimer's disease in an effort to improve diagnosis and treatment. In addition to seeing patients at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the Memory Diagnostic Center, Holtzman leads a research ...

Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, neurology, molecular biology, monoclonal antibodies, amyloid plaques, perinatal stroke

Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu

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Howard McLeod
 director of the pharmacology core at the Siteman Cancer Center

There is a high degree of variation in patient response to medicines. The McLeod laboratory uses genetic tools to perform in vitro, ex vivo, and clinical evaluations to discover, validate, and apply molecular predictors of therapeutic outcome. This includes candidate gene and genome-wide human association ...

Expertise: pharmacogenetics, pharmacology, translational research, tumor markers, chemotherapy

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

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Michael Welch
 Professor of radiology

Welch, an expert in synthetic chemistry, has been a leader for more than 30 years in the development of synthetic imaging agents that have allowed doctors to use positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose an increasingly wide variety of disorders. He is also head of the Radiochemistry Institute ...

Expertise: PET, nuclear medicine, synthetic chemistry, oncology, imaging agents, radioisotopes, radionuclides

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