Poornima Dilhani Ekanayake, DVM, MS, PhD

Postdoc Research Associate

My primary research interest is to elucidate mechanisms that cause ill-understood detrimental effects kidney disease on the brain. My current project studies remote brain dysfunction following acute ...

Jimin Ding, PhD

Associate Professor

As a classically-trained statistician, my expertise is in longitudinal (functional) data analysis and survival analysis. Besides a strong background in mathematics and statistics, I have developed ...

Siyuan Ding, PhD

enteric virus infection, innate immune response, intestinal inflammatory signaling

Breno S. Diniz, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry

My primary research interest is understanding how serious mental illnesses across the lifespan impact biological aging processes, including brain aging, and determine adverse health outcomes in ...

Lai Kuan Dionne, PhD

I am interested in the structure-function analyses of proteinous organelles (i.e. midbody, centrosome and cilia), specifically in their signaling roles in stem cell fate determination.

Luke Diorio-Toth, MS

The emergence and persistence of antibiotic resistance in the microbiome of built and natural environments

Richard DiPaolo, PhD

Professor, Chair of the Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Research interests include understanding how immune cells and cytokines contribute to diseases such as autoimmunity and cancer. We use this information to develop and test new strategies and ...

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD

Lewis T and Rosalind B Apple Professor of Medicine

Mouse models of stem cell transplantation and Graft vs. Host Disease; biology and genetics of AML relapse/resistance; stem cell trafficking and mobilization in mouse and man; clinical trials in ...

Naomi Dirckx, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

My research interests revolve around the investigation of citrate and its plasma-membrane transporter, SLC13A5. Utilizing murine models, my lab will study the role of SLC13A5-mediated citrate import ...

Michael N. Diringer, MD

Professor of Neurology

Physiologic responses to acute therapeutic intervention in critically ill patients with neurological or neurosurgical disease focusing on cerebral blood flow and metabolism.