Member Directory

Facilitating Team Science through Collaboration

To advance translational research from a basic discovery to an actionable improvement in public health typically requires a team science approach involving a variety of stakeholders.

The ICTS facilitates team science by providing access to collaboration opportunities among our members at Washington University and our regional partner institutions. We encourage this partnership development with the ICTS member directory, a resource to find other investigators with similar research interests.

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Attila Kovacs, MD

Professor of Medicine

Research interest: phenotypic evaluation of cardiovascular pathophysiology in genetically manipulated mice and surgically induced mouse models of cardiovascular diseases with particular emphasis on …

Sandor J. Kovacs, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

cardiovascular disease

Benjamin D. Kozower, MD, MPH

I am a thoracic surgeon and clinical/health services researcher. my research areas have focused on quality assessment in healthcare and incorporating patient reported outcomes into clinical use

Bryan D. Kraft, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Bryan D. Kraft joined the Department of Medicine and Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine in September 2021. He is also the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Units (MICU) for …

John Krais, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

DNA damage response pathways are often altered in cancer and are attractive targets for therapeutic intervention, particularly in settings where chemotherapy resistance has emerged. My laboratory …

Michael H. Kramer, MD, PhD

Instructor in Medicine

Dr. Kramer is a physician-scientist studying blood cancers, particularly acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He has studied the proteomics of AML, identifying examples of posttranscriptionally regulated …

Michael A. Kramer, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Investigation of clinical interventions impacting the management and outcomes of critically ill children.

Jeffrey A. Krampf, MS, PhD

Lecturer

Applying engineering approaches to biomedical problems. Focus on using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to analyze flow behavior in arteriovenous fistula for end stage renal disease (ESRD) …

Lindsay M. Kranker, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Social Determinants of Injury, Harm Reduction in Opioid Prescribing, Violence Intervention, Management of Traumatic/Burn Wounds, and Quality Improvement in Acute Care Surgery

Brian T. Kraus, MA, PhD

Postdoc Research Scholar

Using precision neuroimaging combined with precision behavior to identify valid and reliable biomarkers of psychiatric illnesses in the brain.

Bridget G. Kraus, PhD, MOT, BHS, Other

Assistant Professor

Dr. Kraus’s primary focus is on neurological recovery and enhancing health outcomes for individuals with acquired neurological conditions, such as spinal cord injury. The overarching goal is to …

Alexxai Kravitz, PhD

Dr. Kravitz is interested in the study of basal ganglia circuits and how their function changes in disease states such as obesity, addiction, and anxiety disorders. Under normal conditions, the basal …

Geraldine J. Kress, PhD

My research interests focus on understanding interactions between cognitive function and the circadian system during the aging process and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression in order to identify …

Matthew W. Kreuter, MPH, PhD

Professor of Social Work

Dr. Kreuter explores strategies to increase the reach and effectiveness of health information in low-income and minority populations to help eliminate health disparities.

Samuel R. Krimmel, PhD

I work on individual variability in subcortical structures in humans. This research can contribute to personalized medicine.

James G. Krings, MD, MS

MD

Asthma, Clinical Outcomes

Kristen L. Kroll, PhD

Associate Professor of Developmental Biology

We are interested in understanding how embryonic and embryonic stem (ES) cells regulate self-renewal, lineage commitment, and differentiation and are studying these questions in the context of …

Melissa R. Kroll, MD

Clinical Instructor

Clinical research targeted at improving prehospital care and delivery of medicine in this low resource environment.

Ronald J. Krone, MD

Professor of Medicine

I am currently interested in clinical research involving the effects on the heart of various neoplastic diseases and their treatments. I have previously participated in studies of treatment of …

Kayla O. Krueger, DPT

My research focuses on understanding how spinal movement impairments contribute to the development and course of non-specific low back pain.

Samantha J. Krysa, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Neutrophil biology, non-infectious roles of neutrophils, immunometabolism, intercellular mitochondria transfer, signaling, basic cell & molecular biology.

Kilannin Krysiak, PhD

My research focuses on the improvement of patient treatment by advancing our understanding of the impact of genetic alterations on cancer prognosis and treatment response. I am involved in analysis …

Yuan-Hung Kuan, BS

McDonnell Scholar

I’m intrigued by exploring how clinical health data can be leveraged to develop a learning model aimed at enhancing medical decision-making.

Jan Kubanek, MS, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

My research has developed and deployed systems for precision noninvasive brain stimulation in patients. The treatments are based on focused ultrasonic waves. The developed devices have been used in …

Sakil Kulkarni, MD

Asst Prof of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests: Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Research Interests: Liver regeneration, Acute Liver Failure, Pediatric Liver transplantation

Parvesh Kumar, MD

Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research

I have engaged in clinical research related to prostate cancer, head and neck cancer and lung cancer, having served as Principal Investigator and / or Co-PI for NCI sponsored (CALGB and RTOG) …

Senthil R. Kumar, PhD

My interest is in cell signaling, epigenetics and small molecule drug development in solid tumors (pancreatic and lung tumors) including hematological malignancies. My research focus is also in …

Suresh Kumar, MSC, PhD

ß2-Glycoprotein I (ß2GPI) is an abundant plasma protein having phospholipid-binding properties. It is known to be the major target antigen of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) in antiphospholipid …

Terrance T. Kummer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology

My research program is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neuronal trauma and degeneration during and following acute brain injury.  I am particularly interested in intracerebral …

Bornali Kundu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Brain stimulation using implanted devices has revolutionized the treatment of functional disorders including movement disorders and epilepsy. However, the precise mechanisms by which neurostimulation …

Che-Pei Kung, PhD

Pathogenesis of breast cancer, with focus on tumor suppressors’ roles in triple-negative breast cancer.

Paul V. Kunnath, MD, MS

My interest is in expanding the evidence base for the clinical utility of routinely used radiology, laboratory and other diagnostic testing.

Ranju Kunwor, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Outcome research, database research, meta-analysis, clinical trials

Wen-Hsi Kuo, PhD

Graduate Fellow

Plant science, Genomics, Population genetics, Evolution

Lindsay M. Kuroki, MD

HPV vaccination for prevention of CIN2+ disease in women younger than age 30 years.

Howard I. Kurz, MD, MSE

Professor of Medicine

My research is clinical and is in the field of interventional cardiology. It involves the investigation of new techniques and devices utilized in coronary interventions and their outcomes. My …

Vladimir Kushnir, MD

Assistant professor of medicine

Endoscopy, obesity

Sebla B. Kutluay, PhD

We have recently discovered that HIV-1 Integrase protein regulates particle maturation, a role completely independent of its catalytic activity. This involves the binding of integrase to viral RNA …

Kristin Kwakwa, PhD

Postdoc Research Scholar

Breast cancer; bone metastasis; chemoresistance; integrin signaling

Jennie H. Kwon, DO

Assistant Professor of Medicine

My research interest is in the promotion of quality care and patient safety through the prevention and control of infections, with a special interest in Clostridium difficile infection.

George B. Kyei, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology

My research interests are in HIV latency and reservoir maintenance. An important obstacle to the cure of HIV is viral replication in long lived, quiescent immune cells such as macrophages, dendritic …

Helen W. Lach, PhD, RN

Falls, Fear of Falling, Injury, Prevention

Jack H. Ladenson, PhD

Oree M Carroll and Lillian B Ladenson Professor of Clinical Chemistry in Pathology and Immunology

Research interests have mainly involved the development of improved diagnostic procedures and research tools. My laboratory developed the antibodies used for the immunoassay for CK-MB, the first …

Kimberly Laffey, PhD

I am primarily interested in studying aberrant immune interactions leading to leukemogenesis.

Richard Laforest, MSC, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology

My research interest involves developing and optimizing data acquisitiona ndimage reconstruction techniques as well as algorithms for the improvement of image quality in Nuclear Medice imaging.

Soumendra Lahiri, PhD

Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Mathematics and Statistics

My research spans over different areas of Statistics and Data Science. For over three decades, I have done methodological research on a suite of nonparametric statistical methods, called Resampling …

Albert M. Lai, PhD

Chief Research Information Officer

Dr. Lai specializes in the development of research informatics infrastructure and is well recognized in the fields of clinical research informatics and consumer health informatics. A Chief Research …

Brian Laidlaw, PhD

The Laidlaw lab investigates the development of immunological memory in disease states. Specifically, we are focused on understanding the transcriptional networks regulating the development and …

Spencer P. Lake, PhD

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Research focuses on orthopedic biomechanics, with particular emphasis on soft tissues such as tendons and ligaments.  Interested in understanding structure-function relationships in healthy tissues …

Peter M. Lambert, BS

DBBS Pre Doc Trainee

I am interested in neurosteroid effects on GABA-A receptor function, including changes to cellular, circuit, and network level activities.