Research
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Listed alphabetically by subject area. Please send updates to mrattana@health.ucsd.edu.
Molecular mechanisms of aging; impact of inflammation on the brain; chronic diseases of aging.
Molecular and cell biology of allergy; immune-mediated and inflammatory diseases; mucosal immunity.
Pathogenesis and treatment.
Bioinformatics; clinical informatics; global health informatics and telemedicine; infrastructure, privacy technology and health information exchange.
Core bioinformatics expertise to manage and analyze large molecular datasets, especially from next-generation sequencing. Special emphasis in genomics, systems biology and personalized medicine.
Atherosclerosis; cardiac electrophysiology; cardiac mechanics; heart failure; integrins in inflammation; interventional cardiology; molecular cardiology; physiology and pharmacology.
Etiology, treatment, and prevention; molecular mechanisms; pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease; the contribution of the kidney to cardiovascular disease in diabetes and obesity.
Celiac disease; gastrointestinal infection; intestinal inflammatory disease.
Obesity; lipid research; pituitary; thyroid; signal transduction; transcription; calcium and bone; reproductive endocrine diseases.
Molecular mechanisms of aging; impact of inflammation on the brain.
HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis; risk factors, transmission, treatment, prevention, border health, health care utilization, STDs, viral hepatitis, substance use, migration and health, and social justice.
Experimental therapeutics; hematological malignancies; chronic lymphocytic leukemia; stem cell biology; tumor biology/immunology; hematopoiesis; platelet-vascular biology.
Pathogenesis, prevention, risk factors, transmission, treatment.
Glycemic control, venous thromboembolism prevention, transitions of care.
HIV and opportunistic infections; drug resistance; hepatitis B and C; Leptospira; malaria; tuberculosis; microbial pathogenesis; international medicine; neurovirology; prevention; tropical medicine; parasitology.
See Also HIV/AIDS
Developing new biotechnology therapies; conducting multicenter clinical trials; clinical pharmacology of medications used in treatment.
See Also Digestive Diseases
Development; physiology and pathophysiology; hypertension; immuno-pathogenesis and transplantation; function in early diabetes and diabetic nephropathy; acute injury and outcomes research; failure.
Cancer clinical trials, cellular-immunotherapy, diagnostics, experimental therapeutics, gene immunotherapy, regenerative medicine, stem cell medicine, tumor biology.
Epidemiology and biomarkers for liver disease; multi-targeted therapies for liver cancer; molecular pathogenesis of fibrotic liver disease and the genetic basis of liver disorders;
progression of chronic liver diseases; hepatic fibrosis; alcoholic liver disease; liver failure; hepatitis B and C; clinical trials; treatments; transplantation; population screening; vaccination.
Genomics and personalized medicine; systems biology.
Division of Medical Genetics
COPD; drug-resistant tuberculosis; pulmonary function during weightlessness; respiratory biology; sleep medicine.
See Also Division of PhysiologyBiology of immunologic and inflammatory diseases; pathogenesis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
The pathogenesis of sleep apnea; metabolic/cardiovascular complications of sleep disorders; mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Deep vein thrombosis; chronic thrombotic venous disease.
DVT prevention in inpatients: