Faculty Research Interests
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- Director, Michael E. DeBakey Institute
- Professor and Head, Dept. of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology
- Research Interests: cardiovascular physiology; biophysics and bioengineering; quantitative analysis of biological systems; chronic venous and arterial hypertension and cardiopulmonary bypass; lymphatic function, edema formation and interstitial fibrosis.
- Professor and Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Research Interest: cardiovascular pharmacology and pathophysiology of circulatory shock.
Bailey, E.
Murl
- Professor
- Research Interests: toxicology; veterinary toxicology; toxic plants; wildlife and environmental toxicology; anesthesiology; pharmacology; experimental surgery; clinical medicine; emergency medicine; bioterrorism; weapons of mass destruction.
Blue-McLendon, Alice
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Research Interests: veterinary physiology; avian reproductive physiology; medicine of exotic animals; management of exotic animals teaching and research projects.
- Professor
- Research Interests: reflex control of endocrine and cardiovascular systems in the adult and fetus; control of the timing of parturition; fetal alcohol syndrome; eicosanoids in the brain.
Fajt, Virginia R.
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Research Interests: clinical pharmacology; antimicrobial therapy and dose design; pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; food animal therapeutics; evidence-based medicine; teaching and outcomes assessment in pharmacology.
Heaps, Cristine
- Assistant Professor
- Research Interests: cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology; effects of coronary artery disease and exercise training on smooth muscle and endothelial function in the coronary circulation.
- Clinical Associate Professor
- Research Interests: evaluation of student and instructor performance; optimization of curricula and the learning environment; modeling behavior of complex systems; application of technology to the classroom.
- Professor
- Research Interests: equine reproductive physiology; oocyte maturation; fertilization; nuclear transfer; early developmental biology of equine embryos; and assisted reproductive techniques.
- Associate Professor
- Research Interests: physiopathology of the digital cutaneous circulation.
- Professor
- Research Interests: experiential learning in the physiology laboratory teaching environment; preparation of undergraduate students for professional and graduate programs and careers in the allied health professions; maintaining rigorous academic standards in an era of declining expectations of students; development of products and the application of technology to enhance teaching and learning.
Ivanov, Ivan V.
- Assistant Professor
- Research Interests: genomic signal processing and mathematical modeling of genetic regulatory networks.
- Professor
- Research Interests: gamete and embryo physiology; embryo transfer, cloning, genetic engineering of mammals; preservation of endangered animals; contraception in animal pests.
Long, Charles
- Assistant Professor
- Research Interests: developmental biology; gamete and embryo physiology; embryonic stem cells; assisted reproductive technologies; animal transgenics; somatic cell nuclear transfer; epienetics; control of gene expression; RNA interference.
Quick, Christopher M.
- Associate Professor
- Research Interests: cardiovascular engineering; modeling and simulation; arterial hemodynamics and pulse wave phenomena; cerebral hemodynamics and cerebrovascular malformations; coordination of vascular adaptation in vascular networks; lymphangion dynamics.
Safe, Stephen H.
- Distinguished Professor
- Director, Center for Environmental and Genetic Medicine, Institute of Biosciences & Technology
- Research Interests: toxicology and molecular biology of estrogenic and antiestrongenic compounds; molecular mechanisms of estrogen receptor and Ah receptor action and their crosstalk in breast cancer cells; PPARgamma agonists and inhibition of cancer cell growth.
Sayes, Christie M.
- Assistant Professor
- Research interests: in vitro an in vivo toxicoloyical profiling of nano-scale materials; environmental healt and of safety of industrially-relevant and consumer-based particles; potential medical applications of nano-bio conjugates.
Schroeder,
Friedhelm
- Professor
- Research Interests: Intracellular lipid transfer proteins; lipid metabolism; multipohoton imaging of intracellular lipid transport and targeting in living cells and tissues of gene targeted animals.
Scott, Maya
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Research Interests: veterinary pharmacology; therapeutic drug monitoring; pharmacology instruction; small animal therapeutics; adverse drug events.
- Professor
- Research Interests: vascular physiology and pharmacology; endocrinology; hypertension; gonadal steroid hormone regulation of vascular function, especially eicosanoid and nitric oxide interactions between vascular smooth muscle and endothelium.
- Clinical Associate Professor
- Research Interests: cardiovascular physiology; lymphatic function; microvascular physiology; interstitial and cavity fluid balance.
- Associate Professor
- Research Interests: transcriptional control of the Ah receptor-regulated gene expression; interaction between the Ah receptor and NF-kB signal transduction pathways.
Wasser, Jeremy
S.
- Associate Professor
- Research Interests: cardiovascular physiology; biological applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy; comparative physiology of acid-base balance; mechanisms of hypoxia tolerance.
- Professor
- Research Interests: gamete physiology; developmental biology; embryo physiology; assisted reproductive techniques; in vitro fertilization; embryo transfer; cloning animals by nuclear transplantation; genetic engineering in animals; epigenetics and control of gene expression; RNA interference.
