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Ormond MacDougald

Ormond MacDougald, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, John A Faulkner Professor of Physiology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Immigrant-Identified
Research Interests:
Adipocytes, Adipose Tissue, Diabetes, Bone, Obesity
Shoji Maeda

Shoji Maeda

Assistant Professor
Pharmacology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests
Regulation of GPCR signal transduction
David Markovitz

David Markovitz, MD

Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Interaction between retroviruses and human cellular proteins. Mechanism of action of the DEK oncoprotein. Role of vimentin in immunity and cancer. Kaposi’s Sarcoma.
Donna Martin

Donna Martin, MD, PhD

Human Genetics
Research Interests:
Molecular genetics of transcription factor mediated neuronal development; gene targeting; studies of human and mouse developmental disorders.
Hayley McLoughlin

Hayley McLoughlin

Assistant Professor
Neurology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
neurodegeneration; ataxia; oligodendrocyte biology; gene therapy/silencing approaches
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Miriam Meisler

Miriam Meisler, PhD

Human Genetics
Research Interests:
We are studying the molecular basis of neurological disorders using mouse models of epilepsy, movement and behavioral disorders. This work has enabled us to identify several human disease mutations.
Ram Menon

Ram Menon, MD

Pediatrics
Research Interests:
The development of diabetic kidney disease and understanding the mechanisms underlying the role of growth hormone in the causation of certain chronic complications of type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Sofia Merajver

Sofia Merajver, MD, PhD

Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Molecular genetics of aggressive breast cancer phenotypes and hereditary breast cancer. Angiogenesis, molecular therapeutics.
Michele, Daniel

Dan Michele, PhD

Professor and Interim Chair of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Muscular dystrophy, muscle, cardiomypathy, disease modeling
Jason Miller

Jason Miller, MD, PhD

James Grosfeld Professor and Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Research Interests:
Age-related macular degeneration, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), induced pluripotent stem cells and primary culture, metabolism and lipid biology, lysosome and autophagy
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Stephanie Moon

Stephanie Moon, PhD

Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
Faculty Scholar of the Center for RNA Biomedicine
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Translation, integrated stress response, RNA Biology, stress granules, neurological disease
John Moran

John Moran, PhD

Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Mobile Genetic Elements; Human Genome structure, function, and evolution; molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics
Richard Mortensen

Richard Mortensen, MD, PhD

Internal Medicine/Mol. Integ. Physiol
Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance, inflammation, metabolic disorders and associated cardiovascular disease.
Jacob Mueller

Jacob Mueller, PhD

Human Genetics
Assistant Professor
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Sex chromosomes, spermatogenesis, large palindromes, selfish genes
Martin Myers

Martin Myers, MD, PhD

Professor of Internal Medicine
Director of the Michigan Diabetes Research Center and the Caswell Diabetes Institute
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training
Research Interests:
hypothalamus, brainstem, obesity, diabetes, leptin