Graduate Faculty Mentors

Jonathan Bird

Jonathan Bird Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Gene therapy
  • Hearing Loss
  • High-content Screening and Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Motors and Cytoskeletal Disease
Katelyn A Bruno

Katelyn A Bruno PhD, FHFSA, FACC

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Interests:
  • Age Differences
  • Cardio-Oncology
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Heart Failure
  • Myocarditis
  • Sex Differences
  • hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS)
Gemma Casadesus

Gemma Casadesus Ph.D.

Professor
Research Interests:
  • Aging
  • Integrative neuroscience
  • Menopause
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Neurodegenerative diseases
  • Neuromodulation
  • Neuropathology of Neurodegenerative diseases
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Sex Differences
  • neuroendocrinology
  • neurometabolism
Eli Chapman

Eli Chapman Ph.D.

Professor
Research Interests:
  • Cellular quality control
  • Chaperones
  • Chemical biology
  • Drug discovery
Olga Guryanova

Olga Guryanova MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Cancer
  • Drug discovery
  • Epigenetics
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Jeffrey K Harrison

Jeffrey K Harrison Ph.D.

Professor
Research Interests:
  • Cancer
  • Chemokines
  • Receptors
Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna Ph.D.

Richard And Thelma O.C. Barney Term Professor And Director, Pain Research and Integrated Neuroscience Center (PRINC)
May Khanna

May Khanna Ph.D.

Assistant Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Daniel Kopinke

Daniel Kopinke Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Drug discovery
  • Primary Cilia and Cilopathies
  • Regenerative and Precision Therapeutics
  • Stem Cell biology
  • Tissue engineering related to wound healing
Brian K Law

Brian K Law Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Email: bklaw@ufl.edu
Research Interests:
  • Cancer
  • Cell Cycle Regulation
  • Drug discovery
Mark S Moehle

Mark S Moehle Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
  • Dystonia
  • Lewy Body Dementia
  • Movement Disorders
  • Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors
  • Parkinson’s disease
Helen Moore

Helen Moore PhD

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Mechanism-based mathematical modeling
Jennifer K Mulligan

Jennifer K Mulligan PhD

Vice Chair For Research; Co-Director, UF Health Smell Disorders Program; Director Of Resident Research Education; Associate Professor, Division Of Rhinology & Skull Base Surgery & Department Of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Aline C Oliveira

Aline C Oliveira Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Dietmar W Siemann

Dietmar W Siemann

Professor; Associate Director For Education And Training, UFHCC
Lee Sweeney

Lee Sweeney Ph.D.

Myology Institute Director & Eminent Scholar Professor
Research Interests:
  • AAV vectors
  • Dystrophin
  • Force generation
  • Gene therapy
  • MR imaging
  • Molecular motors
  • Muscle
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Myosin
  • Sarcopenia
  • Small molecule therapy
Gilbert R Upchurch, Jr

Gilbert R Upchurch, Jr MD

Professor And Edward M. Copeland, III And The Ann & Ira Horowitz Department Chair
Nikhil Urs

Nikhil Urs Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Dopamine circuit mapping
  • Dopamine neurotransmission
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Schizophrenia
Dan Wesson

Dan Wesson Ph.D.

Professor & Chair
Research Interests:
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Drug addiction
  • Neural circuits
  • Neurophysiology
  • Nicotine Addiction
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Sensory neuroscience
  • neuroscience
  • olfaction
  • smell
  • synucleinopathy
Rui Xiao

Rui Xiao PhD

Associate Professor
Email: rxiao@ufl.edu
Research Interests:
  • Aging
  • C. elegans
  • Molecular genetics
  • Sensory biology
Fan Zhang

Fan Zhang Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
  • CNS Cancer
  • Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Drug delivery
  • Immuno-Oncology
  • Immunotherapy
  • Nanomedicine
  • Neuroinflammation