Graduate Faculty Mentors

Jonathan Bird

Jonathan Bird Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
  • Gene therapy
  • Hearing Loss
  • High-content Screening and Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Motors and Cytoskeletal Disease
Eli Chapman

Eli Chapman

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

Professor
May Khanna

May Khanna

Assistant Dean & Associate Professor
Daniel Kopinke

Daniel Kopinke Ph.D.

Assistant 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
Gemma Casadesus

Gemma Casadesus

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

Hendrik Luesch Ph.D.

Professor And Chair, Debbie And Sylvia DeSantis Chair In Natural Products Drug Discovery And Development
Mark S Moehle

Mark S Moehle

Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
  • Dystonia
  • Lewy Body Dementia
  • Movement Disorders
  • Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors
  • Parkinson’s disease
Aline C Oliveira

Aline C Oliveira

Assistant Professor
Leah R Reznikov

Leah R Reznikov

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Integrative neuroscience
Ashish K Sharma

Ashish K Sharma MD, PhD

Associate 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
Nikhil Urs

Nikhil Urs Ph.D.

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

Dan Wesson Ph.D.

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

Rui Xiao Ph.D.

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