COBRE Faculty

Our diverse faculty includes skilled COBRE project leaders, CORE directors, mentors and administrators — all dedicated to the mission of our COBRE and gaining new biomedical insights that will improve our understanding of processes that will ultimately pave the way for new, and more effective treatments of human diseases.

COBRE Project Leaders

Thomas Kidd, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Project 1 Leader
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Thomas Gould, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
Project 3 Leader
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Ruben K. Dagda, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Project 4 Leader Pharmacology
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Robert Renden, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
Project 5
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CORE Directors

Christopher von Bartheld, M.D.

Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
CORE A Director / Project 5 Mentor
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Grant Mastick, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biology
CORE C Director / Project 1 Mentor
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Mentors

Grant Mastick, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biology
Project 1 Mentor / CORE C
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Sean M. Ward, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences
Project 1 Mentor
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Dean Burkin, Ph.D.

Professor; Director, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Program
Project 3 Mentor, Project 5
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James Kenyon, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
Project 3 Mentor
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Iain Buxton, D.Pharm.

Regents Professor, Foundation Professor and Chairman, Department of Pharmacology
Project 4 Mentor
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Robert Harvey, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Project 4 Mentor
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Christopher von Bartheld, M.D.

Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
Project 5 Mentor / CORE A Leader
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