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Department Faculty Members
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James M. Anderson, Professor and Chair, Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1979; M.D., Harvard University, 1983
Cellular Signaling Mechanisms of the Tight Junction

Eva Anton, Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Duke University, 1994
Molecular Analysis of Neuronal Migration and Layer Formation in Cerebral Cortex

William J. Arendshorst, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1970
Function of Renal Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Receptors and Signal Transduction Pathways

Manzoor Bhat, Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, 1992
Axon Glial Interactions, Blood-Brain Barrier Formation, Signal Transduction

Kathleen Caron, Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology

Ph.D., Duke University, 1997
Genetically Engineered Animal Models in Study of Human Disease

Richard E. Cheney, Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Washington University, 1989

Motor Proteins, Cytoskeleton, and Cell Motility

C. William Davis, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology and Medicine
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1978
Regulation of Mucociliary Clearance in Airways

James E. Faber, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1981
Receptor Signal Transduction by Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Richard Falvo, Adjunct Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1970
General Physiology, Endocrinology, Aging

Alan Fanning, Research Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Yale University, 1993
Role of Cytoplasmic Proteins in Tight Junction Assembly and Function

Paul B. Farel, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1970
Neural Development and Regeneration

Susan Fellner, Research Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
M.D., University of Florida, 1966
Function of Renal Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Receptors and Signal Transduction Pathways

Michael F. Goy, Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1977
Biochemical Processing of Information at the Cellular Level

Armin Just, Research Instructor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
M.D., Ph.D., Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
Dynamics of Cardiovascular Regulation

Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Yale University, 1988
Control of Gene Expression in the Developing and Adult Central Nervous System

P. Kay Lund, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Pediatrics and Nutrition
Ph.D., University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1979
Molecular Biology of Growth Factors and the Gastrointestinal Tract; Transcriptional Mechanisms of Aging Induced Memory Loss

Paul B. Manis, Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and of
Cell and Molecular Physiology; Director, UNC Curriculum in Neurobiology
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1981

Cellular basis of information processing in the auditory system

David L. McIlwain, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
M.D., Washington University, 1964
Chemistry of Spinal Motoneurons

Gerhard Meissner, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Technical University Berlin, 1965
Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Muscle

Carol A. Otey, Associate Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1987
Mechanisms of Cell Motility and Adhesion

Edward R. Perl, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1949
Specificity in Neural Functioning

Ben Philpot, Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1997
Modification of Cerebral Cortex by Sensory Experience

Scott H. Randell, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1985
Airway Epithelial Cell Biology - Stem Cells, Host Defense and Response to Injury

Lola M. Reid, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974
Growth and Differentiation of Stem Cells

Robert L. Rosenberg, Professor of Pharmacology and Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
Regulation of Ion Channels

Aldo Rustioni, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Anatomy and Cell and Molecular Physiology
M.D., University of Parma, 1965
Neuroanatomy/Neurophysiology

Robert Sealock, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1972
Cell Biology of the Neuromuscular Junction and of Dystrophin-Associated Proteins

Virginia K. Shea, Lecturer, Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977

Susan S. Smyth, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992; M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994
Molecular Basis of Vascular Disease

William Snider, Professor of Neurology and Cell and Molecular Physiology
M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977
Developmental Regulation by Neuronal Growth Factors

Ann E. Stuart, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology and Ophthalmology
Ph.D., Yale University, 1969
Processing of Information from Receptors; Histamingergic Mechanisms

Nobuyuki Takahashi, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Cell and Molecular Physiology
MD, Tohoku University, 1989; PhD, Tohoku University, 1995
Mechanism of hypertension, diabetic complications, and obesity using genetically engineered animals

Robert Tarran, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1998
Regulation of airway epithelial ion transport


Tony G. Waldrop, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
Hypertension, Developmental Neurobiology, Effects of Hypoxia on Brainstem Neurons

Barry Whitsel, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1965
Sensory Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology