Biomedical Sciences Department
Faculty
Department Chair/Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: Neuroimmune interactions during aging and neurodegenerative diseases
- colin.combs@UND.edu
- 701.777.4025
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W316
Associate Professor
- david.s.bradley@UND.edu
- 701.777.2610
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W321
Associate Professor
Specialties: Lyme disease, spirochetes, bacterial pathogenesis
- catherine.brissette@UND.edu
- 701.777.6412
- Neuroscience Building, Room 118A
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: Aging, endocrinology, metabolism, oxidative stress
- holly.brown.borg@UND.edu
- 701.777.3949
- Neuroscience Building, Room 140
Asst Dean for Med Curriculum
- patrick.carr@UND.edu
- 701.777.2576
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room E461
Associate Professor
- xuesong.chen@UND.edu
- 701.777.0919
- Neuroscience Building, Room 112
Associate Professor
Specialties: Chromatin, molecular biology, epigenetics, cancer, next-generation sequencing
- archana.dhasarathy@UND.edu
- 701.777.4285
- Columbia Hall, Room W1733a
Associate Professor
- van.doze@UND.edu
- 701.777.6222
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W418
Associate Professor
- jane.dunlevy@UND.edu
- 701.777.2575
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W430
Assistant Professor
- susan.eliazer@UND.edu
- 701.777.2624
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W325
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Regulation of the dopamine transporter via the post translational modifications palmitoylation
and phosphorylation and their role in health and disease
- james.d.foster@UND.edu
- 701.777.3193
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W217
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology, Neurochemistry, Neurodegenerative diseases, Purines
- jonathan.geiger@UND.edu
- 701.777.2183
- Neuroscience Building, Room 110A
Associate Professor
- mikhail.golovko@UND.edu
- 701.777.2305
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W226
Associate Professor
- bryon.grove@UND.edu
- 701.777.2579
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W230
Assistant Professor
- amanda.haage@UND.edu
- 701.777.6283
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, W124
Associate Professor/Director of Graduate Admissions
Specialties: Molecular, pharmacological, epigenetic and computational analysis of the serotonin
and dopamine transporters and their role in human disease.
- keith.henry@UND.edu
- 701.777.2295
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W218
Associate Professor
Specialties: Bioinformatics, systems pharmacology, epigenomics, diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- jung.hur@UND.edu
- 701.777.6814
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W130
Professor
Specialties: Neurotransmitters, Neuropeptides, Synaptic transmission and plasticity, Ion channels,
Learning and memory, Epilepsy, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Autism,
Hippocampus, Entorhinal Cortex, Interneuron, Patch-clamp, Electrophysiology
- saobo.lei@UND.edu
- 701.777.4745
- Neuroscience Building, Room 148
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Respiratory syncytial virus, Ebola virus, host-pathogen interactions, cytoskeletal
dynamics, virus cell-to-cell spread, Ebola virus RNA editing, antiviral therapeutics
- masfique.mehedi@UND.edu
- 701.777.2293
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, W219
Professor, Associate VP for Research
- barry.milavetz@UND.edu
- 701.777.4280
- Twamley Hall Room, Room 100
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Immunology, Mounting an Immune Response and Myeloid cell Activation, Neuro-immunology,
Epigenetic mechanisms in regulation of inflammation, Role of epigenetics in inflammation-associated/autoimmune
diseases, Parasitology, Sjögren's syndrome
- bibhuti.mishra@UND.edu
- 701.777.4007
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W330
Associate Professor
Specialties: Lipids Biochemistry, Fatty Acid Binding Proteins, n-3 fatty acids, brain lipid metabolism,
higher education, faculty governance, editor
- eric.murphy@UND.edu
- 701.777.3450
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W224
Assistant Professor
- kumi.combs@UND.edu
- 701.777.2559
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences Room W419
Associate Professor
Specialties: Gene regulation, epigenetics, transcription, genomics
- sergei.nechaev@UND.edu
- 701.777.2566
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room 1733c
Associate Professor
Specialties: Microbiology, Bacterial pathogenesis, Roles of type III secretion systems in pathogenesis.
- matthew.nilles@UND.edu
- 701.777.2750
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W322
Associate Professor
Specialties: Pharmacology; Sympathetic Nervous System; Innate Immunity; G-Protein-Coupled, Peptide
and Toll-Like Receptors; Receptor Cross-Talk; Signal Transduction; Molecular Mechanisms
of Pharmacological Action; Arrestins; G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinases; Gq-G11 GTP-Binding
Proteins; MAP Kinase Signaling
- james.porter@UND.edu
- 701.777.2296
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W220
Associate Professor / Graduate Director
Specialties: Alzheimers disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation,
lipid metabolism, brain energy metabolism, lipid-mediated signal transduction, acyl-CoA,
arachidonic acid, eicosanoids, ether phospholipid, plasmalogen, phospholipases, analytical
lipid techniques
- thad.rosenberger@UND.edu
- 701.777.0591
- Neuroscience Building, Room 122
Associate Professor / Assc Dean, SMHS Faculty Affairs
Specialties: Anatomy, Neuroscience, Education, Curriculum Innovation and Program Evaluation, Assessment
of Student Learning, Faculty Development
- 701.777.2570
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room E463
Associate Professor
- john.shabb@UND.edu
- 701.777.4946
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W229
Associate Professor
Specialties: Active Learning, Flipped Classrooms, Problem-based Learning, Girls in STEM, K-12 STEM
Professional Development
- sarah.sletten@UND.edu
- 701.777.4970
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W128
Assistant Professor
- shahram.solaymani@UND.edu
- 701.777.6702
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Rm W220
Assistant Professor
- motoki.takaku@und.edu
- 701.777.2568
- Columbia Hall, RM 1744
- chernet.tessema@UND.edu
- 701.777.4985
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W125
Professor
- alexei.tulin@UND.edu
- 701.777.4922
- Columbia Hall, Room 1733B
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
- roxanne.vaughan@UND.edu
- 701.777.3419
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W216
Associate Professor
- john.watt@UND.edu
- 701.777.6225
- Neuroscience Building, Room 124
- min.wu@UND.edu
- 701.777.4875
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W324
Assistant Professor
- abraam.yakoub@UND.edu
- 701.777.6965
- School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W320
Research Assistant Professors
Research Assistant Professor
- timothy.casselli@und.edu
- 701.777.6414
Arun Chauhan, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
- arun.chauhan@UND.edu
- 701.777.2214
Research Assistant Professor
- santhosh.mukundan@UND.edu
- 701.777.6702
Research Assistant Professor
- suba.nookala@UND.edu
- 701.777.2614
Joint/Adjunct Faculty
Sr Assoc Dean Medicine / Research, Dean's Office Med; Professor, Department of Surgery;
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
- marc.basson@UND.edu
- 701.777.5973
Kate J. (Claycombe) Larson, Ph.D.
Acting Research Leader; USDA-ARS-PA, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
- kate.Larson@ars.usda.gov
- 701.795.8298
Research Assistant Professor, Dean's Office Med; Department of Biomedical Sciences
Kim Hammer, Ph.D.
Research & Development Director, Fargo VA Health Care System; Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Department fo Biomedical Sciences
- kimberly.hammer@va.gov
- 701.239.3700
David S. Terman, MD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at University of Alabama School of
Medicine