Faculty
Fadi Lakkis, MD
Frank & Athena Sarris Chair in Transplantation Biology, Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Immunology and Medicine, Scientific Director of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
Research Focus: Fundamental mechanisms of acute and chronic rejection in solid organ transplantation
David Lewis, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry , Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Thomas Detre Professor of Academic Psychiatry
Research Focus: Neural circuitry of the prefrontal cortex and related brain regions, and the alterations of this circuitry in schizophrenia
Philana Lin, MD, MSc
Fellowship Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Program, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Research Focus:
Peter Lucas, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pathology, Director of Translational Pathology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Research Focus: Relationship between chronic inflammation and the development of vascular, metabolic, and neoplastic diseases
Beatriz Luna, PhD
Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Research Focus: Brain basis underlying the transition from adolescent to adult level cognitive control (working memory, response inhibition, reward processing). fMRI, DTI, PET, MRSI and cognitive testing are used