Faculty
Mioara Manole, MD, FAAP
Director of Basic and Translational Research, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Associate Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Focus:
Linda McAllister-Lucas, MD, PhD
Research Focus: Dysregulated intracellular signaling in cancer pathogenesis
Colleen McClung, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
Research Focus: Interested in discovering the molecular mechanisms of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and drug addiction
Pamela Moalli, MD, PhD
Fellowship Director, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery, UPMC Medical Education Program, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor, McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor, Clinical & Translational Research Institute
Research Focus: Biomaterials used in reconstructive pelvic surgeries: impact of current devices and the development of novel solutions
Defining mechanisms of maternal birth injury and optimizing repair
Defining mechanisms of failure after reconstructive pelvic surgeries
Defining novel solutions to pelvic floor failure
Deepika Mohan, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery
Research Focus: Physician decision-making in time-sensitive conditions
Heuristics and biase
Kevin Mollen, MD
Samuel P. Harbison Assistant Professor of Surgery, Surgical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Scholar, R.K. Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research
Research Focus: Mitochondrial dysfunction within the intestinal epithelium of patients with IBD
Patrick Moore, MD, MPH
Distinguished and American Cancer Society Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Research Focus: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the viral cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma
Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), the viral cause of Merkel cell carcinoma
Methods to search for undiscovered human tumor viruses
Michael Morowitz, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery and Human Genetics
Research Focus: Dysbiosis and Outcomes after Critical Illness
Alison Morris, MD, MS
Division Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Chair of Translational Pulmonary and Critical Care Research, Vice Chair of Clinical Research for the Department of Medicine , Professor of Medicine, Immunology and Clinical and Translational Research
Research Focus: Translational research on HIV-associated pulmonary disease as well as on the role of the microbiome in pulmonary-related diseases
Radhika Muzumdar, MD
Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Cell Biology
Research Focus: Regulators of glucose metabolism
Novel mitochondria-associated peptides
GH/IGF axis on glucose and energy homeostasis
Role of hypothalamus in whole-body energy and glucose metabolism