Faculty
Udai Pandey, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Human Genetics & Neurology
Research Focus: Cellular and molecular basis of human neurodegenerative diseases
Marta Peciña, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Research Focus: Depression; Mechanisms of treatment response & placebo effects; Functional and molecular neuroimaging
Mary Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab)
Pittsburgh Foundation-Emmerling Endowed Chair in Psychotic Disorders, Director of the Mood and Brain Laboratory, The Clinical and Translational Affective Neuroscience Program, Professor, Psychiatry and Translational Science
Research Focus: The use of multimodal neuroimaging techniques to elucidate functional and structural abnormalities in emotion processing, reward processing and emotional regulation circuitries that are associated with specific psychiatric disorders, and symptom dimensions in individuals with mood and anxiety disorders
Edward Prochownik, MD, PhD
Director of Oncology Research, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Paul C. Gaffney Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry Section of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Research Focus: Evaluation of molecular inhibitors of the c-myc oncoprotein
Regulation of and by the Myc oncoprotein
Function and pharmacologic regulation of the c-Myc oncoprotein
Impact of c-Myc oncoprotein expression on cellular metabolism