Biomedical Science

Message from the Chair

The Department of Biomedical Science is committed to the growth of research and scholarship in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and within Florida Atlantic University. The Department of Biomedical Science (BMS) is the basic science research and teaching arm of the Schmidt College of Medicine. Faculty in the BMS Dept teach both in the undergraduate medical education program and in the BMS graduate program. Faculty mentor medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, in meaningful scholarly and discovery research pursuits that enhance the educational experience, while advancing our understanding of human health and disease.

Research strengths within the Department of Biomedical Science include cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, autoimmune diseases, genetic eye diseases, age related eye diseases such as macular degeneration and cataracts, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, behavioral neurobiology, cancer, infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, genetic variants, chronic pain and opioid addiction.

Patrick A. Grant, Ph.D.

Chair and Professor of Biomedical Science, Senior Associate Dean for Research

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Our Goals

To train doctors and scientists in a collaborative scientific community driven by creativity and innovation

To be a community of scholars who educate future physicians and scientists and advance knowledge through discovery

Faculty

Through discovery, education and service, the BMS faculty strive to be leaders in their areas of research. Using interdisciplinary approaches, BMS faculty perform hypothesis-driven investigations to reveal mechanisms that underlie biological processes and human disease and collaborate with clinical researchers to facilitate the development of novel diagnostics, therapies and preventive measures.

Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D.

Executive Director, FAU Brain Institute | Professor, Biomedical Science

Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

Biomedical Science

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Biomedical Science

Message from the Chair

Patrick A. Grant, Ph.D.

Our Goals

To train doctors and scientists in a collaborative scientific community driven by creativity and innovation

To be a community of scholars who educate future physicians and scientists and advance knowledge through discovery

Faculty

Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D.

Ajay Bommareddy, Ph.D.

Massimo Caputi, Ph.D.

Andrea Cippitelli, Ph.D.

Krinio Giannikou, Ph.D.

Patrick A. Grant, Ph.D.

Xupei Huang, M.D., Ph.D.

Ceylan Isgor, Ph.D.

Marc Kantorow, Ph.D.

Michael Lu, Ph.D.

Andrew Oleinikov, Ph.D.

Eric Parise, Ph.D., M.S.

Lyonna Parise, Ph.D.

Sean M. Paz, Ph.D.

Howard M. Prentice, Ph.D.

Ning Quan, Ph.D.

Claudia de Oliveira Rodrigues, Ph.D.

Wen Shen, Ph.D

Rui Tao, D.V.M., Ph.D., M.S.

Lawrence Toll, Ph.D

Henriette van Praag, Ph.D.

Jianning Wei, Ph.D.

Ewa P. Wojcikiewicz, Ph.D.

Research Faculty

Lisa A. Brennan, Ph.D.

Maureen Hahn, Ph.D.

Akihiko Ozawa, Ph.D.

Marilyn Pray-Grant, M.S.

Yingcai Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Secondary Appointments

Nicole Baganz, Ph.D.

Lucia Carvelli, Ph.D.

Ali A. Danesh, PH.D., FAAA

Katherine Freeman-Costin, Dr.P.H.

Kevin Yunqing Kang, Ph.D.

Qi Zhang, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Carina Arnold, Ph.D.

Zaka Asif, Ph.D.

David Cinalli, Ph.D.

Juliana Marques, Ph.D.

Daniel Nemeth, Ph.D.

Alexandra Paz

Thamires Righi, Ph.D.

Nikhila Suresh, Ph.D.

Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

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