Active Members
Catherine J. Andersen, Ph.D., RDN
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: inflammation, immune function, nutrigenomics, HDL/lipoprotein metabolism and function, autoimmunity,
obesity, metabolic dysfunction, NHANES
Raman Bahal, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: new delivery strategies for myriads of synthetic nucleic acid analogues, target genetic diseases using gene correction based technology, selectively target oncogenic microRNAs using novel delivery methods for cancer therapy.
Christopher N. Blesso, Ph.D.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: sphingolipids, cardiometabolic disease, lipoprotein metabolism/function, bioactive compounds, gut microbiome
Sangyong Choi, Ph.D.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, zinc, cancer, cardiometabolic diseases
Adam Kim, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT
Research Interests: bioinformatics, alcohol-associated hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, inflammation, immune responses, pattern-recognition receptors
Oh Sung Kwon, Ph.D.
Department of Kinesiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: mitochondria, bioenergetics, musculoskeletal physiology, cardiovascular physiology
Ji-Young Lee, Ph.D., FAHA, FACN
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, immunometabolism, histone deacetylases, nutrigenomics, NAD metabolism
Youngmok Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT
Research Interests: glycogen storage diseases, glycogen and energy metabolism, gene therapy, liver cancer, kidney disease, immunometabolism
José Manautou, Ph.D., ATS Fellow
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: target organ toxicity, hepatic detoxification and disposition mechanisms, hepatotoxicants and interference affecting susceptibility to chemical injury
Clinton Mathias, Ph.D.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: nutritional immunology, mechanisms of allergic diseases (food allergy, asthma, contact sensitivity), mast cell and natural killer cell biology, immune crosstalk (mast cell, NK cells, and T cells), immunometabolism, metabolic diseases, protein disulfide isomerases, epigenetics
Theodore Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: personalized medicine using stem cells, cell-based therapeutics, nuclear reprogramming and epigenetics, cell-based screens and assays
L. Cody Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: air pollution and respiratory system toxicology, immunology and inflammatory signaling mechanisms, sex steroid signaling and sex differences in inflammation, sex-based health disparities
Xiaobo Zhong, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Research Interests: pharmacogenetics, pharmacoepigenetics, and personalized medicine, developmental pharmacology, epigenetic regulation of cytochrome P450s