Department Faculty
(Members of the Department either have a primary appointment in Biomedical Sciences or a joint appointment, where which the primary appointment is in another department. In many cases, members of the department also have affiliations with an institute or research institute.)
Leon G Fine, MD
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Chair, Biomedical Sciences
Director, Graduate Research Education
leon.fine@cshs.org, (310) 423-6457
Scientific interests: Chronic renal disease
C Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A.
Director, Women's Heart Center
Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center Women's Guild Endowed Chair in Women's Health
Heart Institute Professor of Medicine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Noel.BaireyMerz@cshs.org, (310) 423-9680
Scientific interests: Development, diagnosis, pathophysiology, and prevention of ischemic heart disease, with an emphasis on gender and sex-specific differences as well as complementary and alternative medical therapies such as meditation and acupuncture.
Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
nissim.benvenisty@cshs.org, (310) 423-7626
Scientific interests: Human embryonic stem cells
Kenneth Bernstein, MD
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Experimental Pathology
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
kenneth.bernstein@cshs.org, (310) 423-7562
Scientific interests: Renin-angiotensin system
Sebastien Fuchs, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
sebastien.fuchs@cshs.org, (310) 423-7746
Scientific interests: Pulmonary fibrosis, Renin-angiotensin system
Mark Greene, MD, PhD, FRCP
Joint with SOCCI
Distinguished Scientist
mark.greene@cshs.org, (310) 423-7640
Scientific interests: Receptor function, small molecules, centrosome and associated proteins
Helen Goodridge, PhD
Joint with Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences, Immunobiology Research Institute
Helen.goodridge@cshs.org, (310) 423-7582
Scientific interests: Innate immunity- detection of microbes and microbial components by myeloid phagcoytes
Anjali Jain, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
Anjali.jain@cshs.org, (310) 423-4780
Scientific interests: Prostate cancer research
Jonathan Kaye, PhD
Joint with SOCCI and Gene Therapeutics Research Institute
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Professor of Medicine
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
jonathan.kaye@cshs.org, (310) 423-6541
Scientific interests: Molecular regulation of immune system
Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, PhD
Joint with Department of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Neuroimmunology laboratory, the Maxine-Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute
Maya.koronyo@cshs.org, (310) 423-7473
Scientific interests: Alzheimer’s disease: repair mechanisms, immunotherapy and early diagnosis assessed by retinal pathology
George Y. Liu, MD PhD
Joint with Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases
and the Immunobiology Research Institute
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
George.liu@cshs.org , (310)423-4471
Scientific interests: Microbial pathogenesis
Alexander Ljubimov, PhD
Joint with Department of Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Director, Division of Ophthamology Research
Alexander.ljubimov@cshs.org, (310) 423-7645
Scientific interests: Gene therapy for diabetic keratopathy.
Lali Medina-Kauwe, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
lali.medinakauwe@cshs.org, (310) 423-7339
Scientific interests: Cancer cell-targeted nanotherapeutics
Sheldon Mink, PhD
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
sheldon.mink@cshs.org, (310) 423-7598
Scientific interests: Prostate cancer research
Sandra Orsulic, PhD
Joint with Department of OB/GYN and Women’s Cancer Research Institute
Director, Women’s Cancer Biology
sandra.orsulic@cshs.org, (310) 423-9546
Scientific interests: Initiation and metastasis of ovarian cancer
V Krishnan Ramanujan, PhD
Joint with Department of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Research Scientist, Minimally Invasive Surgical Technologies Institute (MISTI)
ramanujanv@cshs.org, (310) 423-2090
Scientific interests: Cancer cell transformation, optical imaging.
Leslie Raffel, MD
Joint with Medical Genetics Institute
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, General Clinical Research Center
Associate Director, Common Disease Genetics Program
leslie.raffel@cshs.org, (310) 423-2703
Scientific interests: Delineation of the genetic basis of susceptibility to common adult-onset diseases
Wafa Tawackoli, PhD
Joint with Department of Surgery
Instructor of Surgery
Research Scientist, Biomedical Sciences
Associate Director, Molecular and Micro-imaging Core
wafa.tawackoli@cshs.org, (310) 423-8070
Scientific interests: Spine stem cell therapeutics
Terrence Town, PhD
Joint with Department of Neurosurgery
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Research Scientist, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute
terrence.town@cshs.org, (310) 423-1202
Scientific interests: Delineation of the genetic basis of susceptibility to common adult-onset diseases
David Underhill, PhD
Joint with Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and Translational Medicine
Research Scientist, Immunobiology Research Institute
Director, Flow Cytometry Core
david.underhill@cshs.org, (310) 423-7654
Scientific interests: Phagocyte signal transduction mechanisms in inflammatory response
Yifang (Jimmy) Zhou, PhD
Instructor of Biomedical Sciences
Imaging Physicist
Associate Director, Molecular and Micro-imaging Core
jimmy.zhou@cshs.org, (310) 423-4336
Scientific interests: Quantification of molecular imaging, stem cell imaging, cardiovascular imaging, and the CT dosimetry study.
