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    • Primary Faculty
      • Noor Akhter, Ph.D.
      • Gwen V. Childs, Ph.D.
      • David L. Davies, Ph.D.
      • Paul D. Drew, Ph.D.
      • Abdallah Hayar, Ph.D.
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      • Angela Odle, Ph.D.
      • Kevin D. Phelan, Ph.D.
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      • Mohsin M. Syed, Ph.D.
    • Secondary and Adjunct Faculty
      • Steve W. Barger, Ph.D.
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      • Sang-hun Lee, Ph.D.
      • Stacy A. Rudnicki, M.D.
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      • Helen Beneš, Ph.D.
      • E. Robert Burns, Ph.D.
      • Jason Y. Chang, Ph.D.
      • M. Donald Cave, Ph.D.
      • Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D.
      • Cynthia (Cindy) J.M. Kane, Ph.D.
      • Robert D. Skinner, Ph.D.
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Retired Faculty

Helen Beneš, Ph.D.   
Professor Emeritus

Sex-specific gene activity for mosquito control; lipid peroxidation during aging and development in insects
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E. Robert Burns, Ph.D.   
Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Experimental oncology and chronochemotherapy; PreK-12 health science outreach
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M. Donald Cave, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Probes for the diagnosis and molecular epidemiology of diseases caused by bacterial pathogens
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Jason Y. Chang, Ph.D.   
Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences, Ophthalmology

Neuronal programmed cell death, neurotoxicity of cholesterol oxides
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Edgar Garcia-Rill, Ph.D.   
Professor Emeritus

Disorders of the reticular activating system and sleep, schizophrenia, depression, PTSD, spinal cord injury
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Cynthia (Cindy) J.M. Kane, Ph.D.   
Professor Emeritus

Regulation of glial-neuronal interactions in the CNS during normal and abnormal brain development
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Robert D. Skinner, Ph.D.   
Professor Emeritus

Spinal cord injury and locomotion pattern generators; midlatency auditory evoked potentials in human brain diseases and the startle response in an animal model
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Shirley Ann Gilmore, Ph.D.
John E. Pauly, Ph.D.
Jerome K. Sherman, Ph.D.

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