Jussuf T. Kaifi
As a surgeon scientist, Chief of the Division for Cardiothoracic Surgery and co-Director for Clinical Trials at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri, my overarching goal is to translate basic science discovery into improved clinical care for patients suffering from lung cancer. I have spent my career studying solid cancers using cancer mouse models and liquid biomarkers. My efforts in this field of translational cancer research have resulted in >125 peer-reviewed publications. I initiated investigator-initiated observational clinical trials involving biospecimens at the University of Missouri (NCT02838836) and the Truman VA (NCT03551951) that led to several recent publications…
Zezong Gu
Research in the Zezong Gu laboratory focuses on the studies of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and cerebral ischemia. This includes associated aging-related neurodegenerative diseases in animal models for mechanistic and translational investigations in aiding for the development of biomarkers, preventive and therapeutic strategies. The Gu laboratory uses multi‐disciplinary approaches and paradigms to conduct translational research. The Gu laboratory toolbox includes cell‐free protein interaction, primary neuron cultures including biofidelic 3D cultures, and in vivo rodent models of neurodegenerative diseases, as well as neurobehavioral assessment, digital pathology and quantitative proteomic analyses and bioinformatics. Ultimately, the endeavor of Dr. Gu’s studies supported with…
Praveen Rao
Dr. Praveen Rao is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Missouri (MU). His research interests are in the areas of big data management, data science, health informatics, and cybersecurity. He directs the Scalable Data Science (SDS) Lab at MU. His research, teaching, and outreach activities have been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the University of Missouri System (Tier 1 grant, Tier 3…
Blaine Reeder
Dr. Reeder received his PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2010, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Prior to his academic career, he was a software engineer and technology consulting entrepreneur.
Steven Van-Doren
Steven Van Doren earned a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of Illinois in 1991. He trained further at the University of Michigan in biophysical NMR, a computation-intensive experimental field. His laboratory strives to enrich molecular medicine with biophysical insight. His group uses NMR to characterize biomolecular recognition, especially dynamic interactions of proteins. His group developed TREND software packages for resolving changes occurring across series of NMR spectra, for use in molecular recognition and drug discovery. They are currently developing the TRENDimaging for resolving and correcting motions in dynamic magnetic resonance imaging.
Xiu-Feng (Henry) Wan
Dr. Wan’s long-term career goals are to understand how zoonotic pathogens (especially influenza A viruses) emerge and re-emerge at the animal-human interface and to improve the effectiveness of the influenza vaccines in disease prevention and control by developing and applying systems biology based translational approaches. Translational systems biology is an integrated, multi-scale, evidence-based approach that combines laboratory, clinical and computational methods with an explicit goal of developing effective means of control of biological processes for improving human health and rapid clinical application.
Grant Scott
Grant Scott is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data Science and Informatics at the University of Missouri. He has participated in projects for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), NGA, DIA, Army, Air Force, Army ERDC, NRL, NRO, and DARPA. He is currently mentoring or leading research projects in several areas including data science, machine learning, computer vision, multi-modal analytics, high-performance computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and geospatial analytics. His research interests also include knowledge-driven multidimensional indexing, multimodal analytics, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational intelligence, databases…
Clintin Davis-Stober
Dr. Clintin Davis-Stober is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
R. Keith Slotkin
The Slotkin laboratory uses Arabidopsis thaliana, a reference flowering plant, as a model to investigate how eukaryotic cells repress transposable elements. Transposable elements are fragments of DNA that can duplicate or move from one location to another. Their ability to replicate has resulted in transposable elements occupying vast amounts of most eukaryotic genomes, including nearly half of the human genome. Although often overlooked or dismissed as “junk DNA”, transposable elements have played an important role in the structure and evolution of the eukaryotic genome. However, when transposable elements are active, they cause DNA damage and new mutations by inserting into…