Ronald J. Biediger, PhD
Associate Director, Wafic Said Molecular Cardiology Research Laboratory, THI
PO Box 20345, MC 2-255
Houston, TX 77225-0345
832-355-9082; FAX 832-355-9692
e-mail:
rbiediger@texasheart.org
Graduate school: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1992.
Specialty training: Synthetic organic chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Specialty and subspecialties: Medicinal chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry.
Research interests: Small molecule integrin and chemokine agonists and/or antagonists.
Chu-Huang "Mendel" Chen, MD, PhD
Director, Vascular and Medicinal Research
Wafic Said Molecular Cardiology Research Laboratory, THI
PO Box 20345, MC 2-255
Houston, TX 77225-0345
832-355-9026; FAX 832-355-9333
e-mail:
cchen@texasheart.org
Graduate school: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1986.
Medical school: Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, 1978.
Specialty training: Internal medicine residency, Maryland General Hospital at University of Maryland; Cardiology fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
Languages: Taiwanese, Mandarin.
Professional appointments: Clinical Director of Behavioral Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Visiting Professor and Director L5 Research Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan.
Specialty and subspecialties: Vascular biology.
Research interests: Vascular biology, lipid and lipoprotein biochemistry, medicinal research.
Richard A. F. Dixon, PhD
Director,
Wafic Said Molecular Cardiology Research Laboratory, THI
PO Box 20345, MC 2-255
Houston, TX 77225-0345
832-355-9137; FAX 832-355-9692
e-mail:
rdixon@texasheart.org
Graduate school: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 1980.
Specialty training: Molecular biology, Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Research interests: Pharmacology, molecular biology, stem cells.
Mikhail Kolonin, PhD
1825 Pressler St., Room 430-E
Houston, TX 77225-0345
713-500-3146; FAX: 713-500-2208
e-mail:
Mikhail.G.Kolonin@uth.tmc.eduAffiliation: Director, Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Disease, Institute for Molecular Medicine.
Academic Appointment: Associate Professor, UT Health.
Graduate school: UT Health, Houston, TX.
Specialty training: MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2000-2004.
Research interests: Adult stem cell therapy, brown adipose tissue, cancer, angiogenesis, cachexia, regenerative medicine.
Todd K. Rosengart, MD
Professor of Heart and Vascular Disease, Research Scientist, THI
1709 Dryden, Suite 1500, MS-BCM 3900
Houston, TX 77030
713-798-1317; Fax 713-798-6609
e-mail:
todd.rosengart@bcm.edu
Hospital affiliation: CHI St. Luke’s Health, TCH
Academic appointment: Professor and DeBakey-Bard Chair of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine.
Medical school: Northwestern University, Chicago, 1983.
Specialty training: New York University Medical Center, National Institutes of Health.
Certification: American Board of Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
Specialty interests: Minimally invasive valve surgery, gene transfer therapy, cardiac stem cell transplantation.
Robert J. Schwartz, PhD
Director,
Stem Cell Engineering, THI
Co-Director, Heart Failure and Stem Cell Research Laboratories, THI
University of Houston
Center for Molecular Medicine and Experimental Therapeutics
369 Science & Research Bldg. 2
4800 Calhoun
Houston, TX 77204-5001
713-743-6595; FAX 713-743-8351
e-mail:
rjschwartz@uh.edu
Graduate school: Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1972.
Specialty training: Fellowships, University of Pennsylvania; National Institutes of Health; Cell biology, molecular and cellular biology, medicine, molecular physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Professional appointments: Cullen Distinguished Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, head of Center for Gene Regulation and Molecular Therapeutics, University of Houston.
Specialty and subspecialties: Molecular and cellular biology.
Research interests: Developmental and genetic aspects of congenital heart disease; the genetic readout underlying the establishment of cardiac and smooth muscle differentiation; the chemical basis underlying the specification of cell differentiation.
Peter Vanderslice, PhD
Associate Director, Wafic Said Molecular Cardiology Research Laboratory, THI
PO Box 20345, MC 2-255
Houston, TX 77225-0345
832-355-9083; FAX 832-355-9692
e-mail:
pvanderslice@texasheart.org
Graduate school: University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1987.
Specialty training: Parker B. Francis Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
Research interests: Inflammation, cell trafficking.
Darren G. Woodside, PhD
Assistant Director, Wafic Said Molecular Cardiology Research Laboratory, THI
PO Box 20345, MC 2-255
Houston, TX 77225-0345
832-355-9084; FAX 832-355-9692
e-mail:
dwoodside@texasheart.org
Graduate school: The University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 1997.
Specialty training: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.
Research interests: Integrin structure/function, cell trafficking, inflammation.
