A sample of potential research mentors from a campus-wide pool for the UC San Diego FOCUS program are found in the table and links below.
For a comprehensive list of faculty and specific research, please visit the following departments directly:
Also, please visit the IRACDA website for additional mentor choices: http://iracda.ucsd.edu/Research_Mentors.html
Note that the pool of mentors is always increasing and if you are a mentor interested in being a part of the FOCUS program, please email hsfacaffairs@ucsd.edu.
| Trejo, JoAnn, Ph.D. | Pharmacology | Signaling vascular biology |
| Ross, Robert, M.D. | Medicine | Cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion in the adult and developing myocardium |
| Brown, Joan Heller, Ph.D. | Pharmacology | G Protein signaling in heart failure inflammation and cancer |
Chen, Ju, Ph.D.
| Medicine | Molecular basis of cardiac disease |
| Chi, Neil, M.D. / Ph.D. | Medicine | Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and the development. |
| Engler, Adam, Ph.D. | Bioengineering | Stem Cells in Cardiovascular Disease |
| Evans, Sylvia, Ph.D. | Pharmacy | Heart development and regeneration |
| Glass, Chris, M.D. / Ph.D. | Cellular and Molecular Medicine | Transcription factors and co-regulators in function and differentiation of macrophages |
| Gustafsson, Asa, Ph.D. | Pharmacy | Mitochondria and Heart Failure |
| McCulloch, Andrew, Ph.D. | Bioengineering | Structure of cardiac muscle; electrical and mechanical function of the heart |
| Omens, Jeffrey, Ph.D. | Medicine | Cardiac mechanics, mechanobiology and computational modeling of heart disease |
| Patel, Hemal, Ph.D. | Anesthesiology | The role of caveolae and caveolins |
| Roth, David, M.D. / Ph.D. | Anesthesiology | Cell survival and growth in ischemia and reperfusion injury, heart failure, and aging |
| Sheikh, Farah, Ph.D. | Medicine | Biomechanical stress responses in cardiac muscle and genetic-based cardiac disease |
| Shyy, John, Ph.D. | Medicine | Hemodynamics and Inflammation in vascular disease |
| Villarreal, Francisco, M.D. / Ph.D. | Medicine | Cardioprotection |
| Yelon, Deborah, Ph.D. | Biology | Molecular mechanisms of cardiac development to provide insight to etiologies and treatment of congenital heart diseases.
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