Faculty

•   The Department of Physiology and Biophysics enlists more than 18 primary and 35 secondary faculty committed to academic and scientific excellence. Our goal is to train the next generation of world leaders in the field of biomedical science.

•    We employ a highly innovative research approach, teaching, and individual mentoring of graduate students; this maximizes faculty-student interaction and emphasizes the use of state-of-the-art experimental approaches.

•    We encourage interactive and collegial sharing of ideas and techniques; in this way our faculty members provide opportunities for integrated research approaches in biomedical research.

•   Our faculty members are committed to expert, ground-breaking, and interactive teaching. The effectiveness of this is emphasized by a vibrant PhD program, a newly developed Master in Medical Physiology program, and an invaluable contribution to the School of Medicine's redesigned curriculum.

Primary Faculty

Walter F. Boron, MD, PhD
Myers/Scarpa Professor and Chair
walter.boron@case.edu

Boron Lab
Regulation of intracellular pH, gas channels

George R. Dubyak, PhD
Professor
george.dubyak@case.edu

Signal transduction by extracellular nucleotides in inflammation and immunity

Jeffrey L. Garvin, PhD
Professor
jeffrey.garvin@case.edu

Garvin Lab
Regulation of nephron transport, salt-sensitive hypertension and cross-talk between tubules and vessels

Stephen W. Jones, PhD
Professor
stephen.w.jones@case.edu

Voltage-dependent ion channels

Joseph C LaManna, PhD
Professor
joseph.lamanna@case.edu

Angiogenesis, chronic hypoxia, cerebral ischemia

Thomas M. Nosek, PhD
Professor
thomas.nosek@case.edu

Cellular basis of muscle fatigue

William P. Schilling, PhD
Professor
william.schilling@case.edu

Structure, function, and regulation of mammalian trpc channels

Witold K. Surewicz, PhD
Professor
witold.surewicz@case.edu

Molecular basis of prion diseases and other disorders of protein misfolding

Matthias Buck, MA, DPhil
Associate Professor
matthias.buck@case.edu

Buck Lab
Protein-Protein Interactions in Cell Signaling of small GTPases, Plexin and Eph receptors

Andrea Romani, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
andrea.romani@case.edu

Regulation of magnesium homeostasis and transport in mammalian cells

Corey Smith, PhD
Associate Professor
corey.smith@case.edu

Smith Lab
Regulation of the sympatho-adrenal stress response.

Sudha Chakrapani, PhD
Assistant Professor
sudha.chakrapani@case.edu

Understanding the role of structure and dynamics in the functioning of ion channels

Margaret P. Chandler, PhD
Assistant Professor
margaret.chandler@case.edu

Myocardial energy metabolism under pathophysiological conditions (e.g. heart failure, hypertrophy, insulin resistance and diabetes)

Christopher P. Ford, PhD
Assistant Professor
christopher.ford@case.edu

Ford Lab
Regulation of Dopamine Synaptic Transmission

Tingwei Mu, PhD
Assistant Professor
tingwei.mu@case.edu

Mu Lab
Understanding ion channel protein homeostasis in the cell

Xin Qi, PhD
Assistant Professor
xxq38@case.edu

Mitochondrial dysfunction in disease

Rajesh Ramachandran, PhD
Assistant Professor
rajesh.ramachandran@case.edu

Molecular mechanisms of membrane remodeling, fission and fusion in endocytosis and mitochondrial dynamics

Tomasz Religa, PhD
Assistant Professor
tomasz.religa@case.edu

Mechanisms of chaperone-assisted protein folding

Julian E. Stelzer, PhD
Assistant Professor
julian.stelzer@case.edu

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cardiac muscle contraction in health and disease

Mark D. Parker, PhD
Instructor
mark.d.parker@case.edu

Boron Lab
Sodium-coupled bicarbonate transporters

Secondary Faculty

Richard J. Martin, MD
Professor
richard.martin1@case.edu

Calvin U. Cotton, PhD
Associate Professor
calvin.cotton@case.edu

Robert H. Miller, PhD
Professor
robert.miller@case.edu

Paul E. DiCorleto, PhD
Professor
paul.dicorleto@case.edu

Daniel I. Simon, MD
Professor
daniel.simon@case.edu

Mary D. Barkley, PhD
Professor
mary.barkley@case.edu

Cathleen R. Carlin, PhD
Professor
cathleen.carlin@case.edu

Cell compartmentalization and signaling

Anthony F. DiMarco, MD
Professor
anthony.dimarco@case.edu

J. Kevin Donahue, MD
Professor
jkevin.donahue@case.edu

Mark E. Dunlap, MD
Professor
mark.dunlap@case.edu

Brian D. Hoit, MD
Professor
brian.hoit@case.edu

Mukesh K. Jain, MD
Professor
mukesh.jain2@case.edu

Richard A. Walsh, MD
Professor
richard.walsh@case.edu

Isabelle Deschenes, PhD
Assistant Professor
isabelle.deschenes@case.edu

Anne Hamik, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
anne.hamik@case.edu

Thomas Egelhoff, PhD
Professor
thomas.egelhoff@case.edu

Faramarz Ismail-Beigi, MD, PhD
Professor
faramarz.ismail-beigi@case.edu

John R. Sedor, MD
Professor
john.sedor@case.edu

Kingman P. Strohl, MD
Professor
kingman.strohl@case.edu

M. Michael Wolfe, MD
Professor
michael.wolfe2@case.edu

Sichun Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor
sichun.yang@case.edu

Carole M. Liedtke
Professor
carole.liedtke@case.edu

Liedtke Lab
Regulation of epithelial ion transporters in health and disease

Christopher G. Wilson
Assistant Professor
cgwilson@case.edu

Vera Moiseenkova-Bell, PhD
Assistant Professor
vera.moiseenkova-bell@case.edu

Molecular mechanisms and structural basis of pain sensation

Arie Horowitz, DSc
Assistant Professor
arie.horowitz@case.edu

The regulation of endothelial cell dynamics in sprouting vessels; the role of membrane trafficking in the intracellular signaling of endothelial cells.

Saurav Misra, PhD
Assistant Professor
saurav.misra@case.edu