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A. Sidney Barritt IV, MD, MSCR
· School of Medicine
Clinical Trials, Gastrointestinal Biology, Health Informatics
A. Wesley Burks, MD
· School of Medicine
Investigating the use of oral immunotherapy for children with severe food hypersensitivities to provide insight into the disease and to develop possible new avenues of treatment.
Exploring how to induce tolerance and desensitization in peanut allergy through oral, sublingual or e…
Aadra Bhatt, PhD
· School of Medicine
Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Gastrointestinal Biology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Metabolism, Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Other, Stem Cells, Virology
Aaron Shapiro
Assistant Professor of Technology Studies · College of Arts and Sciences
I’m trained in anthropology, communications, and urban studies, and I try to bring these different traditions to my research and writing. My first book (Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City) is about the frictions of new urban technologies – the ways …
Abelardo DeAnda, MD
Professor · School of Medicine
Adult Cardiac Surgery, Valve replacement/repair, Aortic surgery including aortic dissections, Bloodless cardiac surgery, Connective tissue disorders
Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, MD, PhD
· School of Medicine
Chronic Kidney Disease; Cardiovascular Disease, Dialysis, Epidemiology, Anemia Management
Abhinav Gupta
Assistant Professor of Finance · Kenan-Flagler Business School
Corporate finance, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Labor and finance, Private equity
Adam Akerman, PhD
Assistant Professor · School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Biology, Cardiovascular disease, Cell Biology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology
Adam Akerman, PhD
Assistant Professor · School of Medicine
Diagnostic and therapeutic development in cardiovascular pathology, health disparities and scalable inventions and therapeutics
Adam Bryant Miller, PhD
· School of Medicine
Apps-Devices, Imaging, Mental illness, Pediatrics, Rural Health
Adam Cohn
Assistant Professor, JMA and Sonja van der Horst Fellow in Jewish Studies · College of Arts and Sciences
Hispanic Jewish Studies, Spanish Civil War literature, the work of Federico García Lorca, Sephardi Studies, literary translation
Adam D. Pfefferle, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genetics; Director, LCCC Translational Genomics Lab (TGL) · School of Medicine
Keywords: Assay Development, Cancer Biology, DNA Sequencing, RNA Sequencing, Single-Cell Sequencing, Spatial Transcriptomics, Translational Genomics, Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH
Professor of Family Medicine · School of Medicine
Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Apps-Devices, Behavior, Bioethics, Clinical Trials, Electronic Medicine, Global Health, Health Equity, Health Services, Medical Education, Population-based, Quality and Patient Safety, Social Medicine, Translational Medicine
Adam Gracz, PhD
· School of Medicine
Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells
Adam Hollowell
Teaching Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adam J. Kimple, MD, PhD, FACS, FARS
· School of Medicine
Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Clinical Trials, Drug Discovery, Pathogenesis & Infection, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Pulmonary, Quality of Life, Surgery, Translational Medicine
Adam Jacks, PhD, CCC-SLP
· School of Medicine
Neurological communication disorders (speech/language) in stroke, brain injury, and neurodegenerative disease
Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: Speech-language pathology/therapy
Adam Mersereau
PhD Student · Kenan-Flagler Business School
Adam Mersereau’s research interests are in data-driven dynamic optimization. Dr. Mersereau is particularly interested in settings where decisions are best made by integrating estimation and optimization, as opposed to the usual paradigm of estimating parameters first, then optimi…
Adam O'Fallon Price
Teaching Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
Creative Writing | Narrative Theory | The English Language | The Novel
Adam Palmer, PhD
· School of Medicine
Combination cancer therapy. Most types of cancer can be treated more effectively by combination therapy than by a single therapy. Many cancers can even be cured with combination therapy. We study the mechanisms of action of clinically effective drug combinations, to inform the de…
Adam Rosenthal, PhD
· School of Medicine
Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology
Adele Elise Williams
Teaching Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
Aesthetics | American Literature from 1900 to the present | Contemporary American Literature | Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature | Creative Writing | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Feminist Historiography | Feminist Theory And Gender & S…
Adesola Akinkuotu, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery · School of Medicine
Health literacy, surgical outcomes in pediatric patients, congenital anomalies, fetal interventions
Adesola Akinkuotu, MD, MPH
Recent Faculty Awards · School of Medicine
Minimally invasive surgery, thoracic surgery, congenital anomalies, and prenatal counseling
Adeyemi "Yemi" Ogunleye, MD
· School of Medicine
Microvascular Surgery and Complex Oncologic Reconstruction, Hand Surgery, Flap neurotization, Surgical treatment of Lymphedema, Neuroma and Nerve Surgery. Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: Neuroma and nerve surgery
Adeyemi "Yemi" Ogunleye, MD, SM
Associate Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery · School of Medicine
Microvascular Surgery and Complex Oncologic Reconstruction, Hand Surgery, Flap neurotization, Surgical treatment of Lymphedema, Neuroma and Nerve Surgery
Adi Nester
Assistant Professor and Levine-Sklut Fellow in Jewish Studies · College of Arts and Sciences
My research and teaching interests focus on the interrelations of music, literature, and philosophy in the German and German-Jewish traditions. I am especially interested in the ways in which aesthetics and aesthetic theories inform our understanding of concepts like identity and…
Adrian Marchetti
· School of Medicine
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Ecology, Genomics, Physiology
Adriana Beltran, PhD
Associate Professor · School of Medicine
Genome engineering, stem cells, reprogramming, iPSCs, cell fate and differentiation, organoids, breast cancer organoids
Adrienne Cox
· School of Medicine
Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine
Afroz Taj
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
South Asian media, film industry and television, origins of the Urdu-Hindi musical theater, transition from Parsi theater to early sound films, aesthetics of cinema, filmmaking techniques and technologies, history of Bollywood, impact of Shama magazine on South Asian popular cult…
Ageliki Tsagaratou, PhD
PhD Student · School of Medicine
Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Systems Biology
Aimee Dickey, PA
PA · School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ajay Gulati, MD
· School of Medicine
Cell Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Microbiology
Al Duncan
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
cognition; philosophy and literature; dramatic fragments; the reception, translation, and transformation of classical works (especially in South Africa), and connections between performance and pedagogy.
Alain Laederach
· School of Medicine
Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Molecular Biology, Systems Biology
Alaina Garland
Teaching Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alan Jones
Professor of Surgery,Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine · School of Medicine
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Genetics, Pharmacology
Alan Nelson
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Albert Bowers, PhD
Professor; Division Vice Chair, Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry · School of Medicine
Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Pharmacology, Translational Medicine
Albert Hinn, MD
Professor of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology · School of Medicine
Epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology, intraoperative monitoring.
Albert S. Baldwin, PhD
William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor · School of Medicine
Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine
Alex Rubinsteyn
Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Genetics · School of Medicine
Key Words: genomics; machine learning; neoantigens; cancer vaccines; personalized medicine
Alex Worsnip
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
Alex’s primary research interests are in epistemology and in the theory of normativity (construed broadly to include both metaethics and theories of reasons and rationality). He also has interests in related parts of philosophy of language and mind, first-order moral and politica…
Alexander H. Toledo, MD
Professor · School of Medicine
Solid Organ Transplant, Pediatric Transplant, Living-Related Organ Donation, Immunology
Alexander Tropsha, PhD
K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor · School of Medicine
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Molecular Medicine, Structural Biology, Toxicology
Alexander V. Kabanov, PhD, DrSci
· School of Medicine
Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Translational Medicine
Alexander Varchenko
PhD Student · College of Arts and Sciences
Mathematical physics, algebraic geometry, representation theory, combinatorics, number theory, complex analysis
Alexandra Allaun, PA-C
· School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexandrea Ravenelle
Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
Work, Organizations and Occupations, Social Stratification, Economy and Society, Qualitative Research, Entrepreneurship
Ali Mohammad Nezhad
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
Optimization, Computational Complexity, Real Algebraic Geometry, and Applied Topology
Alice Ammerman
Mildred Kaufman Distinguished Professor · Gillings School of Global Public Health
Aging, Behavior Science, Cancer, Diabetes, Health Equity, Health Services and Systems Strengthening, Heart Disease and Stroke, Implementation Science, Nutrition and Physical Activity, Obesity, Oral Health, Public Health Studies (Design, Conduct and Analysis)
Alice Churukian
· College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alicia Shade
Teaching Associate Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alisa S. Wolberg, PhD
Professor, Vice Chair for Basic Science Research · School of Medicine
Blood (patho)biology and its role in hemostasis, thrombosis, inflammation, and related diseases, including cancer-associated thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, liver failure, COVID-19, oral contraceptive-induced thrombosis, hemophilia, and other diseases
Alison Stuebe, MD
Professor · School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alison Stuebe, MD, MSc
· School of Medicine
Health Services, Medical Education, Rural Health, Women's Health
Allen Hurlbert
Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
In the Hurlbert Lab we ask questions about the structure of ecological communities, and the processes that are responsible for determining the patterns of diversity, composition, turnover and relative abundance both within local assemblages and across the globe. Our work spans ve…
Allison Binkley
Director of Career, Alumni, and Employer Engagement, MPA Program · School of Government
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Allison Lazard
Professor · Hussman School of Journalism and Media
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amanda Brinson
Assistant Professor and PNP Program Director · School of Nursing
general pediatric primary health care with special emphasis on routine well visits, newborn and infant health, breastfeeding, asthma and respiratory health, allergies, school health, immunizations and adolescent health
Amanda C. Sawyer
Associate Professor · Gillings School of Global Public Health
Aging, Teaching and Learning Methods
Amanda Cobb-Greetham
John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor in Native Southern Studies · College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amanda L. Thompson
Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy, Department of Anthropology; Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
Human growth and development, nutrition, infant and young child feeding, water and food insecurity, dual burden of disease, early life determinants of body composition and obesity, global health research
Amanda Marie Martínez
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Amanda Reid
Associate Professor · Hussman School of Journalism and Media
freedom of expression, intellectual property, privacy, technological governance, branding, trademark law, symbols, semiotics
Amarjit Budhiraja
Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
large deviations, stochastic control, stochastic differential games, stochastic networks, stochastic partial differential equations, random graphs, stochastic numerics, nonlinear filtering
Amarjit S. Budhiraja
Professor · School of Data and Information Sciences
Probability, Stochastic Analysis, and Large Deviations
Amber Woodard, DNP, MBA, RN-BC
· School of Medicine
Clinical Informatics, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Implementation Science, Pediatrics, Population-based, Quality and Patient Safety, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Social Determinants of Health, Women's Health
Amir H. Khandani, MD, Dr med
Professor of Radiology and Division Chief of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics · School of Medicine
Cancer Biology, Clinical Informatics, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Health Services, Imaging, Medical Education, Molecular Medicine, Quality and Patient Safety
Amol Yadav, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor · School of Medicine
Rehabilitation Engineering
Neural engineering
Neuroscience
Amy Adkins, PhD
· School of Medicine
Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Imaging, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation
Amy Brownlee, MD
· School of Medicine
Cancer, Cancer Biology, Education Research, Gastrointestinal Biology, Global Health, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Medical Education, Pathology, Translational Medicine
Amy G. Bryant, MD, MSCR
· School of Medicine
Bioethics, Health Equity, Medical Education, Women's Health
Amy M. Goetzinger, PhD
· School of Medicine
Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: Pain
—Stress and coping among individuals with chronic illness, including chronic pain and organ transplant recipients.
—Caregiver stress and burden
—Depression and PTSD among patients with chronic pain
—Opioid use disorder and preventio…
Amy Oldenburg
Professor · School of Medicine
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) of upper airways, airway epithelium, nose; airway wall elastography, biofluid viscoelasticity
OCT of 3D models of breast cancer and environmental exposures
Ultrasound of pre-clinical models for thrombosis or similar using magnetomotive contrast
Amy Shaub Maddox
· School of Medicine
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
Ana María Silva Campo
Assistant Professor · College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Silva Campo specializes in the era of Spanish colonial rule in the region that is now Colombia.
Her first book,The Inquisition’s Gambit: Making Wealth and Race in Cartagena de Indias(University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2026), examines how religious persecution beca…
Ana Vinea
Assistant Professor & Jordan Family Fellow · College of Arts and Sciences
medicine, occult practices, religion, and popular culture
Anahit C. Mehrabyan, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology · School of Medicine
Clinical Interests - Hereditary diseases of the muscle, autoimmune disease of the muscle, autoimmune diseases of neuromuscular junction. Research interests - hereditary and autoimmune disease of muscle.
Andrea Biondi
PhD Student · School of Nursing
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrea Bozoki, MD
Professor of Neurology Division Chief for Memory and Cognitive Disorders Outreach and Engagement Core Leader for the Duke/UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center · School of Medicine
Imaging and fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and Related Disorders.
Clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease and Related Disorders.
Andrea Knittel
PhD Candidate · School of Medicine
Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Aging/Geriatrics, Behavior, Criminal Justice, HIV/AIDS, Women's Health
Andrea Kurasz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuropsychology · School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrea Markl Corse, MD
Professor of Neurology · School of Medicine
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andres Rojas, MD
· School of Medicine
Educational assessment tools, specifically in medical graduate education
Regional anesthesia – techniques, improvement in acute pain