Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans
New Orleans, LA·Public·Medical school
3 labs on PI Pages. It spends $80M a year on research and awards 24 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 3,043: 1,000 undergraduates, 2,043 graduate
- Postdocs
- 73
- Faculty
- 744 full-time
- Campus
- Graduate-focused
Labs here
Trayambak Pathak
Physiology·Early-career
Test whether calcium entry through Orai3 channels drives mitochondrial heat production in brown adipose tissue to limit fat buildup, by measuring mitochondrial metabolism in Orai3 knockout mice.
Jovanny Zabaleta
Genetics
Provide next-generation sequencing services, including whole transcriptome and RNA sequencing, whole exome sequencing, and array-based DNA methylation and SNP analysis, to cancer research project leaders.
Zezhang Wen
Microbiology & Immunology
Identify the transcriptional and post-transcriptional factors that control expression of brpA, a gene needed for biofilm formation in Streptococcus mutans, using molecular, biochemical and bioinformatics approaches.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.