University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth, TX·Public·Medical school
4 labs on PI Pages. It spends $110M a year on research and awards 16 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 2,611: 18 undergraduates, 2,593 graduate
- Postdocs
- 17
- Faculty
- 223 full-time
- Campus
- Graduate-focused
Labs here
Xinyue Liu
Biochemistry·Early-career
Identify small-molecule inhibitors of activated caspase-8, the enzyme that initiates extrinsic cell death, using sample-multiplexing mass spectrometry proteomics and antibody-based assays for apoptosis markers in human corneal stromal cells.
Dimitrios Karamichos
Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether abnormal levels of the pituitary hormones FSH and LH, and of their upstream regulator GnRH, unbalance sex hormones and alter the cornea to drive keratoconus, using cell, donor-tissue and animal models.
Suchismita Acharya
Pharmacology
Optimize the dose of SA-2 nanoparticles through toxicokinetic studies, which track drug levels and safety, and test how well they lower eye pressure in mice with Ad5.TGFβ2-induced ocular hypertension and in normal monkey eyes.
Raghu Krishnamoorthy
Pharmacology
Determine whether endothelin-1 (ET-1), a blood-vessel-tightening protein, acts through its ETA and ETB receptors to reduce mitophagy, the removal of damaged mitochondria, in retinal ganglion cells.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.