Research Investigators

Research Investigators

Ryan Askeland, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor; Cytopathology/Surgical Pathology. Interests: Diagnostic surgical and cytopathology, breast pathology.

Vladimir P. Badovinac, PhD, Assistant Professor; Interests: Antigen-specific CD8 T cell homeostasis.

Amani Bashir, MBBS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgical and Cytopathology. Interests: Surgical Pathology with special interest in Breast, gynecologic and urologic pathology and Cytopathology special interests in performing and interpreting fine needle aspirations and an interest in salivary gland cytology.

Gary L. Baumbach, MD, Professor; Director of Neuropathology and the Neuropathology Fellowship Program. Interests: Vascular biology and pathophysiology in hypertension, aging, diabetes and brain tumors.

Andrew M Bellizzi, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgical Pathology. Interests: Diagnosis, classification, and etiopathogenesis of human disease (especially gastrointestinal, liver, and pancreatobiliary).

Jackie R. Bickenbach, PhD, Professor, Assistant Director of the Biosciences Graduate Program. Interests: Identifying the molecular mechanisms underlying stem cell maintenance and developing potential clinical applications for stem cells.

Aaron Bossler, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Molecular Pathology. Interests: Development and validation of rapid and cost effective molecular assays, bacterial antibiotic resistance surveillance and detection of difficult-to-grow organisms.

Leslie A. Bruch, MD, Clinical Professor; Neuropathology. Interests: Diagnostic neuropathology, particularly the application of immunohistochemistry and molecular techniques in the diagnosis, classification and epidemiology of brain tumors.

Michael B. Cohen, MD, Professor and Head of Pathology; Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology. Interests: Prostate cancer biology, receptor-ligand-mediated apoptosis.

Laila Dahmoush, MD, Clinical Associate Professor; Cytopathology/Surgical Pathology. Interests: fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNA), diagnostic cytopathology, gynecologic, breast and urologic pathology.

Morris O. Dailey, MD, PhD, Associate Professor. Interests: Cell surface adhesion molecules,
T cell activation, and receptor-mediated control of lymphocyte migration.

Barry R. De Young, MD, Clinical Professor; Co-Laboratory Director of Anatomic Pathology; Director of Surgical Pathology and Director Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program. Interests: Orthopedic pathology, immunohistochemistry, head and neck pathology, breast pathology.

Daniel J. Diekema, MD, Clinical Professor, Medicine and Pathology. Interests: several aspects of hospital epidemiology and clinical mycology, including the epidemiology of invasive fungal infections in hospitalized patients and the use of molecular typing in infection control and antimicrobial resistance control.

Adam Dupuy, PhD, Assistant Professor; Anatomy and Cell Biology. Interests: Cancer Biology, Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy.

Yasuko Erickson, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor. Interests: Transfusion Medicine and residents education.

Dennis Firchau, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor. Interests: Autopsy and forensic pathology; cardiovascular pathology.

Katherine Gibson-Corley, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor. Interests: Animal models, Comparative pathology, Rodent pathology, Neuropathology, Adaptive immunity, Infectious diseases, Immunoparasitology.

Apollina Goel, PhD, Assistant Professor; Radiation Oncology. Interests: Understanding and circumventing chemo-radiotherapy resistance in B-cell malignancies.

Leana Guerin, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor. Interests: General surgical pathology with a special interest in GI and liver pathology.

Hasem Habelhah, PhD, Associate Professor. Interests: TRAF2 phosphorylation and ubiquitination, oncoprotein- and stress-induced NF–κB activation and cancer cell resistance to TNFα- and stress-induced apoptosis.

John Harty, PhD, Professor; Microbiology. Interests: Immunology, T cell responses to infection.

Thomas Haugen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Pathology, VAMC, Iowa City. Interests: Human papillomavirus associated cancer, molecular biology of papillomavirus carcinogenesis.

Michael Henry, PhD, Associate Professor; Physiology and Biophysics. Interests: Prostate cancer biology, organ site-specific metastasis, bioluminescence imaging.

Jonathan W. Heusel, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor; Molecular Pathology. Interests: Natural Killer (NK) cell responses in viral infection and malignancy; NK cell alloreactivity in the setting of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; clinical molecular test development.

Carol J. Holman, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Hematopathology. Interests: Bone marrow and lymph node pathology, flow cytometry including minimal residual disease detection, Epstein-Barr virus.

Fiorenza Ianzini, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Large Scale Digital Cell Analysis System (LSDCAS). Interests: Cell cycle deregulation and molecular mechanisms of cancer promotion. Application of the Large Scale Digital Cell Analysis System (LSDCAS) to the study of various cellular and molecular phenomena.

Michael S. Icardi, MD, Clinical Associate Professor; Immunopathology. Interests: Transplant Pathology, Hepatitis C, Allograft microchimerism.

Marina Ivanovic, MD, Clinical Associate Professor; Cytopathology/Surgical Pathology. Interests: Diagnostic surgical pathology and cytopathology.

Siegfried Janz, MD, Professor. Interests: Cancer genetics, B cell and plasma cell neoplasms in humans and mice.

Chris Jensen, MD, Clinical Professor; Director, Division of Cytopathology and Cytopathology Fellowship Program. Interests: Cytopathology, fine needle aspiration (FNA) and gastrointestinal and liver pathology.

John Kemp, MD, Professor. Interests: Basic immunology and diagnostic immunopathology. Prior work has involved autoimmunity, immunoregulation, immunodeficiency, immunotherapy, and the study of the structure of the transferrin receptor gene.

Patricia A. Kirby, MD, Clinical Professor; Anatomical Pathology faculty; Laboratory liaison officer. Interests: Brain tumors, neurodegenerative disorders, ocular and pediatric pathology.

J. Stacey Klutts, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor. Interests: Mechanisms of fungal cell wall synthesis and drug target identification; Development and application of novel fungal diagnostics.

C. Michael Knudson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Transfusion. Interests: , Bcl-2/Bax and regulation of apoptosis, oncogenesis, and proliferation. REDOX regulation of apoptosis.

Matthew D. Krasowski, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor; Director of Clinical Laboratories. Interests: toxicology, chemoinformatics, drug metabolism, bile acid biology, hepatic nuclear hormone receptors, molecular evolution.

Kevin L. Legge, PhD, Associate Professor, Dendritic Cell Immunobiology. Interests: Dendritic cell (DC) migration/maturation, DC activation of T cells, DC-respiratory virus interaction.

Vincent Liu, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology. Interests: Dermatopathology and general dermatology.

Charles Lynch, MD, PhD, Professor and Medical Director of Statewide Cancer Registry. Interests: Population-based disease surveillance, particularly cancer, cancer epidemiology, environmental epidemiology and anatomic pathology.

Deqin Ma, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Molecular Pathology and Surgical Pathology. Interests: Mechanism of tumor suppressor and metastatic suppressor; clinical molecular test development on solid tumors and hematopoietic malignancies.

David K. Meyerholz, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor. Interests: Animal models of human disease, Comparative pathology, Dermatopathology, Developmental/aged-dependent disease, Host-pathogen interaction, Innate immunity, Pulmonary pathology, Viral pathogenesis and VEGF regulation.

Frank A. Mitros, MD, Professor, Surgical Pathology. Interests: Diagnostic surgical pathology, gastrointestinal motility disorders, neuroendocrine aspects of the stomach, Barrett's esophagus, celiac disease, hepatitis C, and hemachromatosis.

Steven A. Moore, MD, PhD, Professor. Interests: muscular dystrophy, dystroglycan function in nervous system, astrocyte biology, blood-brain barrier.

Ramesh Nair, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Renal Pathology. Interests: Pathology of medical renal diseases and renal transplant pathology.

Marcus Nashelsky, MD, Clinical Professor; Co-Laboratory Director of Anatomic Pathology and Director of Autopsy Services. Interests: Utility of the autopsy procedure for clinical quality improvement; accuracy of death certification.

Alicia K. Olivier, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor. Interests: Comparative pathology, Animal models of human disease, Rodent pathology.

Dawn Quelle, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology. Interests: Molecular Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Cell Cycle Control.

Thomas J. Raife, MD, Clinical Professor; Medical Director of DeGowin Blood Center and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program; Head of Hemapheresis Services. Interests: Pathogenesis of microvascular thrombosis in thrombotic microangiopathic disorders.

Robert A. Robinson, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine. Interests: Head and neck pathology, including surgical pathology and cytopathology.

Nancy S. Rosenthal, MD, Clinical Professor and Vice Chair for Educational Affairs and Section Director of Hematopathology and Director of Hematopathology Fellowship Program. Interests: Bone marrow pathology, coagulation.

Annette J. Schlueter, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Assistant Medical Director, DeGowin Blood Center and Head of Transplant Services. Interests: Dendritic cell development, the effect of ethanol consumption on dendritic cell function, the role of dendritic cells and aging on graft versus host disease, hematopoietic progenitor cell processing and immune reconstitution following transplant.

Andrean Simons-Burnett, PhD, Assistant Professor. Interests: Cancer biology, mechanisms of resistance to EGFR/Akt inhibitors, NOX signaling pathways, oxidative stress, redox regulation of IL-6 and energy metabolism.

Mary S. Stone, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Pathology; Director of Dermatopathology. Interests: Dermatopathology and medical dermatology.

Stefan Strack, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology. Interests: Reversible phosphorylation in neuronal (dys)function.

Brian L. Swick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dermatology. Interests: Clinical dermatology and dermatopathology.

Nasreen A. Syed, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Pathology. Interests: Ocular Pathology, Uveitis.

Sergei I. Syrbu, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Hematopathology/ Immunopathology. Interests: Bone marrow pathology, lymphoproliferative disorders, serologic examination of autoimmune processes.

Robert Tucker, MD, PhD, Associate Professor. Interests: Thermal treatment of prostate cancer, electrosurgical laparoscopy.

Lubomir Turek, MD, Professor. Interests: Genetics of papillomavirus infection and cancer.

Steven M. Varga, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology. Interests: Viral immunology and immunopathology.

Steven D. Vincent, DDS, MS, Professor and Head, Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine. Interests: Diagnosis and management of oral candidosis, oral cancer, papilloma and herpes simplex virus infection and radiation mucositis.

Thomas Waldschmidt, PhD, Professor; Director, Pathology Graduate Programs; Co-Director, Pathology Flow Cytometry Facility. Interests: B cell immunology, bone marrow transplantation.