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Affiliated Faculty

This list of affiliated investigators can help you identify potential research mentors at the University of Pittsburgh. PSTP students can, and do, work with mentors not on this list, but the investigators featured below have expressed interest in hosting PSTP students in their laboratories.

Falo
Louis Falo, MD, PhD
Research Areas: Dermatology
Research Summary:

Developing a better understanding of cutaneous biology and skin immune function, and leveraging that evolving understanding to develop new skin-targeted strategies to modulate local and systemic immune responses

Federspiel
William Federspiel, PhD
Research Areas: Bioengineering
Research Summary:

Respiratory assist and blood processing devices for critical care medicine; Cardiovascular and pulmonary transport phenomena 

Ferrarelli
Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, PhD
Research Areas: Neuroscience, Psychiatry
Research Summary:

The neurobiology of schizophrenia and neurophysiological abnormalities during wakefulness and sleep in early course psychosis

Ferris
Robert Ferris, MD, PhD
Research Areas: Cancer
Research Summary:

Mechanisms of immune escape and clinical translation to therapeutic cancer immunotherapy trials

Finkel
Toren Finkel, MD, PhD
Research Areas: Cardiovascular
Research Summary:

Intersection of mitochondrial function, metabolism and aging

Flynn
Joanne Flynn, PhD
Research Areas: Infectious Diseases
Research Summary:

Immunology and Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis

Freeman
Bruce Freeman, PhD
Research Areas: Pharmacology
Research Summary:

The production and signal transduction properties of oxidizing and free radical mediators in metabolic, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases

Freyberg
Zach Freyberg, MD, PhD
Research Areas: Neuroscience, Psychiatry
Research Summary:

Dopaminergic signal transduction in the central nervous system, dopamine role in regulating peripheral pancreatic insulin secretion

Friedlander
Robert Friedlander, MD
Research Areas: Neurosurgery, Surgery
Research Summary:

The study of the basic mechanisms of apoptosis, as mediated by the caspase apoptotic family in neurologic diseases