LSUHSC Pathology Research Division
Current
Division of Research Projects
The basic science research laboratories within the Division of Research conducts research in many areas. A few are listed below:
Researcher(s)
Basic
Science Research Project
Human
papilloma virus and cervical dysplasia/neoplasia.
Cell
and molecular biology of adhesion molecules with respect to chronic inflammation
and leukocyte-endothelial interactions.
Regulation
of extracellular matrix gene expression in diabetic nephropathy.
Researcher(s)
Additional
Clinical Faculty Research
Morphological
pathology of the bone marrow and lymph nodes, wet hematology with clinico-pathologic
correlation.
Renal Pathology
Application
of ancillary techniques including immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy,
flow cytometry, and molecular genetic techniques to the diagnosis of hematologic
disorders.
Clinical cytogenetics
(cancer cytogenetics), molecular cytogenetics (fluoresence in situ hybridization,
spectral karyotyping), genomic profiling, molecular genetics, flow cytometry
and immunophenotyping of leukemias and lymphomas, digital imaging microscopy.
My primary focus
is to generate new knowledge to better understand the obscure pathologic
processes, to develop clinical applications of newly acquired knowledge,
and to develop new technological procedures for research purposes.
Chromosomal
structure, particularly the 30nm diameter chromatin fiber, and chromosomal
territories in the nucleus, both interests requiring electron microscopy.