AGOLD Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Faculty members from the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Sciences will be available to mentors.
| Name of Mentor | Faculty Title | Research Interest |
| Bowler, Russell P., M.D., Ph.D. | Professor | Genetics and proteomics of COPD |
| Downey, Gregory, M.D. | Professor | Acute Respiratory Inflammation and Failure Fibrotic Lung Diseases |
| Daya, Michelle, PhD | Assistant Professor | Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine |
| Evans, Christopher, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Airflow Disease and Acute Respiratory Inflammation and Failure |
| Flores, Sonia C., Ph.D. | Professor | HIV viral protein-pulmonary endothelial cell interactions and viral disease pathogenesis |
| Gignoux, Christopher, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Human evolution and epidemiology |
| Grayck, Eva, M.D. | Professor | Acute Respiratory Inflammation and Failure Pulmonary Vascular Diseases |
| Holguin, Fernando, M.P.H. | Associate Professor | Airway Disease |
| Janssen, William, M.D. | Associate Professor | Alveolar macrophages; metabolic reprogramming |
| Julian, Colleen, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine |
| Lange, Ethan, Ph.D. | Professor | Statistical methods to genetic data, linkage analysis |
| Lange, Leslie, Ph.D. | Professor | Genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics and classical biostatistics |
| Lozupone, Catherine, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Biological/metabolic properties of individual bacteria and host interactions |
| Maier, Lisa, M.D. | Professor | Genetic, genomic, epigenetic and exposure predictors of chronic beryllium disease (CBD) and sarcoidosis |
| Phang, Tzu-Lip, M.S., Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Microarray and next generation sequencing data analysis |
| Reisdorph, Nichole, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Applying mass spectrometry approaches to projects that may lead to new information and are of therapeutic relevance to human diseases |
| Riches, David Ph.D | Professor | Acute Respiratory Inflammation & Failure and Fibrotic Lung Diseases |
| Schmidt, Eric, MD | Associate Professor | The laboratory focuses on the mechanisms underlying sepsis and septic organ injury, with particular interest in the role of glycosaminoglycans (such as heparan sulfate) in the onset, propagation, and resolution of septic lung, kidney, and brain injury. |
| Schwartz, David A., M.D. | Professor and Chair of Medicine | Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis ; Effects of microbiome on the innate immune system |
| Sharma, Sunita, M.D., M.P.H. | Associate Professor | Airway Disease |
| Sucharov, Carmen, PhD | Professor | The goal of the research group is to identify mechanisms of heart failure in the pediatric population, focusing on transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation, mitochondria function and metabolic dysfunction |
| Taylor, Matt, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor | Hereditary cardiomyopathies |
| Torres, Raul M., Ph.D. | Professor | Pulmonary macrophage regulation of inflammation |
| Tuder, Rubin M., M.D. | Professor | Cellular mechanisms of COPD; cigarette smoke-induced oxidative stress |
| Vladar, Eszter, PhD | Assistant Professor | Mucociliary epithelial dysfunction and its in chronic inflammatory airway conditions like cystic fibrosis, asthma and COPD |
| Weiser-Evans, Mary, Ph.D. | Professor | Defining the molecular signaling mechanisms regulating SMC function in the setting of vascular fibroproliferative diseases |
| Johnson, Randi, Ph.D., M.P.H | Assistant Professor | Multi-omics integration to characterize genetic influences on metabotypes of type 1 diabetes progression |
| Vladar, Eszter, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Chronic airway diseases |
This is a program supported by NHLBI and hosted on campus but not a University program.