Center Faculty
The Primate Center's faculty includes investigators from many research areas:
- Susan E. Appt, DVM
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Hormone changes during menopausal transition and chronic diseases common in postmenopausal women - Thomas B. Clarkson, DVM
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease of Females; New Directions in Hormone Replacement Therapy; Behavioral and Psychosocial Influences on Chronic Diseases; Animal Models - J. Mark Cline, DVM
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Carcinogenesis, Immunohistochemistry, Comparative Pathology, Hormonally Induced Changes in Mammary Gland and Endometrium, Women's Health; Tumor Hypoxia - Christos Constantidinis, PhD
Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Area: Neurophysiology of memory and cognitive functions - Paul W. Czoty, PhD
Physiology & Pharmacology
Research Area: Nonhuman primate models of drug abuse: behavioral pharmacology and brain imaging - James B. Daunais, PhD
Physiology & Pharmacology
Research Area: Neuroimaging, Substance Abuse, Primate, Magnetic Resonance Imaging - David P. Friedman, PhD
Physiology & Pharmacology
Research Area: Neural basis of addiction, effects of alcohol on the brain , genetic and environmental influences on drinking and the response to alcohol, effects of stress on alcohol consumption - Matthew J. Jorgensen, PhD
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Primatology, Behavioral Genetics, Psychopharmacology, Cognition - Jay R. Kaplan, PhD
Director, WFUPC; and Section Head, Comparative Medicine
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine, Neurobiology, Women's Health, Primate Biology and Behavior, Evolutionary Pyschology, Nutrition and Behavior, Darwinian Medicine, Primate Genetics - Kylie Kavanagh, DVM
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Nutrition, obesity and insulin sensitivity; mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in diabetes and the role of heat shock proteins in diabetic complications; lipid metabolism - Nancy D. Kock, DVM PhD
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Infectious disease, Cancer research, Animal models, Vaccine development - Cynthia J. Lees, DVM
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Effects of Pregnancy and Lactation on Primate Bone, Osteoporosis in Primate Models - Iris Leng, MD PhD
Public Health Sciences (Biostatistics)
Research Area: Functional Data Analysis (FDA), Classification, Clustering, Aging, Microarray - Brian McCool, PhD
Physiology & Pharmacology
Research Area: Neurobiology of Alcohol Abuse and Anxiety - Michael A. Nader, PhD
Physiology & Pharmacology
Research Area: Neurobehavioral Pharmacology; Nonhuman Primate Models; Brain Imaging; Cocaine Abuse - Thomas C. Register, PhD
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Cardiovascular Disease, Atherosclerosis Progression and Regression, Osteoporosis, Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation of Arterial and Bone Metabolism, Steroid Hormones and Hormone Receptors in Health and Disease, Molecular Genetics, Nutrition - Lawrence L. Rudel, PhD
Pathology (Lipid Sciences)
Research Area: Cholesterol, Nutrition, Atherosclerosis, Lipoproteins, Liver - Carol A. Shively, PhD
Assistant Director, Diversity
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Social Stress and Disease Susceptibility - Janice D. Wagner, DVM PhD
Pathology (Comparative Medicine)
Research Area: Comparative Atherosclerosis, Diabetes Mellitus in Monkeys, Animal Models of Human Disease, Women's Health, Cardiovascular Disease