Biomedical Sciences Research
Faculty participating in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program have a diverse range of research interests spanning several academic disciplines including neuroscience, immunology, microbiology, physiology, pharmacology, cellular biology and molecular biology.
Research Areas
- Molecular interactions of beneficial microorganisms with the host
- Vertebrate paleontology and paleobiology of early mammals
- Targeting and trafficking of neuronal receptors
- Roles of opioid receptors in pain and analgesia
- Regulation and modulation of synaptic glutamate receptors
- Molecular biology of simian herpes viruses
- Biochemistry of hormone action
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the assembly of cilia and flagella
- Role of glutamate metabolism during chronic pain and spinal injury
- Neural basis of social attachment
- Neurotoxic mechanisms of low-level metal exposure
- Neuroimmune signaling
- Hormonal regulation of inflammation
- Modeling of cardiac rhythms in health and disease
Faculty Research
From cytogenetics and molecular genetics to vertebrate paleontology, researchers at OSU Center for Health Sciences are making new discoveries everyday.