Research Areas & Locations
Cardiovascular and Lipid Disorders
The cardiovascular and lipid disorders division of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine includes investigators who study several different areas of cardiovascular disease.
These investigators study the disease processes leading to heart disease, (the No. 1 cause of death in men and women), the obesity epidemic or developmental abnormalities caused by alterations in lipid metabolism.
The cardiovascular and lipid disorders division of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine includes investigators who study several different areas of cardiovascular disease. These investigators study the disease processes leading to heart disease, (the No. 1 cause of death in men and women), the obesity epidemic or developmental abnormalities caused by alterations in lipid metabolism.
Foci of study are varied and include studies of blood vessel walls, the liver, the intestine, adipose tissue, the brain, embryonic tissues and cell culture models of each system.
These investigators approach these studies using a broad spectrum of technologies including, physical chemistry, molecular biology, cell biology and whole animal physiology.
This well-funded group of researchers receives support from a variety of organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Infectious Disease
The infectious diseases division of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine includes investigators who have developed international recognition for outstanding research in medical mycology, opportunistic infections and host immune responses.
Laboratories focus on the molecular and cellular aspects of pathogenesis in a specific organism and study host immune responses and their relevance to the control of infection and disease.
Organisms of interest include the human eukaryotic pathogens Histoplasma capsulatum, Pneumocystis spp and Aspergillus fumigatus.
Research Locations
Research activities are undertaken in research laboratories located throughout the medical campus in the Cardiovascular Research Center, CARE/Crawley building, Medical Sciences Building, Cincinnati Department of Verterans Affairs Medical Center and the Metabolic Diseases Institute at the Reading Campus.
These laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for performing contemporary biomedical research.