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Dr. David Stepp is a federally funded investigator and a 21-year faculty member in the Medical College of Georgia鈥檚 Vascular Biology Center. Stepp, Leon Henri Charbonnier Endowed Chair in Physiology, also directs the Vascular Biology Center鈥檚 graduate program and is co-director of the Department of Medicine鈥檚 Research Residency Track. He is a co-principal investigator with VBC Director, Dr. David Fulton, on a  He is the contact principal investigator with Dr. Jennifer Sullivan, physiologist and dean of The Graduate School at 桃色视频, on a Stepp also leads the MCG training program for the new . His research has been continuously extramurally funded for 20 years, including six awards from the NIH and four awards, including a Scientist Development Grant, from the AHA. His work has resulted in over 80 publications including signature work in high-impact cardiovascular journals such as Circulation, Circulation Research and Hypertension. Stepp has also provided extensive review service to several NIH study sections, including serving as chair of the Vascular Cell and Molecular Biology Grant Review Committee from 2015-17. He earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology in 1988 from the University of South Carolina and his doctoral degree in physiology from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1993. From 1993-96 he was a senior research fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. He came to MCG in 2001 from the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he was a research assistant professor.

Dr. Lawrence C. Layman graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, completed residency in Ob/Gyn at the University of Louisville and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrine and Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia. He is board certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology; Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility; Clinical Genetics; and Clinical Molecular Genetics. He served on the Reproductive Endocrine Division of the American Board of Ob/Gyn. Dr. Layman actively sees patients and investigates genetic aspects of puberty and reproduction and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1997. He has received five five-year NIH grants as a PI. Research contributions include the identification of human pathogenic variants in patients with pubertal disorders and infertility. Recently, his group found that  women with unexplained infertility have an increased risk of having pathogenic variants in genes that are medically actionable. He has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Layman is also actively involved in student training at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and he serves as the Program Director of MCG鈥檚 Reproductive Endocrinology, and Infertility Fellowship Program.

Dr. Barman currently holds the rank of Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and is the Assistant Dean for Admissions for the Medical College of Georgia at 桃色视频. His research area involves studying mechanisms of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). He received his doctorate from the University of North Dakota in Physiology and completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of South Alabama in the area of pulmonary pathophysiology. He is the recipient of a Parker B. Francis Pulmonary Fellowship Award, American Heart Training Fellowship, and an NIH Training Fellowship as well as numerous extramural grants from the NIH and AHA. His professional memberships include the North Dakota Academy of Science, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, American Physiological Society, New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Heart Association Council for Blood Pressure Research. He has served on American Heart Association, NIH, and Department of Defense American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) review panels. He has also served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Physiology and the Open Nitric Oxide Journal, and currently is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Systems and Integrative Pharmacology. He reviews manuscripts for 18 scientific journals and has published 66 articles and 15 book chapters.

Elena Dent, Assistant Dean for the Graduate School at 桃色视频, serves as the First Year Program Director for Biomedical Sciences PhD students and oversees the Biomedical Sciences PhD programs. She completed her dietetic training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and earned both a master鈥檚 degree in Biomedical Science and a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where her research focused on mechanisms of hypertension in autoimmunity. Elena pursued postdoctoral training in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and subsequently joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor. She is actively involved in an NIH-funded U54 grant aimed at increasing awareness and education around cardiovascular disease and the risks of uncontrolled hypertension in women.

Dr. Liu received his Ph.D degree in molecular biology with a focus on RNA polymerase and transcription factor interaction with the nascent RNA from the University of Oklahoma. He completed postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Immunology at the National Institute on Aging/NIH and the Center for Immuno-Oncology in the National Cancer Institute/NIH. Dr. Liu joined the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia in 2005. In addition to NCI-funded research program, Dr. Liu is also a VA-funded Principal Investigator at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center. The research program in Dr. Liu鈥檚 laboratory focuses on the dynamic interactions between tumor cells and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. At the molecular level, his laboratory aims at elucidating the mechanisms underlying genetic and epigenetic regulation of tumor suppressors and immune checkpoints in tumor cells and myeloid cells. At the cellular level, his laboratory studies tumor cell and myeloid cell interactions with the tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in the context of CTL immune suppression. The research in his laboratory is primarily driven by students (Ph.D, MD-Ph.D, and medical students). His graduate students have received several NCI and NIAID F31 and F30 fellowships. Publications with Ph.D, MD-Ph.D students as the first-authors include Cancer Cell, J Clin Invest, Cancer Immunol Res, Cell Rep, and OncoImmunology. 

Dr. Brian Stansfield graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 2004 and completed his residency in general  pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Georgia. He went on to Indiana University to complete a fellowship in neonatal/perinatal medicine and a post-doctoral research fellowship through the NIH-sponsored Pediatric Scientist Development Program. He joined the section of neonatology at the Children's Hospital of Georgia in 2013 with a joint appointment in the Vascular Biology Center. Dr. Stansfield's laboratory, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and American Heart Association, focuses on immune cell interactions with the endothelium leading to large and small blood vessel disease. Dr. Stansfield is also interested in the relationship between early life nutrition and cardiometabolic diseases in preterm and low birth weight infants. He is an active clinician in the regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and provides oversight to research activities in the Department of Pediatrics.