Departmental Members

Stephen Duncan chair in Regenerative Medicine

Stephen Duncan, D.Phil

Professor and Chair
SmartState Chair in Regenerative Medicine
Liver Development and Disease
Duncan Lab website

Andy Wessels faculty Vice Chair in Regenerative Medicine

Andy Wessels, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair
Cardiac Development and the Pathogenesis of Congenital Heart Defects and Acquired Heart Valve Diseases
Wessels Lab website

Jamie Barth

Jamie Barth, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor
Microarray Facilities, Bioinformatics
Barth Lab website



Gerald Dorn
Gerald Wainwright Dorn, M.D.
Professor
Mitochondrial dysdynamism in the myopathy and neuroathy

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 Amy Engevik, Ph.D.

 Assistant Professor
 Molecular motor regulation of protein delivery to epithelial cell membranes
 Amy Engevik Lab website

Kristen Engevik

  Kristen Engevik Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor







Mindy Engevik  Melinda Engevik, Ph.D.

  Assistant Professor
  Microbial-host interactions in the gastrointestinal tract in the setting of health and disease
   Mindy Engevik Lab website

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Silvia Guglietta, Ph.D.

 Assistant Professor of Mucosal Immunology
 Effects of Dysregulated Intestinal Immunity on Disease Development
 Guglietta Lab website

Julia Hohn 

Julia Hohn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 

Christi Kern

Christine Kern, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Formation and Homeostasis of the Extracellular Matrix Architecture
Kern Lab website

Michael Kern

Michael Kern, Ph.D.

Professor
Cofactors that Interact with the Prrx Proteins; Biomechanical Engineering of the Temporal Mandibular Joint
Kern Lab website

Antonis Kourtidis 

Antonis Kourtidis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Interaction of the Adherens Junctions with RNA Complexes in Cell Behavior and Disease
Kourtidis Lab website              

Ricardo Moreno

Ricardo Moreno, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Mechanisms of Normal and Abnormal Development of the Heart

Robin Muise Helmericks

Robin Muise-Helmericks, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Molecular Mechanisms of Angiogenesis and Wound Repair
Muise-Helmericks Lab website

Jorge Munera

Jorge Munera, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Development of Small Intestine and Colon
Munera Lab website

Chip Norris

Russell Norris, Ph.D.

Professor
Genetic and biological causes of connective tissue diseases including heart valve diseases and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Norris Lab website

Titus Reaves

Titus Reaves, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Epithelial Cell Biology and Neutrophil (PMN) Migration

Henry Sucov

Henry Sucov, Ph.D.

SmartState Professor
Genetic and Molecular Control of Heart Regeneration and Heart (Patho)Physiology
Sucov Lab website

Ge Tao

Ge Tao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Myocardial Homeostasis, Injury, and Repair
Tao Lab website

Richard Visconti

Richard Visconti, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Endogenous Stem Cell Contributions to Cardiac Development and Pathological Remodeling

Naohiro Yamaguchi

Naohiro Yamaguchi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Regulatory Mechanisms of Calcium Signaling in Cardiac Muscle Cells
Yamaguchi Lab website

Administrative Staff

Evelyn Fabunan Business Manager

Evelyn Fabunan

Business Manager

Phone: 843-792-5891

Sabrina Green Grants Coordinator

Sabrina Lesene Green

Accounting Manager I

Phone: 843-792-5880

Cindy Gruenbaum Administrative Assistant

Cindy Gruenbaum

Administrative Coordinator I

Phone: 843-792-7616

                     

 Technical Staff

Ray Deepe
 Research Specialist III
 Wessels Lab
Joyce Nair-Menon Staff Scientist - Lab Manager Kourtidis Lab
Na Qu
 Research Specialist III Munera Lab
Kristy Wang Research Specialist I
 Sucov Lab

Dual/Joint Appointment

Alexander Awgulewitsch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medicine - Rheumatology

Amy Bradshaw, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medicine - Cardiology

Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Ph.D.
Professor
Medicine - Rheumatology

Hongkuan Fan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Stanley Hoffman, Ph.D.
Professor
Rheumatology & Immunology

Daria Ilatovskaya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Medicine

Seok-Hyung Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Nephrology

Kyu-Ho Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Cardiology

Debra J. Hazen-Martin, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean for Curriculum in the Basic Sciences
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Paul J. McDermott, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development Medicine

Terrence O’Brien, M.D.
Professor
Medicine

Bradley Schulte, Ph.D.
Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Inderjit Singh, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Division of Development Neurogenetics Pediatrics

Demetri Spyropoulos, Ph.D.
Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Elena Tourkina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medicine - Rheumatology

Hongjun Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Surgery

Michael Yost, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Surgery

Adjunct Faculty

Ann C. Foley, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Clemson/MUSC Bioengineering Program

Mark Kindy, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
University of South Florida

Ying Mei, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Clemson/MUSC Bioengineering Program

Ann Ramsdell, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Research Professor
University of South Carolina

Tong Ye, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Clemson/MUSC Bioengineering Program

Hai Yao, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Research Professor
Clemson/MUSC Bioengineering Program

Professor Emeriti

Thierry Bacro, Ph.D.
David Bernanke, Ph.D.
Thomas Borg, Ph.D.
Hilda Debacker, Ph.D.
Richard Dom, Ph.D.
William Dougherty, Ph.D.
Timothy Fitzharris, Ph.D.
James Hardin, Ph.D.
Karl Karnaky, Ph.D.
Edward Krug, Ph.D.
Eric Lacy, Ph.D.
Robert Ogilvie, Ph.D.
Robert Thompson, Ph.D.
Bryan Toole, Ph.D.
Donald Wilbur, Ph.D.
W. Curtis Worthington, M.D.