MTT Researchers

Farah Bahrani-Mougeot, PhD
Director Micobiome Oral Medicine
Atrium Health Oral Medicine Research Laboratory

CBES Area of Interest: Drs Mougeot’s laboratories are centered on the both microbiomic and human genomic biomarkers for diagnosis of various oral and systemic diseases including Sjogren’s syndrome, Infective Endocarditis, Oral mucositis, and other oral complications of cancer therapy. We use next generation sequencing technology for analysis of microbial metagenome and human genetic polymorphisms using […]

Farhang Farhangfar, PhD
Assistant Vice President
Atrium Health

CBES Area of Interest: Stem cell biology, immunology, cell and developmental biology, and tissue engineering CBES Area of Expertise: Cancer research, cancer vaccines, adult stem cells, clinical trial specimen collection and processing

David M. Foureau, Ph.D.
Distinguished Chair Clinical Research
Levine Cancer Institute Atrium Health
Department of General Surgery Research, Carolinas Medical Center

CBES Area of Interest: Biological treatment of skin cancer as well as immune modulation by and against solid tumors

Nathaniel M. Fried, Ph.D.
Professor
Physics and Optical Science

CBES Area of Interest: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Image-Guided Therapies CBES Area of Expertise: Laser Medicine, Biomedical Optics, Biophotonics, Minimally Invasive Thermal Therapies

Rueben Howden, PhD
Professor
Applied Physiology, Health, Clinical Sciences

CBES Area of Interest: I have many years experience analyzing large mouse data sets in both mouse cardiovascular physiology and genetics. Using these techniques I have identified many chromosomal regions that associate with physiological function at baseline and in response to stress. Furthermore, I have the equipment and expertise to perform mechanical properties testing on […]

V. Klibanov, Ph.D.
Professor
Mathematics and Statistics

CBES Area of Interest: Inverse problems for Partial Differential Equations. Applications to Medical Optical Imaging. CBES Area of Expertise: Numerical solution of a parabolic inverse problem in optical tomography using experimental data.

Charles Y. Lee, Ph.D.
Professor
Mechanical Enigineering and Science

CBES Area of Interest: Research is in the area of improving organ preservation for transplantation. Currently, the number of patients waiting for transplants is exponentially increasing while the number of transplants remains stagnant. Our goal is to improve the technology of hypothermic machine perfusion for preservation of donor livers. There are many aspects to this […]

Ian Marriott, Ph.D.
Professor
Biological Sciences

CBES Area of Interest: Our research focuses on the mechanisms underlying damaging inflammation in brain and bone tissue following infection. Microglia and astrocytes are the principle non-neuronal cells of the central nervous system (CNS) and play a key role in host defense against invading pathogens. However, these glial cells may play a far more sinister […]

Dr. Jean-Luc Mougeot, PhD
Senior Scientist
Atrium Health

CBES Area of Interest: Drs Mougeot’s laboratories are centered on the both microbiomic and human genomic biomarkers for diagnosis of various oral and systemic diseases including Sjogren’s syndrome, Infective Endocarditis, Oral mucositis, and other oral complications of cancer therapy. We use next generation sequencing technology for analysis of microbial metagenome and human genetic polymorphisms using […]

Daniel Alan Nelson, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor
Biological Sciences

CBES Area of Interest: When breast cancers metastasize to other organs, treatment becomes more aggressive and the prognosis less hopeful. Defining the factors that contribute to metastatic disease is therefore an important goal. Research in our laboratory has utilized a mouse model of breast cancer to demonstrate that a common viral infection greatly increases metastatic […]

Kenneth Piller, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Biological Sciences

CBES Area of Interest: As co-founder of SoyMeds, Inc., we use a soy-based platform for production of protein-based therapeutics that can be used to prevent, diagnose and treat disease. We have expressed vaccine antigens (subunit antigens, VLPs, etc), myelin proteins involved with multiple sclerosis, and the only non-cadaver source of human thyroglobulin that could set […]

Shaoting Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, Woodward 210F

CBES Area of Interest: Dr. Zhang has been working on robust medical image segmentation, large-scale medical image retrieval, decision support systems, and computer-aided diagnosis. He has developed various methods for multiple use cases, including the automated analysis of histopathological images, cardiac motion reconstruction with tagged MRI, and compressed sensing MRI. CBES Area of Expertise: Dr. […]