Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Surbhi Sidana specializes in the treatment of plasma cell disorders, such as multiple myeloma, amyloidosis and related disorders. Her research focuses on the development of novel therapeutic approaches, biomarkers and management of treatment toxicity in this field. Dr. Sidana's expertise includes blood and marrow transplantation and CAR-T cell therapy.

Dr. Vipul Sheth's research interests are in translational research of magnetic resonance imaging related technologies to improve diagnostics and therapeutics. Specifically, Dr. Sheth has an interest in imaging and characterization of the tumor microenvironment, use of ultrashort echo time in Body MRI applications, and developing synergistic MRI methods to complement PET imaging for applications in PET/MRI. His clinical interests include pelvic floor disorders, pelvic malignancies, whole body MRI and MRI Guided procedures.

Dr. Xiaojing Gao hopes to provide answers to the question of how to design biological systems as “smart medicine” that sense patients’ states, process the information, and respond accordingly. To realize this vision, Dr.

Dr. Elizabeth Mormino's research program focuses on combining imaging and genetics to predict cognitive trajectories over time, and the integration of novel PET scans to better understand human aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Frederick Dirbas's research interests are focused on improving therapy of breast cancer by refining existing diagnostic and treatment options, as well as introducing new methods that reduce side effects and improve quality of life for affected patients. Focuses include breast surgical oncology, accelerated partial breast irradiation, intraoperative radiotherapy, radiobiology of breast cancer, identification of markers of resistance to chemotherapy and radiation, and breast cancer stem cells.

Dr. Sui Wang's group's research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie retinal development and diseases. They utilize genetic and genomic tools to uncover how different types of retinal cells, including retinal neurons, glia and the vasculature, respond to developmental cues and disease insults at the epigenomic and transcriptional levels, and how they interact and collectively contribute to the integrity of the retina.

Dr. Matthew Wheeler is a physician scientist with interests in cardiomyopathies, rare and undiagnosed diseases, therapeutics and genomics. Dr. Wheeler has research training in both myocardial and skeletal muscle biology and genetics, genomics, and multi-scale networks and is a physician with interest and experience treating patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other inherited cardiomyopathies. I have clinical training in medicine, cardiology, cardiovascular genetics, and advanced heart failure.