Basic Science
The objectives of the Department of Basic Sciences are to:
- Offer relevant course work for the various professional curricula that will provide essential foundational content, an understanding of the current state of the field, and the skills required to maintain currency.
- Offer graduate curricula leading to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees that are designed to provide graduate students with the information and tools needed to succeed as independent educators and investigators.
- Conduct and publish peer-reviewed research that contributes to knowledge in the biomedical sciences.
- Support Loma Linda University colleagues through collaborations and consultations that will assist in research and instruction.
Chair
Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes
Division of Biochemistry
Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes, Vice Chair
Division of Biomedical Engineering Science Division
Michael Pecaut, Vice Chair
Division of Microbiology
Hansel M. Fletcher, Vice Chair
Division of Pharmacology
John Buchholz, VIce Chair
Division of Physiology
John H. Zhang, Vice Chair
Director
Kimberly Payne
Primary faculty
Danilyn M. Angeles
Vladimir Bashkirov
Erik Behringer
Danilo Boskovic
Eileen J. Brantley
John N. Buchholz
Carlos A. Casiano
Xin Sean Chen
Johnny Figueroa
Xiang-Qun Hu
Mark Johnson
Daisy D. De Leon
Marino A. De Leon
Charles A. Ducsay
Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes
Valeri Filippov
Hansel M. Fletcher
David A. Hessinger
Salma Khan
William H. Langridge
Bo Li
Qing Yi Ma
Xiao W. Mao
Eugenia I. Mata-Greenwood
Gregory A. Nelson
Andre Obenaus
William J. Pearce
Michael Pecaut
Christopher C. Perry
Gordon G. Power
Hongyu Qiu
Reinhard Schulte
Ubaldo A. Soto-Wegner
Richard S. Sun
Jiping Tang
Julia J. Unternaehrer-Hamm
Nathan R. Wall
Charles Wang
Kylie J. Watts
Christopher G. Wilson
Sean M. Wilson
David L. Wolf
Daliao Xiao
Steven M. Yellon
John H. Zhang
Lubo Zhang
Secondary faculty
Olayemi Adeoye
Nancy J. Anderson
Brenda L. Bartnik-Olson
David J. Baylink
Abigail Benitez
Arlin Blood
Murray E. Brandstater
David A. Bush
Cindy X. Cai
Philip J. Chan
Chien-Shing Chen
Keith K. Colburn
Bradley A. Cole
Khashayar Dashtipour
Ihab Dorotta
Joseph Fan
Ronald Fernando
Kendra Fisher
Umesh Gangadharmath
Ciprian Gheorghe
Lei Huang
Willie L. Davis, Jr.
Carlos A. Garberoglio
Elizabeth A. Ghazal
June-Anne Gold
Barbara A. Holshouser
Christian S. Jackson
Alan K. Jacobson
T. Michael Kashner
Daniel K. Kido
Michael A. Kirby
Wolff M. Kirsch
Steve C. Lee
Xian Luo-Owen
Timothy Martens
Saied Mirshahidi
Subburaman Mohan
H. Bryant Nguyen
Thomas A. O'Callaghan
Peter H. Pham
Suzanne Phillips
Xue Zhong Qin
Xue Zhong Qin
E. Ellen Reibling
Lawrence Sandberg
Kristin A. Seiberling
Matilda Sheng
Wei-Xing Shi
Sam Siddighi
Jerry Slater
Dustin D. Smith
Jason C. Smith
Salvador Soriano
Donna D. Strong
Xiaolei Tang
Karen A. Tong
Abel Torres
Marcelo Vazquez
Joe E. Wergedal
Leonard S. Werner
Beverly Wood
N. Dan Wycliffe
Gary Y. Yang
Xiangpeng Yuan
Xiao-Bing Zhang
Zhiwei Zhang
Emeritus faculty
Daila Gridley
Barry Taylor
Anthony Zuccarelli
