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 a graduate curriculum 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
Head
Division of Biomed Engineering Science Division
Michael Pecaut
Vice Chair
Division of Microbiology
Hansel M. Fletcher
Head
Division of Pharmacology
John Buchholz
Head
Division of Physiology
John H. Zhang
Head
Primary faculty
Danilyn M. Angeles
Erik Behringer
Danilo Boskovic
Marie Claire Boutrin
Eileen J. Brantley
John N. Buchholz
Carlos A. Casiano
Wayne Cheng
Johnny Figueroa
Xiang-Qun Hu
Daisy D. De Leon
Marino A. De Leon
Charles A. Ducsay
Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes
Valeri Filippov
Maria Filippova
Hansel M. Fletcher
Ravi Goyal
David A. Hessinger
Salma Khan
William H. Langridge
Qing Yi Ma
Xiao W. Mao
Eugenia I. Mata-Greenwood
Gregory A. Nelson
Stephen A. Nyirady
Andre Obenaus
William J. Pearce
Michael Pecaut
Christopher C. Perry
Gordon G. Power
Hongyu Qiu
Michael Samardzija
Reinhard Schulte
Ubaldo A. Soto-Wegner
Richard S. Sun
Jiping Tang
Julia J. Unternaehrer-Hamm
Roman Vlkolinsky
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
Jerome Badaut
Besh R. Barcega
Brenda L. Bartnik-Olson
David J. Baylink
Arlin Blood
Murray E. Brandstater
David A. Bush
Cindy X. Cai
Philip J. Chan
Chien-Shing Chen
Kathleen J. Clem
Keith K. Colburn
Bradley A. Cole
Khashayar Dashtipour
Ihab Dorotta
Joseph Fan
Ronald Fernando
Kendra Fisher
Umesh Gangadharmath
Willie L. Davis, Jr.
Carlos A. Garberoglio
Elizabeth A. Ghazal
June-Anne Gold
Susan L. Hall
Barbara A. Holshouser
Christian S. Jackson
Alan K. Jacobson
Paul J. 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
Monica M. Neumann
H. Bryant Nguyen
Thomas A. O'Callaghan
Peter H. Pham
Xue Zhong Qin
Mark E. Reeves
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 Castell
Donna D. Strong
Xiaolei Tang
Karen A. Tong
Abel Torres
Marcelo Vazquez
Joe E. Wergedal
Leonard S. Werner
N. Dan Wycliffe
Gary Y. Yang
Xiangpeng Yuan
Junchan J. Yune
Xiao-Bing Zhang
Zhiwei Zhang
Adjunct faculty
Aldo Bruccoleri
Sinisa Dovat
Keith Schubert
Ihsan Solaroglu
Lawrence Sowers
Colwick Wilson
Beverly Wood
Emeritus faculty
Daila Gridley
Barry Taylor
Anthony Zuccarelli
