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 Microbiology
Hansel M. Fletcher
Head
Division of Pharmacology
John Buchholz
Head
Division of Physiology
John H. Zhang
Head
Division of Radiation Research
Michael Pecaut
Head
Primary faculty
Danilyn M. Angeles
Wilson Aruni
Vladimir Bashkirov
Erik Behringer
Danilo Boskovic
Marie Claire Boutrin
Eileen J. Brantley
John N. Buchholz
Edouard M. Cantin
Carlos A. Casiano
Xiang-Qun Hu
Daisy D. De Leon
Marino A. De Leon
Charles A. Ducsay
Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes
Valeri Filippov
Maria Filippova
Ronald R. Fiscus
Hansel M. Fletcher
Ravi Goyal
Daila S. Gridley
David A. Hessinger
Salma Khan
William H. Langridge
Tim Lekic
Qing Yi Ma
Xiao W. Mao
Eugenia I. Mata-Greenwood
Gregory A. Nelson
Stephen A. Nyirady
William J. Pearce
Christopher C. Perry
Gordon G. Power
Hongyu Qiu
John J. Rossi
Keith E. Schubert
Ihsan Solaroglu
Ubaldo A. Soto-Wegner
Lawrence C. Sowers
Richard S. Sun
Jiping Tang
Julia J. Unternaehrer-Hamm
Roman Vlkolinsky
Nathan R. Wall
Charles Wang
Kylie J. Watts
R. Bruce Wilcox
Christopher G. Wilson
Sean M. Wilson
David L. Wolf
Daliao Xiao
Zhice Xu
Steven M. Yellon
John H. Zhang
Lubo Zhang
Anthony J. Zuccarelli
Secondary faculty
Nancy J. Anderson
Richard L. Applegate II
Jerome Badaut
Besh R. Barcega
Brenda L. Bartnik-Olson
David J. Baylink
Arlin B. Blood
Murray E. Brandstater
Nathan R. Brandstater
David A. Bush
Cindy X. Cai
Philip J. Chan
Chien-Shing Chen
Wayne K. Cheng
Kathleen J. Clem
Keith K. Colburn
Bradley A. Cole
Khashayar Dashtipour
Willie L. Davis, Jr.
T. Kent Demark
Ronald S. Fernando
Kendra L. Fisher
Carlos A. Garberoglio
Elizabeth A. Ghazal
Nirmalya Ghosh
June-Anne Gold
Susan L. Hall
Mark G. Haviland
Barbara A. Holshouser
Lei Huang
Christian S. Jackson
Alan K. Jacobson
Paul J. Jacobson
T. Michael Kashner
Daniel K. Kido
Michael A. Kirby
Wolff M. Kirsch
Steve C. Lee
John E. Lewis
Xian Luo-Owen
Saied Mirshahidi
Subburaman Mohan
Monica M. Neumann
H. Bryant Nguyen
Andre Obenaus
Thomas A. O'Callaghan
Bryan T. Oshiro
Peter H. Pham
Xue Zhong Qin
Mark E. Reeves
E. Ellen Reibling
Philip J. Roos
Lawrence Sandberg
Reinhard W. Schulte
Kristin A. Seiberling
Matilda Sheng
Wei-Xing Shi
Sam Siddighi
Douglas C. Smith
Dustin D. Smith
Jason C. Smith
Salvador Soriano Castell
Donna D. Strong
Karen A. Tong
Abel Torres
Joe E. Wergedal
Leonard S. Werner
Beverly P. Wood
N. Dan Wycliffe
Gary Y. Yang
Xiangpeng Yuan
Junchan J. Yune
Xiao-Bing Zhang
