Basic Science < Loma Linda University

The objectives of the Department of Basic Sciences are to:

Offer relevant coursework 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 designed to provide graduate students with 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

Primary faculty

Abu Ahmed

Danilyn M. Angeles

Jerome Badaut

Vladimir Bashkirov

Erik Behringer

Arlin Blood

Danilo Boskovic

Eileen J. Brantley

Aldo Bruccoleri

John N. Buchholz

Carlos A. Casiano

Xin Sean Chen

Sheng Chen

Wayne Cheng

Bhaskar Das

Sinisa Dovat

Desislava Doycheva

Johnny Figueroa

Barbara Holhouser

Xiang-Qun Hu

Mark Johnson

Isaac Kremsky

Daisy D. De Leon

Marino A. De Leon

Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes

Valeri Filippov

Hansel M. Fletcher

David A. Hessinger

Salma Khan

William H. Langridge

Jing Li

Jun Ling

Qing Yi Ma

Xiao W. Mao

Eugenia I. Mata-Greenwood

Jamie Milligan

Gregory A. Nelson

Stephen Nyirady

Andre Obenaus

Marvin Payne

William Pearce

Michael Pecaut

Eustace Penniecook-Sawyer

Christopher C. Perry

Nicolino Rizzo

Michael Samardzija

Keith Schubert

Reinhard Schulte

Prativa Sherchan

Rui Song

Ubaldo A. Soto-Wegner

Lawrence Sowers

John Stout

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

Colwick Wilson

Daliao Xiao

Steven M. Yellon

John H. Zhang

Lubo Zhang

Secondary faculty

Olayemi Adeoye

Frakis Almaguel

Nancy J. Anderson

Besh Rhyl Barcega

Samuel Barnes

Brenda L. Bartnik-Olson

David J. Baylink

Abigail Benitez

Eleanor Blakely

David A. Bush

Cindy X. Cai

Kakarla Chalam

Chien-Shing Chen

Keith K. Colburn

Bradley A. Cole

Khashayar Dashtipour

Mohammad Dastjerdi

Daniel DiLorenzo

Ihab Dorotta

Joseph Fan

Ronald Fernando

Kendra Fisher

Umesh Gangadharmath

Ciprian Gheorghe

Susan Hall

Lei Huang

J. Paul Jacobson

Willie L. Davis, Jr.

Carlos A. Garberoglio

Elizabeth A. Ghazal

June-Anne Gold

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

Fayth Miles

Saied Mirshahidi

Subburaman Mohan

Monica Neumann

H. Bryant Nguyen

Thomas A. O'Callaghan

Peter H. Pham

Suzanne Phillips

Xue Zhong Qin

Mark Reeves

E. Ellen Reibling

Lawrence Sandberg

Kristin A. Seiberling

Matilda Sheng

Wei-Xing Shi

Sam Siddighi

Jerry Slater

Dustin D. Smith

Jason C. Smith

Maulin Soneji

Salvador Soriano

Donna D. Strong

Konrad Talbot

Xiaolei Tang

Karen A. Tong

Abel Torres

Marcelo Vazquez

Leonard S. Werner

N. Dan Wycliffe

Gary Y. Yang

Xiangpeng Yuan

Xiao-Bing Zhang

Zhiwei Zhang

Emeritus faculty

Charles Ducsay

Daila Gridley

Barry Taylor

Anthony Zuccarelli