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Life Sciences prides itself on offering leading edge research in 5 key areas: Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer, Health Services, Kinesiology, and Liver Research.
Bioinformatics Research Center
Liver transplant; Sports medicine; biomechanics; motor control; knee and ankle osteoarthritis Data warehousing/mining of large scale databases (vital statistics, hospital discharges) for decision support for both clinical and public health research domains Brain Biomechanics & mobility research UNC Charlotte defines Bioinformatics as the discovery, development and application of novel computational technologies to help solve important biological problems. Research encompasses both Bioinformatics and Computational Biology as defined by the NIH.
Bioinformatics Research Center
Center for Biomedical Engineering Systems
- Biophotonics
- Cell to Organ Support Systems
- Molecular Engineering & Design
Center for Biomedical Engineering Systems
Cancer Research
- Brain
- Breast
- Lung
- Prostate
- Skin
- Cancer genetics
- Cancer genomics
Health Services Research
- Physician and hospital performance
- Risk adjustment methodologies
- Community health status assessment
College of Health and Human Services
Kinesiology Research
- Exercise genomics; neural control of blood pressure.
- Physiological mechanisms of adaptation to activity in the elderly; genetic influence on physical activity with aging; cardiac apoptosis with exercise and aging.
- Skeletal muscle biology; satellite cells; skeletal muscle stem cells; skeletal muscle regeneration; developmental signaling pathways; Notch signaling; Wnt signaling; myoblasts; Msx1, Myf5, Foxk1.
Department of Kinesiology
Liver Research
- Liver regeneration
- Liver cirrosis & fibrosis
- Engineered liver support systems
- Bioartificial liver devices
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