Faculty Biography

piRNAs as Modulators of Disease Pathogenesis.
Kayla J Rayford, Ayorinde Cooley, Jelonia T Rumph, Ashutosh Arun, Girish Rachakonda, Fernando Villalta, Maria F Lima, Siddharth Pratap, Smita Misra, Pius N Nde

Building a Diverse Workforce and Thinkforce to Reduce Health Disparities.
Richard Yanagihara, Marla J Berry, Monica J Carson, Sandra P Chang, Heather Corliss, Marc B Cox, Georges Haddad, Christine Hohmann, Scott T Kelley, Eun Sook Yu Lee, Bruce G Link, Richard J Noel, Julie Pickrel, James T Porter, Gregory J Quirk, Temesgen Samuel, Jonathan K Stiles, Angela U Sy, Deborah A Taira, Mary Jo Trepka, Fernando Villalta, Thomas E Wiese

Trypanosoma cruzi Modulates PIWI-Interacting RNA Expression in Primary Human Cardiac Myocytes during the Early Phase of Infection.
Kayla J Rayford, Ayorinde Cooley, Ashutosh Arun, Girish Rachakonda, Yulia Kleschenko, Fernando Villalta, Siddharth Pratap, Maria F Lima, Pius N Nde

Advances in preclinical approaches to Chagas disease drug discovery.
Fernando Villalta, Girish Rachakonda

Successful Aspects of the Coadministration of Sterol 14α-Demethylase Inhibitor VFV and Benznidazole in Experimental Mouse Models of Chagas Disease Caused by the Drug-Resistant Strain of Trypanosoma cruzi.
Francisca Hildemagna Guedes-da-Silva, Denise da Gama Jaén Batista, Cristiane França Da Silva, Beatriz Philot Pavão, Marcos Meuser Batista, Otacílio Cruz Moreira, Letícia Rocha Quintino Souza, Constança Britto, Girish Rachakonda, Fernando Villalta, Galina I Lepesheva, Maria de Nazaré Correia Soeiro

Sterol 14α-Demethylase Structure-Based Optimization of Drug Candidates for Human Infections with the Protozoan Trypanosomatidae.
Laura Friggeri, Tatiana Y Hargrove, Girish Rachakonda, Anna L Blobaum, Paxtyn Fisher, Gabriel Melo de Oliveira, Cristiane França da Silva, Maria de Nazaré C Soeiro, W David Nes, Craig W Lindsley, Fernando Villalta, F Peter Guengerich, Galina I Lepesheva