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Basic Biomedical Sciences Division


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William Mayhan, Dean
Daniel Bird, Associate Dean and MD/Ph.D. Academic Coordinator
Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences
Lee Medical Building
(605) 658-6400

biomed@usd.edu
https://www.usd.edu/medicine/basic-biomedical-sciences

FACULTY

Professors:

Brian Burrell, Cellular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
Michael Chaussee, Streptococcus pyogenes, Bacterial Pathogenesis
Barbara Goodman, Science and Health Education
Joyce Keifer, Neuroscience, Adaptive Motor Control, Learning and Memory
Yi-Fan Li, Neurohumoral Control of Cardiovascular Functions
William Mayhan, Dean of Basic Biomedical Sciences
Robert Morecraft, Limbic System and Motor Recovery Following Brain Damage
Samuel Sathyanesan, Systems Physiology/Neuroscience
Xuejun Wang, Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Disease
Keith Weaver, Microbial Genetics, Plasmid Replication, Inheritance and Horizontal Transfer

Associate Professors:

Lee Baugh, Neuroscience
Daniel Bird, Microbiology
Victor Huber, Immunology
Curtis Kost, Jr., Cardiovascular and Renal Physiology and Pharmacology
Pasquale Manzerra, NMDA Receptor-mediated Intracellular Signaling
Khosrow Rezvani, Protein Quality Control
Hongmin Wang, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Assistant Professors:

Edward Bagu, Physiology
Bruce Cuevas, Pharmacology
Scott Druecker, Anatomy and Physiology
Taylor Friemel, Anatomy and Physiology
Jane Gavin, Anatomy and Physiology
Lisa McFadden, Neuroscience
Gerald McGraw, Anatomy and Physiology
James Scott Pattison, Protein Quality Control
Jose Pietri, Medical Entomology & Pathogen Transmission
Arun Singh, Neuroscience
Hong Zheng, Neuroscience and Physiology
Zhaoqing Zheng, Human Physiology, Experimental Physiology and Neurosciences

Instructors:

Denise Arrick, Anatomy and Physiology
Stephen Bambas, Anatomy and Physiology

Emeritus Faculty:

Douglas Martin, Control of Blood Pressure, Hypertensive and Environmental Interactions
Steven Waller, Basic Biomedical Sciences

The Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences of the Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota provides a variety of course and program offerings at the undergraduate, professional and graduate levels. The goals of the Division are: (1) outstanding teaching of anatomy, biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology and immunology, neuroscience, and physiology and pharmacology, (2) faculty research, (3) training of graduate and undergraduate students in research, and (4) public service. In the rapidly changing fields that encompass Basic Biomedical Sciences, we believe outstanding teaching can best be accomplished by outstanding faculty researchers and educators. Undergraduate courses offered by the Division cover many sub-disciplines of Basic Biomedical Sciences. The primary goal of each undergraduate course is to provide students interested in biomedical or health sciences a suitable base of knowledge for their future

The Division also has a graduate program leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Basic Biomedical Sciences.

 

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