Basic Biomedical Sciences Division

William Mayhan, Dean
Daniel Bird, Associate Dean
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
Victor Huber, Immunology
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

Associate Professors:

Lee Baugh, Neuroscience
Daniel Bird, Associate Dean of Basic Biomedical Sciences
Bruce Cuevas, Pharmacology
Curtis Kost, Jr., Cardiovascular and Renal Physiology and Pharmacology
Pasquale Manzerra, NMDA Receptor-mediated Intracellular Signaling
Lisa McFadden, Neuroscience
Khosrow Rezvani, Protein Quality Control
Hongmin Wang, Neurodegenerative Diseases
H ong Zheng, Neuroscience and Physiology

Assistant Professors:

Edward Bagu, Physiology
William Chen, Cardiovascular Synthetic Biology and Regenerative Engineering
Grant Campbell, Molecular Virology
Scott Druecker, Anatomy and Physiology
Taylor Soderling, Anatomy and Physiology
Gerald McGraw, Anatomy and Physiology
James Scott Pattison, Protein Quality Control
J ose Pietri, Medical Entomology & Pathogen Transmission
Luye Qin, Genetic, Epigenetic, Synaptic, and Circuit Bases of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Arun Singh, Neuroscience
Zhaoqing Zheng, Human Physiology, Experimental Physiology and Neurosciences

Instructors:

Denise Arrick, Anatomy and Physiology
Dana Hansen, 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.