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Principle Investigator

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    Geraldine Grant Geraldine M. Grant, PhD is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology at George Mason University. She graduated from Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland with a bachelor of science in Biochemistry in 1987. She then went on to earn her doctoral degree in Cell Biology at Dublin City University in 1993.

    Dr. Grant’s doctoral work was focused on xenobiotic metabolism in mammalian cells in culture as a model system. In 1994 she moved to the University of Maryland to pursue her post-doctoral work on multi-drug resistance in cancer therapy.

    In 1998 Dr Grant moved to George Mason University to work on the in vitro toxicity of Jet Propulsion fuel 8 (JP8). Dr Grant’s lab currently focuses on in vitro model systems of disease with the laboratories main emphasis on Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

Current Members

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    Jorge Fernandez Davila, BS PhD student
    Email: jfernan@gmu.edu View Full Profile
    Research Interests: The role of CXCL14 in IPF fibroblast activation.

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    Michelle Devlin, BS Masters student
    Email: mdevlin6@gmu.edu View Full Profile
    Research Interests: The regulatory balance between mitochondrial chromosome replication and transcription in IPF.

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    Brieann Sobieski Undergraduate student
    Email: bsobieski@gmu.edu View Full Profile
    Research Interests: Non-invasive biomarkers in IPF and cellular senescence

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    Isabella Meerzaman Undergraduate student
    Email: imeerzam@gmu.edu View Full Profile
    Research Interests: Survival mechanisms of IPF fibroblasts under chronic ER stress conditions.

Past Members