	Faculty & Research Team Core Facilities UCLA Collaborations Grants & Awards

"The Division of Molecular Medicine conducts basic science and translational research in collaboration with other scientists at UCLA and around the world."
-Patricia Kapur, MD, Chair

"Our members are unified in a common scientific goal focused on cardiovascular sciences and molecular excitability."
-Enrico Stefani, MD, PhD, Vice Chair for Research

Principal Investigators

Enrico Stefani, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology Director of the Division of Molecular Medicine estefani@mednet.ucla.edu High resolution visualization of cardiovascular molecules in health and disease. VISIT MY LAB

Riccardo Olcese, PhD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology rolcese@ucla.edu Molecular physiology and biophysics of voltage gated ion channels and their roles in cellular excitability. VISIT MY LAB

Ligia Toro, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology itoro@mednet.ucla.edu Cardiovascular muscle biology: hormones, aging, tyrosine, kinase and ion channels. VISIT MY LAB

Yibin Wang, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology, Physiology and Medicine yibinwang@ucla.edu Molecular signaling in cardiac disease. VISIT MY LAB

Peipei Ping, PhD Professor of Physiology, Medicine, and Cardiology peipeiping@hotmail.com peipeiping@earthlink.net Functional proteomic analysis of the normal, ischemic and protected myocardium. Mapping cardiac sub-proteomes. Transgenic models of cardiac protection. VISIT MY LAB

Thomas Vondriska, PhD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine tvondriska@mednet.ucla.edu Proteomics; systems biology analysis of protein Interaction networks. VISIT MY LAB

Linda Cai, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology hcai@mednet.ucla.edu Vascular Pathobiology: reactive oxygen species signaling in hypertension, diabetes and therapeutic angiogenesis. VISIT MY LAB

Mansoureh Eghbali, PhD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology meghbali@ucla.edu Molecular basis of the remodeling of voltage activated K channels in heart by sex hormones. VISIT MY LAB