DMS Faculty Last Name: U, V, W

Dr. Naoshige Uchida	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology	HU-Camb	NSCI		Neuronal Mechanisms by which Sensory Information and Memory Guise the Behavior of the Animal
Dr. Dale Umetsu	M.D., Ph.D.	Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Professor of Pediatrics	CH	IMM		Immunoregulatory Mechanisms Affecting the Development of Pulmonary Inflammation, Asthma, and Allergy in Mice and Humans
Dr. Antoine van Oijen	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Single-molecule Biophysics
Dr. David Van Vactor	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	HMS	BBS	NSCI	Neuronal Pathfinding and Synaptogenesis
Dr. Marc Vidal	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Genetics	DFCI	BBS		Functional Genomics and Proteomics of Signal Transduction
Dr. Ulrich von Andrian-Werburg	Ph.D., M.D.	Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Immunopathology	HMS	BBS	IMM	Molecular Mechanisms of Leukocyte Trafficking
Dr. Harald von Boehmer	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Pathology	DFCI	IMM		Lymphocyte development, signaling, immunregulation.
Dr. Amy Wagers	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pathology	JDC	BBS	IMM	Biology and function of tissue-specific stem cells
Dr. Denisa Wagner	Ph.D.	Professor of Pathology	IDI	BBS	IMM	Cell Adhesion in Vascular Biology
Dr. Gerhard Wagner	Ph.D.	Elkan Blout Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins and Metabolites
Dr. Matthew Waldor	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Mobile Genetic Elements and Bacterial Pathogenicity
Dr. Loren Walensky	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	DFCI	BBS		Targeting deregulated apoptotic and transcriptional pathways in cancer
Dr. Bruce Walker	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	MGH/E	VIR	BBS	Cellular immunology of human viral infections.
Dr. Suzanne Walker	Ph.D.	Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS		Chemical biology, enzymology, antibiotics
Dr. W. Allan Walker	M.D.	Conrad Taff Professor of Pediatrics	MGH/E	IMM		Development of intestinal mucosal host defenses including oral tolerance.
Dr. Christopher A. Walsh	M.D., Ph.D.	Bullard Professor of Neurology	BIDMC	NSCI	BBS	Early events in the cerebral cortical development, studies using retroviral-mediated gene transfer and molecular genetics techniques.
Dr. Christopher T. Walsh	Ph.D.	Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Enzyme Mechanisms
Dr. Johannes Walter	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication
Dr. Thomas Walz	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Electron Microscopic Structure Determination
Dr. Frederick Wang	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	VIR	BBS	Molecular biology and pathogenesis of Epstein-Barr virus infection using an experimental model for EBV infection in Old World primates Molecular biology and pathogenesis of EBV infection using a non-human primate model of experimental EBV infection (VIR)
Dr. Matthew Warman	M.D.	Professor of Genetics	CH	BBS		Development and homeostasis of the skeleton
Dr. Paula Watnick	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Genetics of bacterial adhesion and pathogenesis
Dr. Wenyi Wei	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pathology	BIDMC	BBS		Cell Cycle, Ubiquitination and Protein Degradation, Cancer Research
Dr. Howard Weiner	M.D.	Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology	BWH	IMM		Autoimmunity of multiple sclerosis.
Dr. Ralph Weissleder	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Radiology	MGH	BBS		Bioimaging, nanomaterials and systems biology
Dr. Charles Weitz	M.D., Ph.D.	Robert Henry Pfeiffer Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		The molecular mechanism of the circadian clock localized in the mammalian hypothalamus.
Dr. Peter Weller	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	IMM		Immunobiology of eosinophils and leukocyte activation.
Dr. Michael Wessels	M.D.	Professor of Pediatrics (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics)	CH	BBS		Molecular pathogenesis of streptococcal infection
Dr. Marianne Wessling-Resnick	Ph.D.	Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry	HSPH	BPH	BBS	Regulation of the cellular uptake of transferrin; the role of GTP-binding proteins in endocytosis; membrane transport of iron.
Dr. Sean Whelan	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	VIR	BBS	Transcriptional Regulation of Viral and Mammalian Genes; Replication of negative-sense RNA viruses
Dr. Johnathan Whetstine	Ph.D.	Research Fellow in Medicine	MGH	BBS		Impact of Epigenetics on Cellular Homeostasis
Dr. Kristin White	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Dermatology	MGH/E	BBS		Genetic control of apoptosis in Drosophila
Dr. Morris White	Ph.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Action
Dr. Malcolm Whitman	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Developmental Biology	HSDM	BBS		Signal tranduction during early development
Dr. David Williams	M.D.	Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Biology of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Dr. Rachel Wilson	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Neural Coding of Chemosensory Stimuli
Dr. Fred Winston	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS		Gene Expression in Yeast
Dr. Dyann Wirth	Ph.D.	Professor of Tropical Public Health	HSPH	BBS		Molecular Biology of Parasites
Dr. Michael Wolfe	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Neurology	BWH	BBS	NSCI	Biochemistry and biology of neurodegenerative diseases
Dr. Clifford Woolf	Ph.D.	Richard J. Kitz Professor of Anaesthesia Research	MGH/E	NSCI		Changes in the function, chemistry and structure of sensory nerons that contribute to pain.
Dr. Chao-ting Wu	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS		Epigenetics, genetics, gene regulation, ultraconserved elements
Dr. Kai Wucherpfennig	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Neurology	DFCI	IMM	BBS	Basic mechanisms of T cell mediated autoimmune diseases.