The Team


Principal Investigator

James Tsuruta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Laboratories for Reproductive Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7500

James received his B.A. in Chemistry at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.  His masters and doctorate are in Biochemistry from Washington State University, where his thesis advisor was Michael Griswold.  James was a post-doctoral associate in the laboratory of Deborah O'Brien at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.





Co-Principal Investigator

Paul Dayton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Paul received his B.S. in Physics and in Comprehensive Science at Villanova University. He earned his M.E. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia.  He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Some of Paul's research interests can be found here.



Pilot Study Team Members

Elaine Lissner
Director of Medical Research Programs
The Parsemus Foundation
San Francisco, CA

David Sokal, M.D.
Senior Scientist
Behavioral and Biomedical Research
Family Health International
Research Triangle Park, NC

Michael O'Rand, Ph.D.
Professor
The Laboratories for Reproductive Biology
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Richard Richardson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Laboratories for Reproductive Biology
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Caterina Gallipi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Erick Silva, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow
The Laboratories for Reproductive Biology
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Ryan Gessner
Graduate Student
UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

T. Stan Gregory
Undergraduate Student
UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Michael Streicker
Study Director
Integrated Laboratory Systems, Inc.
Research Triangle Park, NC

Glenda Moser
Program Manager
Toxicology and Cancer Biology
Integrated Laboratory Systems, Inc.
Research Triangle Park, NC