• Exercise intolerance and effects of training
in children with heart disease.
• Benefits of ambulatory oxygen in
cardio-pulmonar disease patients.
Fetal-Maternal Medicine
• Effects of supine and prone positions in
premature infants.
• Prenatal methamphetamine or alcohol exposure
and child development.
• Correlation of fetal urine and amniotic
fluid dynamics.
• Amniotic fluid and infant monitoring for
parathryroid hormone protein.
Genetics
• Identification of risk genes for diabetic
nephropathy and derived cardiovascular disease.
• Genetics of Obesity.
Infectious Diseases
• Research in Candida and Funguria infections.
• Vaccine development (e.g.: Pertussis
vaccine)
• New pharmacotherapies for HIV
Kidney Disease
• Roles of exercise training and nutritional
factors in end stage kidney disease and renal
transplant patients.
• Cardiovascular disease in end stage kidney
disease
Male Reproductive Health
• Testosterone treatment of multiple
sclerosis.
• Replacement or supplemental androgen
therapies for wasting or chronic illnesses.
• Effects of environmental toxicants on male
fertility and pregnancy.
Metabolism
• Pancreatic islet transplantion for Type I
diabetes mellitus patients.
• Insulin secretion and glucose metabolism in
type II diabetes mellitus
• Metabolic phenotypes in children an
adolescents at risk of Type II diabetes.
• Gluconeogenesis in diabetes mellitus
Neuro-Surgery
• Hypopituitarism after severe head trauma.
Psychobiology of Ethnicity
• Pharmacogenetic differences in ethnic groups
(antidepressant response, alcohol)
Cancer Related Research
• Effects of diet, exercise and weight loss in
public hospital breast cancer patients.
• Role of dietary factors in prostate and
breast cancer therapy.
Cardio-Vascular/Respiratory Diseases
The GCRC at Harbor-UCLA provides research support
to the multidisciplinary clinical studies on campus. Research on
mechanisms and pathogenesis of diseases, physiological studies,
clinical pharmacology and therapeutic trials are examples.
