Department of Bioscience Research
Faculty and Staff
Chair
Mustafa K. Dabbous, MS, PhD
Chair & Professor
mdabbous@uthsc.edu
Directors
George T.J. Huang, DDS, MSD, DSc
Professor & Director for Stem Cells and Regenerative Treatments
ghuang4@uthsc.edu
Antheunis Versluis, PhD
Professor, Director of Biomaterials
antheun@uthsc.edu
Faculty
Ammaar Abidi, DDS, PhD
Assistant Professor
aabidi@uthsc.edu
Jegdish P. Babu, BS, MS, PhD
Professor
jbabu@uthsc.edu
Franklin Garcia-Godoy, DDS, MS, PhD, PhD
Professor
godoy@uthsc.edu
Edward Harris, PhD
Professor
eharris@uthsc.edu
Edwin Thomas, MS, PhD
Professor
elthomas@uthsc.edu
Mark Scarbecz, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean, Institutional Affairs
mscarbec@uthsc.edu
David Tipton, DDS, PhD
Professor
dtipton@uthsc.edu
Yanhui Zhang, BS, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
yzhang36@uthsc.edu
Staff
Mary Margaret Jefferson, BS
Senior Research Coordinator
mjefferson@uthsc.edu
Brian R. Morrow, BS, MS
Senior Research Specialist
morrow@uthsc.edu
Darlene Fulton
Research Technician
dfulton7@uthsc.edu
Iva Pendleton
Administrative Services Assistant
ipendlet@uthsc.edu
Colette W. Stewart, RDH, BS, MSOL
Clinical Research Associate
cstewa32@uthsc.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kiran Kumar Reddi, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
kreddi@uthsc.edu
Mingyue Liu, DDS, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar
Mliu31@utshc.edu