School of Medicine

Biochemistry

Adjunct Faculty

 

Name

Research interests

 

Dr. Haydee E. P. Bazan
Professor
(hbazan1@lsuhsc.edu)

Retina and cornea biochemistry; neural synthesis and turnover of membrane lipids including phosphoinositides; dynamics of membrane phospholipids in photoreceptor cells

 

Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan
Professor
(nbazan@lsuhsc.edu)

Neurochemistry; membrane phospholipids in experimental models of retinal degenerative diseases, epilepsy, and stroke; biosynthesis of prostaglandins and other eicosinoids; metabolism of docosahexanoic and arachidonic acids

 

Dr. John Doucet
Assistant Professor
(biol-jpd@nicholls.edu)

Genetic diseases in Louisiana populations; Acadian Usher syndrome; neurobiology of vision and hearing; genetic epidemiology of diseases; molecular anthropology of Louisiana populations

 

Dr. Augusto Ochoa

Professor of Pediatrics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biochemistry

T cell function, Cytokine production, Macrophage-T cell interaction, Immune regulation, Immune dysfunction and disease, Tumor Immunology