Jia Zhuo, MD, PhD, is the director of Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence and a tenured professor in the Department of Physiology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He joined Tulane from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he served as a tenured professor and the director of Receptor and Signal Transduction Laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Joseph Mudd's lab iseeks to understand the underlying mechanisms of differential disease outcomes in progressive and non-progressive SIV infection. In the former setting, a major aspect of the work is interested in examining the immunological and virological factors favoring viral persistence in the GI tract during ART. In the latter setting, Mudd examines the molecular mechanisms governing HIV entry receptor control, a host adaptation that has evolved to allow natural hosts to subvert disease progression.

Jolie Montreuil, MSN, APRN, NP-C, has served Greater New Orleans as a family nurse practitioner since 2017. She is a New Orleans native who received her Master of Science in Nursing with a family nurse practitioner focus at the University of Louisiana–Lafayette (2016) and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Holy Cross (2005). As a registered nurse she worked in critical care, pediatrics, emergency medicine and medevac.

Jennifer A. Manuzak received her PhD in immunology from the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, after which she trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute Cochin, Paris.

Dr. Jeff Lackey joins the Tulane dermatology team after retiring from a career in the U.S. Army, where he capped 25 years of military service by heading the Dermatology Service at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Lackey attended medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and dermatology residency at Walter Reed.

Dr. John Joslyn is board certified in diagnostic imaging and neuroradiology, with 15 years of academic experience at the University of Maryland, Tulane and LSU. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, he is fellowship trained and did a residency at the University of South Alabama.

Jorge A. Castorena is an assistant professor who has recently joined Chairman David W. Busija and the faculty at the Department of Pharmacology – School of Medicine. Castorena received his BSc and MSc in physics from the University of Guanajuato in Leon, Mexico. In 2014, he graduated from the PhD program in bioengineering from the University of Missouri. At the same institution, and prior to coming to Tulane, Castorena worked as a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Michael J. Davis.