Ion Channels in Health and Disease

Geoffrey S. Pitt is the Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute. His current research investigates the structure, function and regulation ion channels and the disease that occur (“channelopathies”) from abnormal ion channel function. His laboratory’s use electrophysiology, biochemistry, structural biology, and animal models to discern how channelopathies cause diseases such as cardiac arrhythmias, epilepsy, autism, and ataxias.

1. Calcium channel auxiliary subunits in pain management
2. Sodium channels and pain
3. Voltage-gated ion channels in cancer
4. Novel channels regulating somatosensation
5. Ion channels in epilepsy
6. Skeletal myopathies caused by channelopathies
7. Endocrine disorders caused by channelopathies
8. Emerging roles of CaCC channels in health and disease
9. New roles for ion channels in neuropsychiatric disorders
10. Pharmacology and pathophysiology of calcium channels
11. Inherited cardiac arrhythmias
12. Ion channels and diabetes
13. Migraines and calcium channels
14. Immunity and ion channels