| Sun-Young Ahn, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
pediatric nephrology, congenital kidney anomalies, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, urinary tract infection, electrolyte disorders and complement-mediated kidney diseases |
Email |
Functional and structural characterization of organic anion transporters in the kidney, and investigating the role of scaffolding proteins in kidney development. |
| Hana Akselrod, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
infectious disease, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, HIV, travel medicine, opportunistic infections, |
Email |
HIV, opportunistic infections, travel medicine, and public health and studies the HIV-related processes in aging. |
| Debra Benator, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV Infections, |
Email |
HIV, Tuberculosis, Xpert MTB/RIF Rapid TB Diagnostics, Antiretroviral Adherence, and STIs. |
| John Bethea, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Anatomy & Cell Biology: SMHS |
Neurology, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurological Diseases, Cognitive Rehabilitation, |
Email |
Spinal Cord Injury, Astrocytes, Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis, Neuroinflammation, Traumatic Brain Injury, Neuroimmunology, Acquired Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurodegeneration, Neurobiology, Glioma, Neuron-Glia Interaction, Cognitive Rehabilitation, EAE, CNS Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases, Neuron Culture, Molecular Neurobiology, Neurogenesis, Nervous System Autoimmune Diseases |
| Jeffrey Bethony, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Ancylostomatoidea, Biological Specimen Banks, Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, Hookworm Infections, Ancylostomiasis, Vaccines, B-Lymphocytes, Biomarkers, T-Lymphocytes, Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Pre-clinical and clinical support of vaccines and translational research. Vaccine projects include immunology and serology assays and membership in the Hookworm Vaccine to Control Human Hookworm Infection in endemic countries (HOOKVAC) program. Translational medical research includes biobanking, epidemiology, cohort surveys, and biomarker development. |
| Catherine Bollard, MD, MBChB |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Cancer Immunology, Glioblastoma, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy, Sickle Cell, Hematology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, HIV Infections, T-Lymphocytes, Antigens, Nanoparticles, Cancer, Pediatrics |
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Intravenous mesenchymal stromal cell therapy for inflammatory bowel disease; adoptive immunotherapy for glioblastoma, leukemia, and lymphoma; cellular therapy for sickle cell disease; therapies for HIV; and cell-based immune therapeutics in hematology. |
| Marie Borum, MD, EdD, MPH |
Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
women's health, acidpeptic disorders, physician decision-making, health disparities, health disparity, colon cancer, liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, |
Email |
Physician decision-making, women's health, health disparities, acidpeptic disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, colon cancer and liver disease. |
| Alberto Bosque-Pardos, PhD, MBA |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
HIV-1, HIV Infections, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, Signal Transduction, STATs, HIV transcription, |
Email |
HIV infection and AIDS, HIV treatment, and HIV cure; HIV eradication by using benzotriazin derivatives to target the latent HIV-1 reservoir, developing pathogen recognition receptor agonists to reactivate latent HIV-1, and investigating the mechanisms controlling the establishment of HIV-1 latency. |
| Lisa Bowleg, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Psychology: CCAS |
Transgender Persons, Sexual and Gender Minorities, African Americans, HIV Infections, Cancer control and health equity, |
Email |
Individual and social factors and Black men’s HIV risk, intersectionality, and effect of intersectionality on stress and resilience in Black, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. |
| Beda Brichacek, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
HIV, Infectious diseases, innate immunity, cholesterol transport, exosomes, cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, Cancer , Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Role of innate immunity on HIV-1 transmission. |
| Paul Brindley, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
tropical medicine, helminthology, infection-related cancer, molecular genetics, gene drive , Cancer , Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Helminthic diseases and infection related cancers using functional genomics, cohort and laboratory studies. |
| Michael Bukrinsky, MD, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Gene Products, vpr, Poliovirus, Neuroaid, Genes, vpr, HIV Infections, Cholesterol, Enterovirus C, Inflammation, Human Immunodeficiency Virus Proteins, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, Infectious Diseases , Neurology, brain |
Email |
HIV and cholesterol, including the effects of HIV protein Nef on cholesterol homeostasis and the mechanisms behind the effects of genes regulating cholesterol metabolism on HIV replication, latency and pathogenesis. Research also includes analysis of the effects of Nef on macrophage polarization and epigenetics. |
| Sarah Calabrese, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Psychology: CCAS |
Homosexuality, Male, Sexual Behavior, Reproductive Health, Health Promotion, HIV Infections, Cancer control and health equity, |
Email |
Sexual stereotypes and discrimination in the context of health; sexual health promotion among Black men who have sex with men and other socially marginalized groups. Research identifies and addresses barriers to HIV prevention, including inequities in access to new and forthcoming biomedical prevention resources. |
| Amanda Castel, MD, MPH |
Prof |
Info |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: MISPH |
Children's Health, Epidemiology Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Infectious Disease, Health Outcome Surveillance, Population Health, |
Email |
HIV and related infectious diseases. |
| Aileen Chang, MD, MSPH |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Zika, Dengue, Chikungunya, Arthritis, Guillain-Barre, Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Clinical and public health management of dengue fever, both in the U.S. and internationally. |
| Jinjun Cheng, MD, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Pathology: CNH |
Hematopathology, Flow Cytometry, Pathologist |
Email |
Genetic and immune microenvironmental pathobiology of hematopoietic neoplasms; diagnostic services in hematopathology |
| Katherine Chiappinelli, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Cancer biology, interferon response, epigenetics, DNA methylation, immunotherapy, , Biochemistry , Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Epigenetic changes in cancer and how epigenetic drugs can reverse these, specifically focusing on noncoding regions of the genome and the tumor cell immune response. |
| Janet Conway, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Othopedics: Lifebridge |
bone and joint infection, limb lengthening |
Email |
Malunion,nonunion, bone and joint infection, limb lengthening |
| Keith Crandall, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: MISPH |
Infectious Disease, HIV/AIDS, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, omics, microbiome studies, cancer microbiome, |
Email |
Computational biology, population genetics, and bioinformatics of a variety of organisms, from crustaceans to agents of infectious diseases. |
| Conrad Cruz, MD, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
T-Lymphocytes, Drugs, Investigational, Haplotypes, Cell Proliferation, Nanoparticles, Immunotherapy, Opportunistic Infections, Neoplasms, Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy, Biomedical Enhancement Cancer, Pediatrics |
Email |
Cell enhancement, technologies for immunotherapy, and immune cell therapy for cancer and opportunistic infections. |
| Rodolfo Curiel, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Juvenile dermatomyositis, Inflammatory myopathies , |
Email |
Genetic risk and protective factors for myositis, outcome studies in juvenile and adult dermatomyositis and polymyositis, environmental exposures and disease flare in adult and juvenile dermatomyositis and polymyositis and clinical trials which focus on the response of myositis patients to different therapeutic agents. |
| Monica Dalal, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Ophthalmology: SMHS |
Uveitis and inflammatory conditions of the eye, Age-related macular degeneration, Diabetic retinopathy, Retinal vein occlusions, Central serous choroidopathy , |
Email |
Autoimmune retinopathy and degeneration, and inflammatory conditions of the eye. |
| Roberta DeBiasi, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, severe and emerging viral infections affecting pregnant women, neonates, immunocompromised hosts, and normal children, Zika, Ebola |
Email |
Viral Infections, Central nervous system infection, Congenital infection |
| David Diemert, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Schistosomiasis mansoni, Thrombospondins, Helminths, Vaccines, Ancylostomatoidea, Hookworm Infections, |
Email |
Vaccine trials in the U.S. and in Brazil and conducting studies of helminth epidemiology and immunology. |
| Ioannis Eleftherianos, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Biological Sciences: CCAS |
Parasites, Microbes, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Immune System, Symbiosis, Pathogenicity, |
Email |
Host-pathogen interactions using a model insect (Drosophila), a nematode parasite (Heterorhabditis), and its symbiotic insect-pathogenic bacterium (Photorhabdus); genes the bacteria use to infect and persist in the fly, what immune mechanisms are activated in the fly in response to infection, and how the nematode copes with the fly immune system. |
| W. Douglas Evans, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Prevention & Community Health: MISPH |
Reproductive Health, Tobacco, Asthma, Neoplasms, Exercise, Communications Media, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Obesity, HIV Infections, Diabetes Mellitus, Cancer control, health equity, Cancer, Patient-Centered Research |
Email |
Prevention and intervention programs using communication and marketing strategies; tobacco and cancer control; nutrition, physical activity, and obesity; diabetes; asthma; HIV/STDs; and reproductive health; digital media to deliver and evaluate health interventions. |
| Scott Evans, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Biostatistics Center: MISPH |
Biostatistics, Infectious Disease, statistics, diagnostics studies, benefit vs risk assessment, cancer control and health equity, |
Email |
Design, monitoring, analyses, and reporting of and education in clinical trials and diagnostic studies. |
| Rohan Fernandes, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Cancer Engineering, Nanoimmunotherapy, Biomaterials, Nanotechnology, Cancer, Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Ttranslational micro and nanotechnologies;engineered nanoimmunotherapy for treating neuroblastoma. |
| Marcia Firmani, PhD, MSPH |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Biomedical Laboratory Sciences: SMHS |
health function, Bacterial pathogenesis, tuberculosis, infectious diseases, molecular biology, reactive oxygen species, HIV, medical education, Academic Integrity, Pathogen Reduction Technology, |
Email |
Bacterial pathogenesis with extensive biosafety-level 2, 3 and 4 laboratory experience; biothreat agent characterization; identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence factors, comparing fitness among clinical isolates, and investigating Mycobacterium host-immune interactions; graduate student transfusion medicine research projects |
| Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Clinical Research & Leadership: SMHS |
health function, Nutrition and diet, Immunology, Inflammation, Microbiome, Metabolic Disease, Obesity, Weight Loss, Bariatric Surgery, Dietary Supplements, Public Health, Integrative Medicine, Cancer control, health equity, brain |
Email |
Nutrition and immunity through a translational research perspective; role of the microbiome and nutrition in promoting health, and the consequences of malnutrition in obesity; evaluating the role of vitamin D as an immune modulatory hormone particularly in skin, the primary site of vitamin D production and activation. |
| Adam Friedman, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Dermatology: SMHS |
Dermatology, Psoriasis, Skin Neoplasms, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Alopecia, Eczema, Urticaria, Acne Vulgaris, Sarcoidosis, Wound Healing, Cancer engineering, Cancer , Dermatology |
Email |
Medical and pediatric dermatology, including acne, eczema, psoriasis, skin infections, hair loss, wound healing, urticaria, blistering diseases, lupus, sarcoidosis, and skin cancer. |
| Pedro Gazzinelli, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
immunology, biology of helminth infections and allergic diseases, parasitology, and global health. |
Email |
Biomarkers for allergens- and helminth antigens-specific human Th2 cells subsets; multiomic profiling and TCR repertoire diversity of effector Th2 cells; pulmonary type-2 inflammation induced by helminth infection and allergic diseases; strategies of mass drug administration programs and diagnostics development for the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa |
| Mimi Ghosh, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: MISPH |
Immunity, Mucosal, Contraception Behavior, Anti-Infective Agents, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Urogenital System, HIV Infections, |
Email |
Sexual transmission of HIV in women and mucosal immune responses in the reproductive tract; endogenous antimicrobial molecules of the female reproductive tract and their regulation by sex hormones. |
| Monika Goyal, MD, MSCE |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Reproductive Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Emergency Service, Hospital, Health Disparities, Racial Disparities, health disparity, Emergency Medicine, Patient-Centered Research |
Email |
Adolescent sexual health, health disparities, and health services. |
| Mamta Gupta, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine: SMHS |
Lymphoma, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, Biochemistry , Cancer |
Email |
Therapeutic targets for the treatment of lymphoma. |
| Benjamin Hanisch, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
blood and Marrow Transplantation, Cancer and Blood Disorders, Infectious Diseases |
Email |
blood and Marrow Transplantation, Cancer and Blood Disorders, Infectious Diseases |
| Patrick Hanley, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Program for Cell Enhancement and Technologies for Immunotherapy, Cell therapy, Stem cell transplant, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, Good manufacturing practices, |
Email |
Stem cell transplantation, including bone marrow transplant and cord blood transplant; virus-specific immune cells from naïve T cells, such as those present in cord blood or virus-seronegative donors. |
| John Hawdon, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
hookworms, nematode development, insulin signaling, soil transmitted helminths, anthelmintic resistance, nematode transfection, biogas, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Molecular biology of the hookworm infective process - the role of nematode insulin signaling in infection; Anthelmintic resistanc; genetic manipulation of nematodes - transgenesis and CRISPR/Cas9 editing in hookworms and other nematodes; Human hookworm challenge model - testing hookworm vaccines in a human challenge model. 5. Helminth therapy - using human hookworms to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases |
| Dalia Haydar, Pharm.D., Ph.D. |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Neuro-Oncology, Tumor Immunology, CAR T cell therapy, pediatric oncology |
Email |
CAR T cell efficacy in pediatric brain tumors; cutting-edge technologies and innovative animal models that recapitulate human disease and barriers for adoptive immunotherapies. |
| Linda Herbert, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Food allergy, Diabetes, Behavioral interventions, Psychiatry |
Email |
Medical and psychosocial factors related to food allergy management and develops clinical interventions for youth with food allergies. |
| Amy Houghtelin (Hont), MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Immunotherapy, High-risk malignancies, |
Email |
Immunotherapy and high-risk malignancies; cancer immunology & immunotherapy |
| Michael Hsieh, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Urology: CNH |
Parasites, Urinary Tract, Bacteria, Inflammation, Bladder Cancer, Urology, Pediatrics |
Email |
Bladder inflammation in urinary tract infections and development of bladder cancer. |
| Wannaporn Ittiprasert Tanno, PhD |
AssocProf |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
neglected tropical diseases, CRISPR/Cas9, CRISPR/Cas12a, hookworm, Ancylostoma ceylanicum, blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni, biological carcinogenic fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
Email |
neglected tropical diseases; gene editing by CRISPR/Cas9 and CRISPR/Cas12a; hook worm; blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni |
| David Jacobsohn, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Graft vs Host Disease, Stem Cell Transplantation, Sickle Cell Anemia, bone marrow transplant, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
Email |
Impact on bone marrow and stem cell transplants. |
| Muralidharan Jagadeesan, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Clinical Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Post Transplant Infections, Clinical Immunosuppression, Chronic Graft loss , |
Email |
Kidney disease, education of patients with kidney disease, and transplant patients. |
| Jyoti Jaiswal, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Genomics & Precision Medicine: CNH |
Cell biology, Lysosome, Muscular dystrophy, Injury, Inflammation, Microscopy, Nanotechnology, Genomics , Pediatrics |
Email |
Cellular and molecular analysis of regulated secretion, and diseases with intracellular trafficking and secretion defects |
| Jeanne Jordan, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: MISPH |
Homosexuality, Male, Public Health, Papanicolaou Test, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV Infections, Infectious Disease Medicine, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Bacteremia, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, |
Email |
Infectious disease dynamics, pediatric AIDS, and public health. A recent projects is aimed at developing a molecular approach using PCR and pyrosequencing to more rapidly detect and identify the organism(s) responsible for bloodstream infection. |
| Donald Karcher, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pathology: SMHS |
Role of pathologists in value-based health care, accountable care organizations, medical workforce, clinical informatics, pathology informatics, hematopathology, lymphomas |
Email |
Pathophysiology and laboratory diagnosis of lymphomas and leukemias, effects of HIV infection on the hematopoietic system, bone marrow pathology, and the role of pathologists in coordinated patient care models. |
| Michael Keller, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Immunotherapy, Adoptive, Bone Marrow, Transplantation, Virus Diseases, Antiviral Agents, Immunity, T-Lymphocytes, Cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
Email |
Disorders of immunity and care of immunologically vulnerable patients; antiviral T-cell therapies in bone marrow transplantation, primary immunodeficiency disorders. |
| Imtiaz Khan, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Toxoplasmosis, Vaccines, T-Lymphocytes, Cancer immunology & immunotherapy, Cancer , Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Host immunity and pathogenesis of Encephalitozoan cuniculi; long-term immunity against toxoplasmosis, development and maintenance of CD8+ T cell immunity, and vaccine targets to prevent toxoplasmosis. |
| Pooja Khera, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Dermatology: SMHS |
Medical dermatology, Resident teaching, Inpatient dermatology, Community service, |
Email |
Treatments for chronic inflammatory dermatologic conditions, nonhealing scalp ulcers, scalp dermatomyositis, and residency medical education. |
| Shikha Khosla, MBBS, MHA |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Factors impacting glycemic control including fitness, insulin antibodies, Procalcitonin as a marker of infection, Metabolic implications of Sleep Apnea , |
Email |
Infectious and noninfectious etiologies and determining the clinical outcomes of diabetes patients. |
| Susan Knoblach, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Genomics & Precision Medicine: CNH |
Spinal Cord Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, inflammation, neurodegeneration, CNS repair, Genomics , Pediatrics |
Email |
Inflammatory/immune mechanisms of neurodegeneration and repair after CNS injury (spinal cord and brain trauma, neonatal brain injury) and in multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). |
| Nirbhay Kumar, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Global Health: MISPH |
malaria, vaccinology, biochemistry, public health, immunology, cell biology, |
Email |
Immunobiology of malaria transmission; research areas include the development of malaria transmission blocking vaccine, the immunology of malaria, pre-clinical evaluation of vaccines and co-infections with other neglected tropical parasites. |
| Irene Kuo, PhD, MPH |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: MISPH |
Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, Infectious Disease, Prevention, racial disparities, drug use remission, drug use disorders, |
Email |
Epidemiology of HIV and viral hepatitis (HBV and HCV) in high risk populations, including injection and non-injection drug users and men who have sex with men in both domestic and international settings. |
| Christopher Lazarski, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
cancer immunology & immunotherapy, immunology and infectious disease, T cell therapies targeting viral infections and tumors, |
Email |
Cancer immunology & immunotherapy, immunology and infectious disease, T cell therapies targeting viral infections and tumors, |
| David Leitenberg, MD, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Immunology, Signal Transduction, T lymphocyte activation, Clinical Flow Cytometry Diagnostics , |
Email |
CD4 regulation of T cell effector function and FAS-mediated cell death. |
| Susan LeLacheur, DrPH, MPH |
Prof |
Info |
Physician Assistant Studies: SMHS |
health equity, medical education, Bias and stereotyping, Health disparities, HIV/AIDS, Infectious disease, Health Behaviors, health disparity, medical education, Medical Education , Physical Therapy & Physician Assistant |
Email |
Health disparities and reducing the effects of bias and stereotyping within clinical interactions; behavioral aspects of patient care including patient-provider interactions. |
| Nickie Lepcha, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Geriatrics and Hospice/Palliative care, Emergency Management, Long term care, Infectious disease, |
Email |
Palliative and long term care and reducing catheter associated urinary tract infections. |
| Cindy Liu, MD, MPH, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Environmental & Occupational Health: MISPH |
Staphylococcus aureus, Anti-Infective Agents, Nose, Disease Susceptibility, Microbiota, Anti-Bacterial Agents, HIV Infections, |
Email |
Role of the microbiome in modifying host susceptibility to pathogens such as HIV and Staphylococcus aureus; reducing antibiotic-resistant infections through improving antimicrobial stewardship and the development of rapid diagnostics. |
| Naomi Luban, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Fetal Hemoglobin, Graft vs Host Disease, Blood Transfusion, Genes, Modifier, Platelet Transfusion, Hematology-Oncology, Cancer, Cancer , Pediatrics |
Email |
Transfusion safety, infectious and non-infectious complications of transfusion, including RBC and HLA alloimmunization, graft versus host disease, and evidence based transfusion practices; molecular characterization of genes associated with alloimmunization and genetic modifiers of hemoglobin F expression. |
| Jose Lucar Lloveras, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
antimicrobial stewardship, COVID-19, HIV, mycobacterial infections, |
Email |
Mycobacterial infections; Emerging Therapeutics in COVID-19; HIV Infection |
| Jie Luo, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Myasthenia gravis, autoimmune illness, immunotherapy, |
Email |
Myasthenia gravis, how the intrinsic properties of autoantibody determine its pathogenicity, and how to specifically suppress the pathological autoimmune response in myasthenia gravis without suppressing desirable immune responses; transgenic rodent models, protein crystallography, and artificial intelligence-based structure prediction; vaccine-based and cell-based approaches to developing antigen-specific immunotherapy for this disease. |
| Rebecca Lynch, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Antibodies, Neutralizing, HIV Infections, Vaccination, Zika, Cancer immunology & immunotherapy, Cancer , Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Antibody responses to virus infection and vaccination; characteristics of neutralizing antibodies as potential therapeutic agents against HIV infection as well as investigating ways to promote their production through vaccination; cross-neutralizing antibody responses to flaviviruses. |
| Sanjay Maggirwar, PhD, MBA |
Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
HIV, HIV-1 dementia, aging, inflammatory response, neurocognitive impairment, cardiovascular impairment, cellular proteins, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, Infectious Diseases, brain |
Email |
Inflammatory secondary complications of HIV infection experienced by those living longer with the disease, compared to their aging, uninfected counterparts. |
| Gulnara Mamyrova, MD, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
pediatric rheumatology, juvenile myositis, pediatric autoimmune diseases, immunology, pediatric clinical pharmacology , |
Email |
Juvenile myositis, environmental factors and illness features associated with dermatomyositis, and clinical and laboratory features distinguishing polymyositis and muscular dystrophy. |
| Victoria Mann, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
parasitology, tropical medicine, cell biology, carcinogenesis, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, molecular genetics, helminthology, schistosomes, food-borne flukes , |
Email |
Parasitology and tropic medicine, including infections from liver flukes focusing on genome editing and treatments. |
| Paul Marvar, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pharmacology & Physiology: SMHS |
Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, inflammation and stress and anxiety disorders, PTSD , |
Email |
Post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of exposure to physical or psychological trauma; how stress and anxiety related disorders (i.e., PTSD) contribute to increased CVD risk. Integrative (i.e., neuroimmune) mechanisms related to the brain neurocircuitry involved in cardiovascular autonomic and fear/stress regulation. |
| Timothy McCaffrey, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiovascular, Genomics, Biomarkers, Appendicitis, Biofilms, T regulatory cells, Transcript Profiling, RNA sequencing, Laboratory Developed Tests, Genomics , Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Cardiovascular disease, genomics, and stem cells; diagnosis of coronary artery disease by changes in the RNA transcriptome in whole blood. RNA biomarker panel predictive for CVD; RNA biomarkers of appendicitis' activation of the circulating neutrophils. |
| Chase McCann, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
Email |
Cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
| David Michaels, PhD, MPH |
Prof |
Info |
Environmental & Occupational Health: MISPH |
SARS-CoV-2, COVID, worker safety, disadvantaged communities, infectious disease, mental health, HIV, |
Email |
Worker safety and health and recently he has focused on improving the protection of workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2. |
| Mohamed Mohamed, MD, MS, MPH, FAAP |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Global Health: MISPH |
health outcomes, pediatrics, neonatal moralities, pregnancy outcomes, neonatal infections, global health, |
Email |
Neonatal moralities, morbidities, pregnancy outcomes, neonatal infections. |
| Christopher Mores, ScD |
Prof |
Info |
Global Health: MISPH |
Zoonotic Disease, Vaccinology, Infectious Disease, Global Health, Immunology, Zika |
Email |
Countermeasures to emerging disease threats. |
| Magali Moretto, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
Immunology, mucosal immunology, CD8 T cells, E. cuniculi, gut mucosal immune response, CD8+ T cells, immunotherapeuthic strategies, gut pathogens, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Gut mucosal immune response to infectious pathogen Encephalitooon cuniculi. |
| Emiliano Mugnaini, MD, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
hematologist, T cell receptor |
Email |
T cell receptor repertoires in T cell subsets during human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. |
| Matthew Ng, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Surgery: SMHS |
Colon Cancer, Rectal Cancer, Anal Cancer, Diverticulitis, Hemorrhoids, Anal Fistula and Fissure, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Transanal minimally invasive surgery |
Email |
Minimally invasive surgical techniques for malignant and benign diseases including inflammatory bowel disease; transanal minimally invasive surgery for rectal pathologies; anal dysplasia, hemorrhoids, fistula and fissure. |
| Bao-Ngoc Nguyen, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Surgery: SMHS |
Aortic aneurysm, diabetic wound healing, ischemic wound healing, therapeutic angiogenesis, cardiovascular diseases, immunology, spinal cord ischemia, |
Email |
Cardiovascular diseases, heart and lung transplant immunology, ischemia, and angiogenesis and vasculogenesis in the context of wound healing in diabetic patients. |
| Ehsan Nobakht Haghighi, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Kidney Ultrasonography, Infection associated kidney diseases, Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, Psychosocial status of dialysis patients , |
Email |
Immune complex associated kidney diseases as well as Kidney Ultrasonography. |
| Kavita Parikh, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Asthma, Community Health Workers, Patient Readmission, Patient Discharge, Pneumonia, Community-Acquired Infections, |
Email |
Pediatric asthma, racial and ethnic differences in pediatric readmission, and care of community acquired pneumonia. |
| Paola Pergami, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Neurology: CNH |
pediatric neurology, pediatric stroke, neuroimaging, brain plasticity, seizures, |
Email |
Seizures in pediatric stroke (SIPS), the role of inflammation in pediatric stroke (VIPS), and addressing safety and efficacy of mechanical clot removal in children with stroke. |
| Dinesh Pillai, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
cycle regulators, circadian oscillator genes, respiratory epithelial regeneration, asthma, pulmonary diseases, lung inflammation, airway epithelium genomics, |
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Genetic modifiers in airway inflammation and asthma and his clinical interests are in asthma, complicated pneumonia and interstitial lung disease. |
| Douglas Postels, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Neurology, Infectious Disease, Malaria, |
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Neural infectious diseases. He focuses on the neurological effects of malaria in African children. |
| Diego Preciado, MD, PhD |
Prof |
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Surgery: CNH |
Otitis Media with Effusion, Inflammation, |
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How unregulated inflammation may be a central feature of multiple cancerous and non-cancerous diseases; pathological agents, mostly inflammatory, in chronic ear infections; human otitis media; middle ear effusion. |
| Lance Price, PhD |
Prof |
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Environmental & Occupational Health: MISPH |
Anti-Bacterial Agents, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Urinary Tract Infections, Microbiota, |
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Livestock-associated MRSA, foodborne urinary tract infections, the role of the human microbiome in health and disease, and the interface between science and policy to address the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance; molecular approaches to trace the origins of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and develop strategies to block their transmission. |
| Dominic Raj, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Kidney, Blood Pressure Determination, Cardiovascular Diseases, Inflammation, |
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Cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease, optimal blood pressure target for protection of kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, inflammation in chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease, and mechanism of muscle wasting in renal disease; modulating gut microbiome using designer pre-biotics and pro-biotics; genetic basis for progression of renal and cardiovascular diseases. |
| Natella Rakhmanina, MD, AAHIVS, PhD |
Prof |
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Pediatrics: CNH |
Pediatric and adolescent HIV, Clinical pharmacology, antiretroviral therapy, individualized treatment of HIV, epidemiology, |
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Pediatric HIV; epidemiology and treatment of HIV infection in children and adolescents and on the pharmacogenetics of antiretroviral therapy in pediatrics. |
| Deepa Rastogi, PhD |
Adj Prof |
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Pediatrics: CNH |
Childhood asthma, Obesity |
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immune mechanisms that underlie urban minority childhood asthma, with a current focus on obesity-related asthma; role of epigenetics in establishing the non-atopic immune patterns among obese children with asthma, the mechanisms by which metabolic abnormalities are associated with the non-atopic immune response and the mechanisms that link systemic non-atopic immune responses with airway disease. |
| Juan Reyes, MD |
Assoc Prof |
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Medicine: SMHS |
Medical Education, Patient Handoffs/Sign-out, Venous Thromboembolism, HIV , |
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Handoff skills training during medicine clerkship and management of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndromes. |
| Afsoon Roberts, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
HIV treatment, opportunistic infections, female genital tract immunity, fever in the immunocompromised host, sexually transmitted disease, HIV and aging , |
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HIV infection and HIV-related opportunistic infections. |
| Carlos Sanchez, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
cancer, immunology, brain tumors, pediatrics, |
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Cellular engineering of CAR NK cells for brain tumor immunotherapy |
| Anthony Sandler, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
tumor immunology, tumor vaccine therapy, surgical practice, childhood solid tumors, surgical polymer sealant, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
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Tumor immunology and tumor vaccine therapy, as well as the application of novel devices and technologies in surgical practice. |
| Victoria Shanmugam, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Rheumatology, Wound Healing, Vasculitis, Scleroderma, Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Lupus, |
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Autoimmune diseases and the interplay between the host immune system and the microbiome in diseases. |
| Hemant Sharma, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
food allergies, immunology, pediatrics, clinician wellness, mental health, anaphylaxis |
Email |
Food allergies and clinician wellness. |
| William Sheehan, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Clinical immunology, Allergens, Pediatrics, Peanut allergies, |
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Clinical immunology and peanut allergies in children |
| Dipa Sheth, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Urticaria, Food allergy, Eczema, Asthma , |
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Urticaria, Food allergy, Eczema, Asthma , |
| Sheetal Sheth, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Obstetrics & Gynecology: SMHS |
Surgical Wound Infection, Professional Burnout, OB-GYN , Surgery |
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Surgical site infections and identification of physician mental health and burn out. |
| Brett Shook, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine: SMHS |
skin resident adipocytes, molecular pathways, tissue repair, immune cells, tissue inflammation, regeneration, cancer, Biochemistry, Dermatology |
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Communication between skin resident adipocytes and immune cells during tissue inflammation, regeneration and cancer. |
| Nicholas Shworak, MD, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Pharmacology & Physiology: SMHS |
Glycobiology, Atherosclerosis, Inflammation, Sepsis, Coronary artery disease, Medical Education , Pharmacology & Physiology |
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Hydrocarbon receptor signaling affects on obesity mediation, life span, cardiac gene expression, and growth, and also studies heparan sulfates in the lung. |
| Marc Siegel, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Hepatitis C infection, HIV Infection, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Prevention of HIV |
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention, chronic hepatitis C, and HIV. |
| Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH |
Prof |
Info |
Dermatology: SMHS |
dermato-epidemiology, eczema, contact dermatitis, inflammatory skin disease, biomarkers, clinical trial design, |
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Drug development, clinical trial design, biomarkers, dermato-epidemiology, health services research, patient-reported outcomes, comorbidities and burden of itch and inflammatory skin disease and evidence-based dermatology. |
| Emily Smith, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Global Health: MISPH |
epidemiology, infectious disease, maternal health, nutrition, health interventions |
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Epidemiological data from across the life course to improve maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in low- and middle-income countries. |
| Natalia Soriano-Sarabia, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine: SMHS |
HIV, immunotherapy, latency reversing agents, |
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Reservoirs of persistent HIV infection, immunotherapy using gamma/delta T cells, and discovery of novel latency reversing agents for HIV cure. |
| Elizabeth Sweeney, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine: SMHS |
Cancer Research, Cellular therapy, Immunology and immunotherapy, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, |
Email |
Cancer Research, Cellular therapy, Immunology and immunotherapy, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology |
| Punam Thakkar, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Surgery: SMHS |
tumor, surgery, head and neck surgery, transoral robotic surgery, cancer immunology, |
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Treatment of benign and malignant tumors of the head and neck, microvascular free tissue transfer, and transoral robotic surgery (TORS) with an emphasis on preserving functional outcomes. |
| Kathleen Thoma, EdD |
Asst Prof |
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Clinical Research & Leadership: SMHS |
health equity, medical education, Clinical trials administration, Access to clinical trials, Health equity, Health literacy, HIV/infectious disease, Medical Education , Infectious Diseases |
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Clinical research studies in populations with HIV/infectitious diseases; diversity and inclusion in clinical research, increasing patient centricity and patient engagement in clinical research, social determinants of health/health equity, health literacy, and health science distance education; qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods with an emphasis on qualitative methods. |
| Briony Varda, MD, PhD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Urology: CNH |
spina bifida, colorectal and pelvic floor malformations, open and robotic techniques for reconstructive surgery. |
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Spina bifida and the neurogenic bladder, care of patients with genitourinary anomalies associated with colorectal and pelvic floor malformations, bladder exstrophy and epispadias, cloacal exstrophy, posterior urethral valves, vesicoureteral reflux and urinary tract infections, megaureter and congenital ureteropelvic junction obstruction. |
| Yan Wang, MD, DrPH |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Prevention & Community Health: MISPH |
Behavioral Health, Biostatistics, Chronic Disease, Epidemiology, Health Disparities, health disparity, Mental Health, Obesity, Prevention, Program Evaluation, Underserved Populations, Women's Health, |
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Epidemiology and prevention intervention on risky health behaviors and health problems, including substance use, especially tobacco smoking, obesity, risky sexual behaviors, unintentional injuries, mental health disorders, and medical problems, e.g. lung cancer and HIV infection. Statistical methodology and causal inference |
| David Watkins, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Pathology: SMHS |
HIV, cellular immune responses, vaccines, immunology, cancer biology, genomics, stem cell research, diagnostic research, |
Email |
Studying cellular immune responses for rationally developing effective vaccines |
| Jennifer Webb, MD, MSCE |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Patient Compliance, Chelating Agents, Anemia, Sickle Cell, Stem Cell Transplantation, Cancer , Pediatrics |
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Research include stem cell transplantation and sickle cell disease; cancer immunology & immunotherapy |
| William Weglicki, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine: SMHS |
Neurogenic inflammation, hypomagnesemia, EGFR-TKI anticancer drugs, Biochemistry , Cancer |
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Role of hypomagnesemia and magnesium deficiency in cardiovascular inflammation in animal models; antioxidant properties of cardiovascular drugs, effects of elevated cardiac iron levels in rodents, and iron accumulation and oxidative injury in endothelial cells. |
| Amy Weintrob, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Multidrug resistant organisms, HIV, Trauma associated infections , |
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HIV infection, hepatitis C infection, and infection control/hospital epidemiology. |
| Elizabeth Wells, PhD |
Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Brain Tumor, neuro-oncology, pediatrics, neuro-inflammatory disorders |
Email |
Brain Tumor, neuro-oncology, pediatrics, neuro-inflammatory disorders |
| Michael Whalen, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Urology: SMHS |
Robotic Surgical Procedures, Prostatic Neoplasms, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Genomics, Urologic Neoplasms, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, Cancer , Kidney Research |
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Robotic surgery techniques, optimization of pathologic reporting of urological cancers, and multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) and its role in prostate cancer management—active surveillance, post-treatment biochemical recurrence, focal ablation, and comparison to/integration with commercially-available serum-based and tissue-based genomic assays. |
| Kibileri Williams, MD |
Asst Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Pediatric surgery, thoracic surgery, minimally invasive techniques, inflammatory bowel disease, surgical oncology, Surgery |
Email |
Pediatric surgery |
| Birte Wistinghausen, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
leukemia, lymphoma, Epstein-Barr virus, post-transplant lymphoproliferative syndrome, cellular therapy, cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
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non-Hodgkin lymphoma, specifically on the role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (PTLD) and cellular therapy in EBV-positive PTLD as well as the biology and treatment of B-lymphoblastic lymphoma. |
| Keith Wroblewski, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Ophthalmology: SMHS |
Syphilis, Mantle-Cell Lymphoma, Spirituality, Uveitis, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Sarcoidosis, Cancer , Ophthalmology |
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Ocular Inflammatory Diseases such as tuberculosis, Ocular Pathology including sarcoidosis, fibrous solitary tumors and mantle cell lymphomas, PET Scanning of undifferentiated uveitis disorders, Ocular Syphilis, and spirituality and adherence to medical therapy. |
| Jianhua Yang, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Pediatrics: CNH |
Pediatric Cancers, Neuroblastoma, Cancer immunology & immunotherapy, |
Email |
Pediatric Cancers; Neuroblastoma; |
| Michael Yao, MD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Inflammatory bowel disease, common variable immunodeficiency, mucosal immunology , Gastroenterology , Infectious Diseases |
Email |
Inflammatory bowel disease, human gut microbiota profiles, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. |
| Mamoun Younes, MD |
Prof |
Info |
Pathology: SMHS |
Barrett's esophagus, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, tumors, adjuvant tamoxifen therapy, inflammatory bowel disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, |
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Biomarkers and translational research including p53 protein overexpression in Barrett’s esophagus and correlation with risk of malignant progression. |
| Huimin (Mindy) Yu, MD, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
inflammatory bowel disease, adipose, adipokine, colitis, organoid |
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Pathological significance of the impaired gut-fat axis in IBD. Using mouse models, human organoids, and adipose stem cell cultures, molecular “crosstalk” between mesenteric fat and intestinal inflammation in IBD. |
| Eric Yvon, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Medicine: SMHS |
Cancer Immunology, Microbial Oncology, cell therapy, stem cell transplantation, tumor targeting, |
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Stem Cell transplantation, CAR gene-modified T-cell and NK-cell programs to enhance T and NK cells survival, proliferation, and tumor targeting within the immunosuppressive tumor micro-environment. |
| Xiaoyan Zheng, PhD |
Assoc Prof |
Info |
Anatomy & Cell Biology: SMHS |
Cancer, Child, Medulloblastoma, Indicators and Reagents, Genetic Background, Genotype, Antibodies, Signal Transduction, Brain Neoplasms, Cell Communication, Mutation, Anatomy & Pathology, Cancer, lung |
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Target genes regulated by the Hh signal and molecular mechanisms in cell-cell interactions; trafficking of Hh receptors (II). |
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