
Purnima Bhanot, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Biology of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium |

Raymond Birge, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cellular actions of oncogenes and proto-oncogenes; Recognition and phagocytosis of apoptotic cells |

Theresa Liyun Chang, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Studies the mechanisms of mucosal determinants and sex hormones modulating viral infection, cancer and disease outcomes. |

Alok Choudhary, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Infection and Inflammation. |

Sylvia Christakos, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Mechanisms involved in the pleitropic actions of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 |

David Dubnau, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Studies DNA uptake during genetic transformation and the regulation of bacterial competence, sporulation and biofilms. |

Emanuel Goldman, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Accuracy and Efficiency of Protein Synthesis Elongation in Escherichia coli |

Utz Herbig, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Telomere induced Senescence in Cancer and Aging |

Pingping Hou, Ph.D..
Research Focus: Understand and overcome KRAS targeted therapy resistance, and develop myeloid cell therapy to treat pancreatic cancer. |

David B. Kaback, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Meiotic Pairing and Chromosome Segregation |

Hee-Sook Kim, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Molecular understanding of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative parasite of African sleeping sickness. |

Sergei Kotenko, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Study of cytokines, their receptors and biological activities |

Fred Kramer, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Design of nucleic acids whose functions enable the detection of target genes in assays whose results improve people’s health. |

Hong Li, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Proteomics and bioinformatics research |

David Lukac, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Molecular host-virus interactions that regulate lytic reactivation of Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus from latency |

Carol Lutz, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Regulation of gene expression by post-transcriptional mechanisms |

Salvatore A.E. Marras. Ph.D.
Research Focus: Develops novel nucleic acid amplification assays and studies the properties of fluorescent nucleic acid hybridization probes. |

Veronika Miskolci, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Immunometabolism of inflammation and tissue repair |

Matthew B. Neiditch, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Structural Biology of Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signal Transduction |

Alexandros Papachristodoulou, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Precision medicine, Prostate Cancer, Mitochondrial Biology, Oncogenetics, Pre-clinical cancer modeling. |

Nikhat Parveen, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Virulence factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi |

Vasileios Petrou, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Structure-function relationship of membrane proteins |

Melissa Rogers, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cellular and molecular biology of BMP2 |

Katsunori Sugimoto, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cell Cycle, DNA damage signaling, Checkpoint, Cellular signal transduction, telomere regulation, Cancer |

Carolyn Suzuki, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Regulation of mitochondrial genome stability and expression; Mitochondrial apoptosis |

Ian P. Whitehead, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Signal Transduction and Oncogenesis |

Tania Wong, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Investigates host-pathogen interactions, focusing on how opportunistic airway pathogens manipulate host metabolic responses to evade immune clearance. |

Lok Yin Roy Wong, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Coronavirus biology, virus-host interaction and pathogenesis using novel models and approaches. |

Jason H. Yang, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Systems biology and synthetic biology of chronic and infectious diseases |

Chaoyang Xue, Ph.D.
Research Focus: Cryptococcus neoformans; Virulence; Antifungal drug; Host signal sensing: Receptor |
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