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Sanjay Arvind Desai
Research TopicsWe are interested in how malaria parasites acquire nutrients and other essential solutes from the human bloodstream. Our studies have identified …
Senthil K. Muthuswamy
Research TopicsResearch from our laboratory was among the first to employ three-dimensional cell culture (organoids) to bridge the gap between growing cells as …
Sergey L. Leikin
Research TopicsThe extracellular matrix (ECM) is involved in a wide variety of disorders, ranging from rare genetic abnormalities of skeletal development to suc…
Sergey Michael Bezrukov
Research TopicsBiophysics of Large Membrane ChannelsWe study mitochondrial and bacterial membrane proteins that form “large” beta-barrel channels responsible fo…
Romina Goldszmid
Research TopicsOur laboratory aims to understand the underlying mechanisms controlling mononuclear phagocyte (MP) function in pathological situations such as du…
Sam M. Mbulaiteye
Research TopicsDr. Sam Mbulaiteye conducts research to understand the etiology of Burkitt lymphoma (BL), a cancer that occurs worldwide but has its highest inci…
Rose R. Yang
Research TopicsDr. Rose Yang's research focuses primarily on the etiology and molecular heterogeneity of breast cancer, in addition to the genetics of chor…
Rosa Nguyen
Research TopicsThe goal of my laboratory is to apply cutting-edge experimental systems and methods to develop new immunotherapies for patients with solid tumors…
Ruth M. Pfeiffer
Research TopicsDr. Pfeiffer's research focuses on statistical methods for absolute risk prediction, laboratory methods and problems arising in genetic epid…