Sudha Biddinger (she/her)
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Fatty liver disease, and Gallstones
Research: Defining the molecular chain of events that link obesity, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease, and gallstones.
Flaminia Catteruccia (she/her)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Faculty Director, PhD Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health
Diseases: Malaria
Research: Interactions between mosquito reproductive biology and development of Plasmodium parasites; Generation of novel strategies to block malaria transmission.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER, iCAM: Introduction to Culturally Aware Mentorship training
David Christiani
Department of Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology
Diseases: Cancer, Acute and Chronic Lung Disease, Birth Outcomes and Development, Metabolic Disorder
Research: Studying the impact of exposures to various pollutants on health and the interactions between host factors and environmental exposures in producing acute and chronic diseases.
Kizzmekia Corbett (she/her)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: SARS-CoV-2
Research: Utilizing viral immunology expertise to propel novel vaccine development for pandemic preparedness.
Nika Danial (she/her)
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Diabetes, Cancer and Seizure Disorders
Research: Molecular determinants and functional consequences of metabolic fuel choice and flexibility in health and disease.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Immaculata De Vivo
Department of Epidemiology
Diseases: Hormonal Cancers – Endometrial, Breast and Ovarian
Research: Understand mechanisms of carcinogenesis and to establish association with disease for future prevention.
Manoj Duraisingh
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Malaria
Research: Molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of human malaria.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Sarah Fortune (she/her)
Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Tuberculosis
Research: Secretion and pathogenesis in M. tuberculosis.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Jeffrey Fredberg
Department of Environmental Health
Diseases: Asthma
Research: Identification of the mechanical basis of airway and lung parenchymal function at the levels of organ, tissue, cell, and protein.
Wendy Garrett (she/her)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Colon Cancer, Inflammatory bowel diseases
Research: Microbiota and immune function in health and disease states.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Smita Gopinath (she/her)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Genital Herpes
Research: The impact of the host microbiome on immune responses to infectious pathogens.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Yonatan Grad (he/his)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Gonorrhea, Dengue virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Staphylococcus aureus
Research: How pathogens evolve and spread through populations using a combination and experimental methods.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Adam Haber (he/his)
Department of Environmental Health
Diseases: Asthma
Research: Using computational and machine learning approaches to analyze single-cell genomics data in order to investigate the differential impact of environmental exposures, particularly the household allergens mold and dust mites, on rare airway cell types which triggers chronic lung inflammation and asthma.
Gökhan Hotamisligil
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Department of Nutrition
Diseases: Diabetes, Insulin resistance, Obesity, Atherosclerosis
Research: Regulatory pathways which control energy metabolism.
Sheng (Tony) Hui (he/his)
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Cancer cachexia, Obesity, Diabetes
Research: Applying and developing metabolomics and metabolic flux methods to understand the regulation of body weight, focusing on the body weight loss in cancer patients (cancer cachexia)
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Curtis Huttenhower
Department of Biostatistics
Diseases: Human Microbiome, Computational Biology, Microbial Ecology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Autoimmune disorders
Research: Computational methods for systems biology using data mining in large genomic data collections.
Phyllis Kanki
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: HIV/AIDS
Research: Explores viral mechanisms for the differences in observed biology between HIV-2 and HIV-1. Studies on the impact of Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya virus on neonatal outcomes and natural and vaccinations induced immunity to SARS-CoV-2.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
C. Ronald Kahn
Department of Medicine
Diseases: Diabetes and Obesity
Research: Insulin signal transduction and mechanisms of altered signaling in diabetes and metabolic disease.
Nora Kory (she/her)
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Cancer, Metabolic Diseases, Aging
Research: Role of organelles and metabolic compartmentalization in physiology and disease. disease.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Marc Lipsitch(he/his)
Department of Epidemiology, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Streptococcus pneumoniae, Antigenic variation, Antimicrobial resistance
Research: Effect of naturally acquired host immunity, vaccine-induced immunity & other public health interventions on population biology of pathogens
Quan Lu
Department of Environmental Health, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Asthma, Diabetes, Adrenergic receptor signaling, Gene-environment interaction, Metal toxicants, RNAi screen, Non-coding RNAs
Research: Developing and applying genomewide RNAi tools to study receptor signaling and gene environment interactions.
William Mair (he/his)
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Aging, Cancer, Metabolic Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease
Research: Molecular pathways underpinning the aging process.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Brendan Manning
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Cancer, Genetic Tumor Syndromes, Type-2 Diabetes, Obesity, Aging
Research: Signaling pathways underlying tumorigenesis and metabolic diseases.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Zachary Nagel (he/his)
Department of Environmental Health
Diseases: Cancer
Research: How DNA repair affects cancer therapy efficacy and the risk of diseases associated with DNA damage.
Daniel Neafsey (he/his)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Malaria
Research: Population, evolutionary, and functional genomics of malaria parasites and mosquito vectors.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Jin-Ah Park (she/her)
Department of Environmental Health
Diseases: Asthma and COPD
Research: Identification and characterization of biochemical and physical abnormalities of airway epithelial cells in asthma, particularly unjamming and release of extracellular vesicles.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
Eric Rubin (he/his)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Tuberculosis
Research: Virulence factors of mycobacteria; acquisition of virulence determinants of Vibrio cholerae; generalized transposon mutagenesis systems for bacteria.
Pardis Sabeti
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: Infection, Inflammatory Diseases, Parasitic Diseases
Research: Creating comprehensive approaches for detecting, containing, and treating deadly infectious diseases.
Frank Sacks
Department of Nutrition
Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease, Hyperlipidemia, Hypertension
Research: Human lipoprotein metabolism, biochemical epidemiology involving lipoproteins and fatty acids and clinical trials in cardiovascular disease.
Kristopher Sarosiek
Department of Environmental Health
Diseases: Cancer, Environmental Exposures, Aging
Research: Regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis) in health and disease.
Jean Schaffer (she/her)
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease
Research: Mechanisms through which metabolic stress leads to cell dysfunction and cell death.
Roger Shapiro
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: HIV
Research: Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) and the reduction of morbidity and mortality among infants born to HIV-infected women
Joseph Sodroski
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Diseases: HIV/AIDS
Research: Human immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoproteins; HIV-1 vaccine development.
Jessalyn Ubellacker (she/her)
Department of Molecular Metabolism
Diseases: Cancer, Metabolic diseases
Research: Targeting novel lipidomic dependencies of cancer cells to prevent metastasis
Dyann Wirth (she/her)
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Faculty Chair, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Diseases: Malaria
Research: Molecular genetic analysis of gene expression, malaria parasites.
Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER
