Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Disease: Infection Research: Evaluating host-pathogen and immune responses to Vibrio cholerae (the cause of cholera) and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Paratyphi A (the cause of typhoid/paratyphoid fever).
Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Disease: Malaria Research: our laboratory investigates the molecular pathogenesis of infection by the parasites that cause human malaria.
Associate Professor in the 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.
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.
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.
Diseases: SARS-CoV-2 Research: Utilizing viral immunology expertise to propel novel vaccine development for pandemic preparedness.
Diseases: Diabetes, Cancer and Seizure Disorders Research: Molecular determinants and functional consequences of metabolic fuel choice and flexibility in health and disease.
Diseases: Hormonal Cancers – Endometrial, Breast and Ovarian Research: Understand mechanisms of carcinogenesis and to establish association with disease for future prevention.
Diseases: Malaria Research: Molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of human malaria.
Diseases: Tuberculosis Research: Secretion and pathogenesis in M. tuberculosis.
