Diseases: Colon Cancer, Inflammatory bowel diseases Research: Microbiota and immune function in health and disease states.
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Smita Gopinath
Diseases: Genital Herpes Research: The impact of the host microbiome on immune responses to infectious pathogens.
Yonatan Grad
Diseases: Gonorrhea, Dengue virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Staphylococcus aureus Research: How pathogens evolve and spread through populations using a combination and experimental methods.
Adam Haber
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
Diseases: Diabetes, Insulin resistance, Obesity, Atherosclerosis Research: Regulatory pathways which control energy metabolism.
Sheng (Tony) Hui
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)
Curtis Huttenhower
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
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.
C. Ronald Kahn
Diseases: Diabetes and Obesity Research: Insulin signal transduction and mechanisms of altered signaling in diabetes and metabolic disease.
Nora Kory
Diseases: Cancer, Metabolic Diseases, Aging Research: Role of organelles and metabolic compartmentalization in physiology and disease.