People

Marc Lipsitch

Affiliate - Professor in the Department of Epidemiology

(he/his)

mlipsitc@hsph.harvard.edu

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

Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology

Department of Environmental Health

qlu@hsph.harvard.edu

Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER

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

Associate Professor Department of Molecular Metabolism

(he/his)

wmair@hsph.harvard.edu

Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER

Diseases: Aging, Cancer, Metabolic Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease Research: Molecular pathways underpinning the aging process.

Brendan Manning

Professor of Molecular Metabolism and Acting Chair

Department of Molecular Metabolism

bmanning@hsph.harvard.edu

Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER

Diseases: Cancer, Genetic Tumor Syndromes, Type-2 Diabetes, Obesity, Aging Research: Signaling pathways underlying tumorigenesis and metabolic diseases.

Kari C. Nadeau

John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health

she/her

knadeau@hsph.harvard.edu

Disease: Asthma, severe allergies, and immune disorders Research: our laboratory investigates how environmental exposures affect immunity and disease, such as in asthma, severe allergies, and immune disorders.

Zachary Nagel

Associate Professor of Genomics and Cancer Biology Department of Environmental Health

(he/his)

znagel@hsph.harvard.edu

Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER

Diseases: Cancer Research: How DNA repair affects cancer therapy efficacy and the risk of diseases associated with DNA damage.

Daniel Neafsey

Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

(he/his)

neafsey@hsph.harvard.edu

Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER

Diseases: Malaria Research: Population, evolutionary, and functional genomics of malaria parasites and mosquito vectors.

Jin-Ah Park

Associate Professor of Airway Biology, Department Environmental Health

(she/her)

jpark@hsph.harvard.edu

Completed Mentorship Training: CIMER

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.

Eric Rubin

Adjunct Professor Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

(he/his)

erubin@hsph.harvard.edu

Diseases: Tuberculosis Research: Virulence factors of mycobacteria; acquisition of virulence determinants of Vibrio cholerae; generalized transposon mutagenesis systems for bacteria.

Pardis Sabeti

Professor Departmnt of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

pardis@broadinstitute.org

Diseases: Infection, Inflammatory Diseases, Parasitic Diseases Research: Creating comprehensive approaches for detecting, containing, and treating deadly infectious diseases.