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)
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.
Diseases: Cancer, Metabolic Diseases, Aging Research: Role of organelles and metabolic compartmentalization in physiology and disease.
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.
Diseases: Aging, Cancer, Metabolic Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease Research: Molecular pathways underpinning the aging process.
Diseases: Cancer, Genetic Tumor Syndromes, Type-2 Diabetes, Obesity, Aging Research: Signaling pathways underlying tumorigenesis and metabolic diseases.
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.
Diseases: Cancer Research: How DNA repair affects cancer therapy efficacy and the risk of diseases associated with DNA damage.
Diseases: Malaria Research: Population, evolutionary, and functional genomics of malaria parasites and mosquito vectors.
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.
