Queen Lane Campus
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Research
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Carol Artlett
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Role of 3-deoxyglucosone in mediating inflammation in diabetes and autoimmunity and the role of the inflammasome in systemic sclerosis.
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Lawrence W. Bergman
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Malarial invasion mechanisms and cellular gene expression patterns during infection.
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Elizabeth Blankenhorn
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Genetic foundations for inherited susceptibility to autoimmune diseases, including diabetes, scleroderma and multiple sclerosis. Impact of genetics on wound healing and susceptibility to viral infection.
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Alina Boesteanu
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Lung immunopathology induced by influenza virus infection. Identification of therapeutic targets for reducing viral load and lung inflammation.
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James Burns
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Development of protective immunity against blood-stage malaria induced by immunization with defined subunit vaccines.
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Thomas Edlind
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Molecular mechanisms of antifungal action, resistance, and toxicity.
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Santosh Katiyar
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Molecular mechanisms of antifungal resistance.
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Peter Katsikis
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Roles of cytokines, T cells, and apoptosis in autoimmunity and anti-viral immune responses.
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Sandhya Kortagere
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Development and application of computational tools in drug discovery.
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Kirsten Larson
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Course director of medical immunology and medical genetics, and development and implementation of both team-taught courses in our medical school curricula.
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Yvonne Mueller
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Function of virus-specific cytotoxic CD8+ T cells.
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Shira Ninio
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Intracellular bacterial pathogens, host-pathogen interaction, Legionella pneumophila pathogenesis
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Richard Rest
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Molecular and cellular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Bacillus anthracis.
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Donna Russo
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Director of the medical school curriculum, Interdisciplinary Foundations of Medicine, as well as department course director for Medical Microbiology.
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Sandra Urdaneta-Hartmann
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Microbicide development, mother-to-child-transmission of HIV-1 through breast milk, sexually transmitted infections, women's health.
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Akhil Vaidya
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Understanding basic molecular functioning of malaria parasites with a view to develop new antimalarial drugs.
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Center City Campus
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Faculty
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Research
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Michael Bouchard
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Liver cancer, hepatocyte transformation, calcium signaling, apoptosis, cell proliferation, alcohol, novel liver models (secondary appointment).
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Richard Huneke
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Utilization and overview of animal models in biological research.
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Jeffrey Jacobson
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Infectious diseases, HIV, immunology (secondary appointment).
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Stephen Jennings
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Optimal protection from HSV-1 infection provided by interactions between innate and acquired immune responses.
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Suresh Joshi
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Surgical site infections, bacterial pathogenesis and novel antibacterial agents, biodefense (secondary appointment).
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Fred Krebs
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Microbicide development, HIV-1 transmission, HIV-1 immunopathogenesis and neurogenesis.
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Michelle Kutzler
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Translational research in vaccinology, immunology and infectious disease (secondary appointment).
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Julio Martín-García
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HIV-1 envelope-mediated fusion and entry, HIV neurotropism and neuropathogenesis.
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Olimpia Meucci
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NeuroAIDS (secondary appointment).
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Sonia Navas-Martín
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Molecular pathogenesis and evolution of RNA viruses. Animal models for viral infectious diseases.
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Michael Nonnemacher
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HIV-1, drugs of abuse, bone marrow, monocytes, transcription.
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Shendra Passic
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Microbicide development, HIV-1 transmission, HIV-1 immunopathogenesis and neuropathogenesis.
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Edward Schulman
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Allergies, asthma, interstitial lung diseases (secondary appointment).
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Laura Steel
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Development of RNAi-based therapies for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV-1.
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Brian Wigdahl
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Immunopathogenesis and neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 and HTLV-I infection, transcriptional regulation of retroviral expression, viral sequence diversity and correlations to disease, development of microbicidal agents.
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Doylestown Campus
Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research
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Faculty
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Research
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Timothy Block
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Molecular mechanisms of viral persistence and development of therapeutic strategies for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV).
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Jinhong Chang
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The study of microRNA on virus replication and development of small molecule antivirals.
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Maryann Comunale
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Use of glycoproteomics for the identification of early detection markers for liver cancer.
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Haitao Guo
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Molecular pathway of HBV cccDNA formation and cccDNA regulation by viral and cellular factors; Development of in vitro assay systems for discovery of novel antiviral drugs.
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Ju-Tao Guo
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Molecular mechanisms of HBV replication and regulation, innate immunity against virus infection, and discovery of antiviral and host innate immune modulatory agents.
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Pooja Jain
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Dendritic cells in autoimmune and neuroinflammatory disease.
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Zafar K. Khan
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Animal modeling of microbial infections and neuroinflammation.
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Xuanyong Lu
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Cellular susceptibility to hepatitis B (HBV) infection; developing strategies to control cancer cell growth through silencing of overexpressed apoptosis inhibitors.
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Anand Mehta
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Development of new hepatitis B (HBV) therapeutics; identification of early markers of liver cancer.
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Scott Millhouse
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The host-pathogen relationship and its importance to lytic and latent phases of the herpes virus life-cycle.
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Brad Nefsky
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Identify novel biomarkers for hepatocellular carcinoma and determine the cause and consequence of hyperfucosylation of serum glycoproteins in hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Pamela Norton
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Development of novel antiviral drugs for use against hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection; host cell defenses against HBV infection.
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Patrick Romano
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Developing novel reagents to detect biomarker glycoforms predicitive of liver disease.
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Ying-Hsiu Su
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Understanding interactions between herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and neurons during viral latency and reactivation; using nucleic acids in urine as diagnostic markers of cancer.
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Allegheny General Hospital
Allegheny-Singer Research Institute Center for Genomic Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA
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Faculty
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Research
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Farrel Joel Buchinsky
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Determining genetic susceptibility of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis.
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Garth D. Ehrlich
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Molecular pathogenesis of chronic infectious diseases.
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Fen Z. Hu
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Bacterial biofilm pathogenesis.
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Sandeep Kathju
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Gene regulation during scarless wound healing.
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James Christopher Post
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Role of biofilms in chronic human infections using otitis media as a model. Genetics of human performance, scarless wound healing.
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Fox Chase Cancer Center
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Faculty
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Research
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Glenn Rall
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Pathogenesis of neurotropic viral infections (secondary appointment).
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