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Theresa Chang, PhD – Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Public Health Research Institute

Professor

The Chang lab studies the mechanisms of mucosal determinants and hormones modulating viral infection, cancer and disease outcomes. Faculty Profile Publications

Lea Ann Chen, MD – Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Assistant Professor and Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Translational Research

The Chen laboratory is interested in how the gut microbiome impacts human health and disease, with a particular focus on inflammatory bowel disease and C. difficile infections. Our team leverages

Shin-heng Chiou, PhD – Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Assistant Professor

Uncovering therapeutic TCRs in solid cancer In contrast to CAR-T cell therapy, T cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cell therapy has shown tremendous efficacy in treating solid cancer patients with advanced

Roberto Colangeli, PhD – Department of Medicine, Center for Emerging Pathogens

Assistant Professor

Dr. Colangeli received a Ph.D. in Microbiology and one in Infectious Diseases from La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. He worked in the Microbiology Department at the Italian National Institute

Lori Covey, PhD – Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience

Professor and Dean of Life Sciences, SAS

Faculty Profile Publications

Lisa Dever, MD, MS – Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Associate Professor, Vice Chair, and Director of Fellowship Program

Lisa L. Dever, MD is Professor of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and attending physician at University Hospital in Newark. She received her medical degree from the University

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, PhD – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS; Department of Anthropology, SAS

Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health, Director, NJ Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH)

Her current lab studies the impacts of modern practices on the microbiome and strategies for restoration, working on gradients of urbanization globally, with synergistic collaborations. Her current interest on lifestyles

Richard H. Ebright, PhD – Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University

Board of Governors Professor, Laboratory Director, Waksman Institute

Our lab seeks to understand structures, mechanisms, and regulation of bacterial transcription complexes and to identify, characterize, and develop small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial transcription for application as antituberculosis agents and

Huizhou Fan, PhD – Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Associate Professor

Faculty Profile Publications

Zhaohui Feng, MD, PhD – Department of Radiation Oncology, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Professor

Tumor suppressor p53 plays a key role in tumor suppression. To ensure the proper levels and functions of p53 in tumor suppression, p53 is tightly regulated by different mechanisms in