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Hyung Jin Ahn, PhD – Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Assistant Professor

Increasing evidence suggests that cerebrovascular dysfunction is one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD patients suffer from cerebral microinfarcts and a damaged cerebral vasculature, and a majority


Eddy Arnold, PhD – Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine

Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor


Gaetan Barbet, PhD – Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Child Health Institute of New Jersey

Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator

The Barbet laboratory studies the biology of mononuclear phagocytes (MPs) such as monocytes, dendritic cells and macrophages. At the intracellular level, the laboratory is interested in the signaling cascades regulated


Kathleen Beebe, MD – Department of Orthopaedics, Division of Musculoskeletal Oncology, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Associate Professor

Dr. Kathleen Beebe is a graduate of Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. After completing an internship and orthopaedic residency at University Hospital in Newark, NJ she completed a


Alex Bekker, MD, PhD – Department of Anesthesiology; Center for Immunity & Inflammation, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Professor and Chair

Dr Bekker is an internationally recognized expert in neuroanesthesia and is frequently invited to speak at Grand Rounds and Scientific Panels. Dr. Bekker has been active in research for many


Vivian Bellofatto, PhD – Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Professor and Interim Chair

I grew up in Montclair NJ, received my BS from Douglass College/Rutgers University, and completed a senior thesis under the wonderful mentorship of Dr. Evelyn Witkin. After a year working


Purnima Bhanot, PhD – Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Associate Professor

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Raymond Birge, PhD – Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Professor and Vice Chair

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Martin J. Blaser, MD – Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine

Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine RBHS, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

My lab has been studying gastrointestinal biology since 1979, gastric colonization since 1986, GI tract cancers since 1990, and the human microbiome since 2002. We conducted studies linking H. pylori


Jeffrey M. Boyd, PhD – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Associate Professor

The Boyd lab is interested in understanding the mechanisms by which the mammalian pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus survives in infection settings, as well as discovering new methodologies and technologies to