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Yuri Bushkin, PhD – Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers Health

Professor

The central focus of my research is cellular immunology and regulation pathways, particularly the mechanisms of antigen presentation to T cells through MHC class I proteins. We extended this investigation


Jian Cao, PhD – Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Assistant Professor

Interested in how hepatitis B virus causes hepatocellular carcinoma. 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 K. Denzin, PhD – Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group

Associate Professor

Dr. Lisa Denzin is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Child Health Institute of NJ, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She received a BS degree in Medical Microbiology


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