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Yosuke Kumamoto, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Assistant Professor

Dr. Yosuke Kumamoto, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Center for Immunity Inflammation and the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, joined in June 2017, and he studies the role


Alexander Lemenze, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Assistant Professor

The Molecular and Genomics Informatics Core (MaGIC) provides high-throughput computational services and resources to internal and external laboratories. Our core staff provides pre-project consultations, fee-for-service workflows, and longitudinal collaborative assistance


Dongfang Liu, MD, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Pathology, Immunity and Laboratory Medicine

Associate Professor

Dr. Dongfang Liu’s research is primarily focused on the immunobiology of NK and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cells. Specifically, Dr. Liu’s research includes studies of the cell biology of immunoreceptors,


Keri Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Surgery

Assistant Professor

Keri E. Lunsford MD, PhD, FACS is the Director of Translational and Surgical Science for the Department of Surgery, a liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon on faculty at Rutgers New


Veronika Miskolci, PhD – Center for Cell Signaling; Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Assistant Professor

We are broadly interested in how the innate immune response is regulated during inflammation and sterile injuries. Our current focus is elucidating the metabolic regulation of macrophage function during tissue


Matthew Neiditch, PhD – Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Professor

The Neiditch lab uses diverse methods including biochemical, genetic, computational, and biophysical (mainly X-ray crystallographic and cryo-EM) techniques to study fundamentally important and broadly conserved cellular processes in bacteria. The


Alexandros (Alex) Papachristodoulou, MSc, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Center for Cell Signaling; Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Assistant Professor

Dr. Alex Papachristodoulou is a translational cancer biologist, focusing on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of prostate carcinogenesis. He obtained his MSc degree in Cancer Therapeutics at the Barts Cancer


Dane Parker, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Associate Professor

The Parker lab investigates host-pathogen interactions in the context of bacterial infection. We currently work with the bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, a major human pathogen responsible for a broad range of


Vasileios Petrou, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Assistant Professor and Chancellor Scholar

The Petrou Lab is aiming to characterize the structure and function of membrane proteins using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and biophysical/biochemical techniques, with a focus on: i) Bacterial membrane enzymes


Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD – Center for Virus-Host Innate Immunity; Department of Medicine

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate Immunity

The Rajsbaum lab studies Innate immune responses, which are essential to protect host cells against pathogens. Upon infection, viruses are recognized by the host cell triggering signaling pathways leading to