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W. Evan Johnson, PhD – Director, Center for Data Science; Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Medicine

Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Center for Data Science at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. The Johnson Lab has


Priyadarshini (Priya) Kachroo, PhD – Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Health Professions; Center for Immunity & Inflammation

Assistant Professor

Dr. Priyadarshini Kachroo received her Ph.D. in Natural Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany (2016). As a postdoctoral fellow and Instructor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard


So-Youn Kim, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Center for Cell Signaling; Department of OBGYN & Reproductive Health

Associate Professor

Dr. So-Youn Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular


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

Associate Professor

Dr. Yosuke Kumamoto, Associate Professor (Tenured) 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