Faculty
Name | Title | Overview |
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Monica Mugnier | Associate Professor | Monica Mugnier, PhD, studies how African trypanosomes, which cause African sleeping sickness, evade the immune system. |
Douglas Norris | Professor | |
Han-Sol Park | Senior Research Associate | |
Edward Pearce | Professor | |
Andrew Pekosz | Professor | Andy Pekosz, PhD, investigates the replication and disease potential of respiratory viruses including influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging viruses. |
Sean Prigge | Professor | Sean Prigge, PhD, is a structural biologist and parasitologist who studies essential nutrients and metabolic pathways in malaria parasites. |
Krithika Rajaram | Assistant Scientist | Krithika Rajaram, PhD, builds and implements genetic tools to study the biology of a unique organelle in human malaria parasites called the apicoplast. |
Julia Romano | Assistant Scientist | |
Jaiprasath Sachithanandham | Research Associate | |
Alan Scott | Professor | Alan Scott, PhD, MS, studies innate immunity with an emphasis on the roles of macrophages in the pathogenesis of lung diseases caused by parasite and environmental exposures. |
Clive Shiff | Professor - Emeritus | |
Photini Sinnis | Professor | |
Prakash Srinivasan | Assistant Professor | Prakash Srinivasan, PhD, studies how malaria parasites enter host cells and applies findings to develop vaccines that will prevent them from causing disease. |
Jotham Suez | Assistant Professor | Jotham Suez, PhD, MSc, studies the microbiome and the mechanisms through which symbiotic bacteria, viruses, and fungi shape the health of their human host. |
David Sullivan | Professor | |
Steven Sullivan | Associate Scientist | |
Chinmay Tikhe | Research Associate | |
Abhai Tripathi | Associate Research Professor | |
Maggie Wear | Assistant Scientist | Maggie Wear, PhD, MS, studies fungal polysaccharides and catalytic antibodies in the lab and teaches critical thinking and social justice in science. |
Hila Winer Yanai | Research Associate |