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Our leading-edge research focuses on translational laboratory programs in HIV immunology and virology, host pathogen interaction, microbiome studies and tumor immunology.
A recent study by Jeffrey Schneider, PhD and researchers at Rush University and Northwestern University. Read more…
The results of the study were recently published in Cell Reports. You can learn more about the study here.
Dr. Lena Al-Harthi was quoted in this Washington Post article. Read more… [PDF]
HIV can reside in brain cells, and the AIDS-causing virus can spread from the brain to the body, even if it’s been suppressed by antiretroviral therapy, according to a study by Lena Al-Harthi, PhD, chairperson of the Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity and an immunology expert. Read more…
Dr. Al-Harthi articles in the press and media coverage highlight her recent work. Read more…
Dr. Lena Al-Harthi was interviewed by CNN.
Kudos to one of our own, Edward Barker, PhD, for publishing an opinion piece on preventing bat viruses from infecting the human population! As you recall, Dr. Barker was selected to the Public Voices fellow program through the OpEd project championed by the President’s Office.
Bats transmitted the three coronaviruses causing epidemics/pandemics in the last decade (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-COV2). Targetting vaccinating them against their own viruses could stop transmission the human population! Read more…
A recent study by Jeffrey Schneider, PhD and researchers at Rush University and Northwestern University. Read more…
The results of the study were recently published in Cell Reports. You can learn more about the study here.
Dr. Lena Al-Harthi was quoted in this Washington Post article. Read more… [PDF]
HIV can reside in brain cells, and the AIDS-causing virus can spread from the brain to the body, even if it’s been suppressed by antiretroviral therapy, according to a study by Lena Al-Harthi, PhD, chairperson of the Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity and an immunology expert. Read more…
Dr. Al-Harthi articles in the press and media coverage highlight her recent work. Read more…
Dr. Lena Al-Harthi was interviewed by CNN.
Kudos to one of our own, Edward Barker, PhD, for publishing an opinion piece on preventing bat viruses from infecting the human population! As you recall, Dr. Barker was selected to the Public Voices fellow program through the OpEd project championed by the President’s Office.
Bats transmitted the three coronaviruses causing epidemics/pandemics in the last decade (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-COV2). Targetting vaccinating them against their own viruses could stop transmission the human population! Read more…
Giselle Sandi, PhD has been selected by Great Minds in STEM to receive the 2019 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement award for education. This prestigious award honors Giselle’s life-long commitment to promote STEM education for under-represented minority groups. Her efforts have had a sustained regional and national impact for STEM education at all levels from elementary to higher level education. She will receive this prestigious award at the upcoming Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC).