Our Lab.
Using an integrative systems biology, molecular biology and bioinformatics approach, the lab is elucidating the interplay and contribution of genetics, miRs and microbiome in obesity, kidney, lung and cardiovascular disease. We are using an interdisciplinary approach to analyze primary human samples in disease and health to understand unique signatures associated with different human conditions so we may be able to better prevent and treat disease.
Our collaborators around the country and world provide expertise and patient biological samples to help increase diversity and chances to address health disparities, enabling personalized health.
Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Approximately 12 million individuals in the US have asthma. Recent evidence points towards the influence of microbial exposure as risk fact...
Organ transplantation is last line treatment for organ failure. Organ transplantation began in the 1960’s but was limited to transplant between twins due to immunologic rejection. The advent of i...
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease that attacks multiple organs, particularly the lungs and lymph nodes, and disproportionately affects African Americans. Pulmonary fibrosis is the number-one ...
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