Dr. Marrazzo is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, where she oversees a $6.3 billion budget that supports research to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.  Prior to taking that position in 2023, she was the … Read more

Dr. Garden’s Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research includes studies of the regulation of the inflammatory response in AD, as well as pathogenic molecular cascades contributing to neuronal degeneration in AD. She aims to collaborate with other researchers in order to translate her laboratory findings into the setting of research using human tissues, human stem cells, human … Read more

Dr. Rumey Ishizawar is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Program Director for the Adult Rheumatology Fellowship at UNC. She completed her MSTP training at the University of Virginia where her doctoral research was focused on Breast Cancer Cell Signaling through EGF Receptor Family members before pursuing Internal Medicine Residency and a Rheumatology Fellowship at … Read more

Current Positions Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD h.c. mult. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has also served as a Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and adj. Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is also Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism … Read more

Janet Rubin MD, is a Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill and an endocrinologist who specializes in treating patients with metabolic disorders of bone. Dr. Rubin’s research aims to understand molecular mechanisms by which physical forces regulate … Read more