Rebekah Layton, PhD, CMC, PCC |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Other UNC Center and/or Department Affiliation: UNC School of Education Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: Biomedical workforce development Dr. Layton is an education researcher whose re … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Graduate Education, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Education Research, Immunology, Microbiology |
Helen Lazear, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Flavivirus pathogenesis -Immune mechanisms that control Zika virus and other congenital infections -Zika virus infection in the female reproductive tract -Host genetic determinants of neuroinvasive fl … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Global Health, Immunology, Microbiology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Virology, Women's Health |
Stan Lemon, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I have a longstanding interest in the mechanisms by which hepatotropic positive-strand RNA viruses replicate in the liver and cause diseases ranging from acute inflammatory hepatitis to cancer. My lab … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Infectious Diseases, Center for GI Biology and Disease (CGIBD), Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology, Virology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cell Biology, Immunology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Virology |
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria: Efforts to eliminate malaria altogether hinge on the ability to prevent transmission. We showed that single dose primaquine added to ACT is effective in bloc … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Trials, Evolutionary Biology, Global Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology |
Zhi Liu, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Immunopathogenesis of skin autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for Aging & Health, Dermatology, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology, Oral Biology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Cancer Biology, Drug Discovery, Immunology |
David M. Margolis, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research group has a long history of translational HIV research: investigating basic molecular, virological, and immunological phenomenon, and leveraging insights to develop new intervention … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
Brian C. Miller, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Miller lab is interested in understanding how tumors evade the immune response and how we can better activate the immune system to fight cancer. We have a particular focus on a type of immu … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Oncology, Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Immunology |
Justin Milner, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab focuses on developing new and exciting approaches for enhancing the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. We utilize cutting-edge genomics, bioengineering, computational, and immunologica … Read more |
| Mentors: | Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Immunology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Translational Medicine, Virology |
Jason Mock, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research program is focused on the immunological processes and molecular mechanisms underlying lung repair and resolution following acute lung injury. Major areas of interests include: Studies inv … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine (DOM), Marsico Lung Institute, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Trials, Immunology, Pulmonary, Translational Medicine |
Cary Moody, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The work in my laboratory focuses on the molecular biology of human papillomaviruses (HPV), small DNA viruses that exhibit epithelial tropism. Certain types of HPV are considered the causative agents … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Virology |
Nat Moorman, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: How does a virus gain control over the host cell? My laboratory is interested in answering this question at the molecular level. By combining molecular biology and virology with new technologies (e.g. … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Virology |
Robert Nicholas, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I mostly focus on mechanisms of resistance in the pathogenic organism, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. At UNC, I have built a research group that has defined at the molecular level the mechanisms of chromosoma … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Drug Discovery, Immunology, Metabolism, Microbiology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Structural Biology |








