Laura Herring, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Laura Herring is the Director of the UNC Proteomics Core Facility which provides mass spectrometry-based proteomics services for the analysis of proteins from tissues, cells or other biological sample … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Genetics, Immunology, Metabolism, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanomedicine, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Plant Biology, Quantitative Biology, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine, Virology |
Ilona Jaspers, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My lab examines how inhaled agents modify respiratory immune responses using a number of translational research models. My group is particularly interested in how inhaled agents, such as ambient air p … Read more |
Guochun Jiang, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Jiang Lab, situated within the UNC HIV Cure Center and BCBP, is dedicated to unraveling the molecular mechanisms governing stable HIV reservoirs within the immune cells of people with HIV ( … Read more |
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 |
Eben Lichtman, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Eben Lichtman, MD is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, as well as an associate member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a board-certified hematologist and … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Hematology, Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Trials, Hematology, Immunology, Microbiology |
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 |
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 |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Virology |
Marianne Muhlebach, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am trained as a pediatric pulmonologist and have interests in bacteriology of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. This includes microbiome and anaerobic bacteria found in lungs of people with CF. Spe … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Marsico Lung Institute, Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Metabolism, Microbiology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Pulmonary |
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 |
Catherine O’Connell, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Natural immunity to chlamydial genital tract infection in women Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) continues to pose great risk to the reproductive health of women worldwide. Its potentially devastatin … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology, Pediatrics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Systems Biology |










