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Academic Appointments Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Clinical Focus- Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
Research InterestMy laboratory studies the strategies pathogens utilize to colonize and subvert the epithelial barrier. We have focused on the epithelial junctions as a target for bacterial pathogens, since the cell-cell junctions serve as both a barrier to infection and also a major control site for epithelial function. In particular, we are interested in how the gastric pathogen Helicobater pylori may cause cancer by interfering with cell signaling at the epithelial junctions. We are also studying how variou..
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Academic Appointments Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Clinical Focus- Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
Research InterestOur laboratory investigates the pathogenesis of varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection, focusing on the functional roles of particular viral gene products in pathogenesis and virus-cell interactions in differentiated human cells in humans and in Scid-hu mouse models of VZV cell tropisms in vivo, and the immunobiology of VZV infections.
Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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