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Roy Curtiss
 Professor emeritus of biology in Arts & Sciences

Has developed a Salmonella-based oral vaccine for livestock that can free animals from the virulent strain of Salmonella that causes food-poisoning in humans. His vaccine has received FDA approval for swine and poultry and is on the market. Curtiss also has obtained patents for the use of transgenic ...

Expertise: Salmonella, food poisoning, FDA, vaccine, genetic engineering, microbial, pathogen, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6819
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rcurtiss@wustl.edu

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John Morris
 Director and Principal Investigator, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Department of Neurology

John C. Morris, M.D., is the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Physical Therapy, and the Director of the Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Center for Aging, the Memory and Aging Project, and the Memory Diagnostic ...

Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, memory, aging, mild cognitive impairment

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Stanford Peng
 Assistant professor of internal medicine

Peng is working to uncover the molecular and genetic underpinnings of autoimmune conditions such as lupus, inflammatory bowel disease and some forms of arthritis. His lab was the first to find firm experimental evidence supporting a radical new theory for what immune cells are like when they're not ...

Expertise: lupus, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, T cell, B cell, immunology, autoimmunity

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Robert Schreiber
 Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology

Our research is aimed at elucidating the molecular cell biology of cytokine receptor signaling and in defining the effects of signaling dysfunction on tumor development. Towards these ends, we are studying the receptors for interferon-gamma (IFNg) and interleukin-10 (IL-10), two related yet distinct ...

Expertise: Tumor immunology; immune system/response

Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu

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Steven Teitelbaum
 Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology

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As the past president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology — the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States — Teitelbaum is a strong supporter for therapeutic cloning. Somatic cell nuclear transfer, as it is also known, could hold the potential ...

Expertise: Experimental biology, therapeutic cloning, osteoporosis, bone degeneration, bone disease

Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu

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H. James Wedner
 Professor of Medicine

Wedner is known for his clinical treatment and prevention of asthma and allergies.

Expertise: allergies, Asthma, mold allergy, cat dander, animal allergy, pet allergy, pet dander

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu

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