Faculty at NYU Langone’s Department of Microbiology engage in a wide variety of research endeavors centered around two thematic areas. The first area concerns the many and varied interactions between humans and pathogenic organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and multicellular parasites. We study the ways in which these organisms replicate within the host and ensure transmission to new hosts. We also examine how the host responds to microbial and parasitic infections through innate and acquired immunity. The second area concerns our understanding of the molecular processes that give rise to human disease, with a special focus on cancer, development of the skeleton, stem cell biology, and neurological diseases. To find a research collaborator, sort our faculty by research interest.

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