Föreläsningar och seminarier Seminarium: Professor Gill Diamond
Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Treat and Prevent Infectious Diseases.
Professor Diamond kommer att presentera de senaste resultaten där D-vitamin används för att stärka det medfödda immunförsvaret mot infektioner, samt där antimikrobiella peptidmimetika används för att behandla flera olika typer av mikrobiella infektioner.
Talare
Professor Gill Diamond
University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Titel
Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Treat and Prevent Infectious Diseases.
Värd
Peter Bergman, Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine.
Gill Diamond - short biography
A native of Philadelphia, PA, he received his BA in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and his PhD in Genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then returned to Philadelphia to do postdoctoral research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he began to work on antimicrobial peptides. He was a faculty member at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now part of Rutgers University) from 1993-2013, and the University of Florida from 2013-2019. Since then, he has been a professor in the Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, where he studies innate immunity and the development of novel antimicrobial agents.