Profiles in "Biomedicine" Expertise Area

  • Dr. Kingsbury is a Teaching Professor in Anatomy and Physiology, and Associate Dean. He also serves as the director of the STEM Teaching Global Intensive Experience in Costa Rica.
  • Efrem Lim studies the role of the virome in human health and disease. His expertise is in the microbiome in mother-infant health and SARS-CoV-2.
  • Plaisier works to answer open questions about human diseases by turning large-scale patient data into integrative models that can be used to describe novel disease biology or discover drug targets.
  • Silvie Huijben is an evolutionary biologist who studies the evolutionary ecology of resistant organisms. Her aim is to optimize treatment strategies that minimize resistance evolution, with a focus on malaria.