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CENTER FOR ORAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dr. Daniel Fine, Director

973-972-7053

The Center for Oral Infectious Diseases is a modern, state-of-the-art basic research science facility whose faculty members investigate both host mediated and bacterially mediated factors that contribute to the cause of various oral diseases by biochemical, immunological and microbiological means. Areas under investigation include the virulence factors of A. actinomycetemcomitans, antibody response variations in localized juvenile periodontitis, the structural and functional domains of amylase, alcohol's effect on the glycobiology of mucous secretions, and the relation of salivary lipid to oral mucosal diseases, defensins and their role in disease, cytokines in disease, genetic risk markers of infectious, developmental and malignant diseases.

The Office of the Center for Oral Infectious Diseases is located in Room C636 in the Medical Science Building.

Faculty

Dr. Daniel H. Fine, Professor, Director, Chairman

Dr. Amalia Slomiany, Professor

Dr. Bronislaw Slomiany, Professor

Dr. Gill Diamond, Associate Professor

Dr. Chinnaswamy Kasinathan, Associate Professor

Dr. Narayanan Ramasubbu, Associate Professor

Dr. Scott Kachlany, Assistant Professor

Dr. Daniel Kadouri, Assistant Professor

Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan, Assistant Professor

Dr. Helen Schreiner, Assistant Professor

Staff:

Nataliya Balashova, Research Associate III
Debra Bereski, Coordinator
Chih-Hung Chou, Student Research Assistant
Karen Fairlie, Coordinator
Javier Ferrandiz, Program Coordinator
David Furgang, Research Teaching Specialist III
Nitin Gandhi, Research Assistant
Kabilan Velliya Gounder, Research Associate II
Yu Huang Ching, Principal Research Assistant
Feng Kuo-Shen, Principal Research Assistant
Yu Li, Research Teaching Specialist V
Carmen Logatto, Senior Management Assistant
Subagnana Manuel, Research Teaching Specialist V
Marie McKiernan, Research Teaching Specialist V
Cibele Nasri-Heir, Dental Assistant III
Chandran Ragunath, Research Associate II
Mirian Rosa, Secretary II
Gang Yue, Research Teaching Specialist III

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