Center for Oral Infectious Diseases

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.

Infectious Diseases is located in Room C636 in the Medical Science Building.

973-972-7053

Faculty

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

Dr. Gill Diamond, Associate Professor

Dr. Scott Kachlany, Assistant Professor

Dr. Daniel Kadouri, Assistant Professor

Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan, Assistant Professor

Dr. Chinnaswamy Kasinathan, Associate Professor

Dr. Kenneth Markowitz, Assistant Professor

Dr. Narayanan Ramasubbu, Associate Professor

Dr. Helen Schreiner, Assistant Professor

Dr. Amalia Slomiany, Professor

Dr. Bronislaw Slomiany, Professor

Dr. Vincent K. Tsiagbe, Associate Professor

Dr. Kabilan Velliyagounder, Assistant Professor