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Researchers
Below are researchers funded by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation who are working in immunity and inflammation.
Meghan Koch, PhD
Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Current Grantee
The Koch lab studies maternal-fetal interactions, focusing on immunity, metabolism and the microbiota. They are working to identify novel pathways through which maternal-offspring interactions regulate neonatal health.
Alison Kohan, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Former Grantee
The Kohan lab focuses on the role of lipoproteins in regulating cellular metabolism in the immune system and the intestine, and the consequences for human disease.
Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD
Associate Member, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Current Grantee
The Lacy-Hulbert lab works to understand how different aspects of the immune system cooperate to identify and combat potentially infectious organisms while preventing immune attack against innocuous microbes or the body’s own self.
Amy Lightner, MD
Professor, Scripps Research, Former Grantee
Dr. Lightner specializes in colon and rectal surgery. She is advancing research on regenerative cellular and acellular based therapeutic approaches to offer her Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients non-surgical alternatives.
Carrie Lucas, PhD
Associate Professor, Yale University, Former Grantee
The Lucas lab strives to discover mechanisms of disease driving rare immune disorders, focusing on the genetic, cellular and biochemical underpinnings that can illuminate fundamental biology and broadly inform diagnoses and treatments.
Susan Lynch, PhD
Professor; University of California, San Francisco; Former Grantee
The Lynch lab focuses primarily on the human microbiota in both respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts, environmental microbial exposures that shape its development and its role in chronic inflammatory diseases.
