Charles Chiu, MD, PhD

Charles Chiu, M.D./Ph.D. is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center (VDDC), and Associate Director of the UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, He is a board-certified consulting infectious diseases physician at UCSF, and practices in both infectious […]

Magda Feres, PhD

Dr. Magda Feres, an internationally-recognized scholar who served as dean for Dental Research and Graduate Education and chair of the advanced Graduate Program in Dentistry at Guarulhos University in Brazil, has been named to lead Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s (HSDM) Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity (OMII). Feres is an alumna of HSDM […]

Yulong Zhang, PhD

Yulong Zhang, PhD is an Assistant Research Professor at the American Dental Association Forsyth Institute (AFI). His work advances research at the intersection of oral health and broader biomedical science.

Elise Courtois, PhD

Since 2023, Dr. Courtois is leading the Single cell Biology Lab as Director, continuing its mission to provide the scientific research community access to state-of-the-art single cell and spatial multiomics technologies to interrogate cells individually, in their spatial context, or within a functional system.

Hatice Hastruck, DDS, PhD

Hatice Hasturk, DDS, PhD is the Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at the Forsyth Institute. A dentist and periodontist, she investigates how oral diseases affect systemic health. Hatice’s research focuses on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other conditions linked to the inflammatory pathways of periodontal disease.