Research Overview:
This lab focuses on how stress, age, gender, and hormones affect immunity, inflammation, and health; also the feasibility of biomarkers for predicting health outcomes.
Research Interests:
- Stress, inflammation, cognitive aging/decline, and dementia
- Hormonal regulation of dermal and mucosal tissue repair
- Inflammatory biomarkers and stress as predictors of preterm birth
- Inflammation and mental health (depression, bipolar disorder)
- Salivary diagnostics