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Immunity & Disease Prevention

Research Unit

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles B Stephensen

Research Leader

 

 

 

 

Immunity & Disease Prevention Research Unit

 

 

Mission:  

The Unit's mission is to determine how selected nutrients and other dietary factors with immune-regulatory and anti-oxidant properties modulate immune function and prevent or impede pathogenic inflammation.   Scientists in the Unit currently focus on vitamins A and D, carotenoids, fatty acids, selenium and other specific phytonutrients (e.g., quercetin and resveratrol).   Research focuses on the anti-inflammatory activities of such compounds because inflammation is a key promoter of many chronic diseases.

 

Immunity & Disease Prevention Research Unit

 

 

 

 

Research Scientists:

••        Charles Stephensen, Ph.D.

 - Research Leader Roles of vitamins A and D in immune function.

 

••        Dan Hwang, Ph.D.

 - Dietary modulation of inflammation and chronic diseases mediated by pattern recognition receptors of the innate immune system.

••         Darshan Kelley, Ph.D.

 - Regulation of immune and inflammatory responses by dietary fatty acids. 

 

 

 

 

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