Chaim O. Jacob
Associate Professor of Medicine (Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases), Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine
Contact at: (323) 442-1822 or jacob@hsc.usc.edu
Expertise:
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (chronic
inflammatory autoimmune disease
of connective tissue, affecting the skin
and various internal organs)
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in
children
- Linkage and Candidate gene studies in
families with Systemic Lupus
Erythematosus
- Candidate gene studies in Insulin-
Dependent Diabetes mellitus in
hispanics
- Molecular characterization of tumor
necrosis factor in lupus mouse models
- Studies of molecular mechanisms of
autoimmuity using knock-out mice
- human molecular genetics
- molecular medicine
- immunology
- autoimmunity
Foreign Languages:
Hungarian and Hebrew
More:
Biographical information can be found at:
http://keck.usc.edu/profiles?facid=506
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