Myles Research Group

Ian A. Myles, M.D., M.P.H.

Principal Investigator, Epithelial Therapeutics Unit
Chief Medical Research Officer, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

Contact: ian.myles@nih.gov

Specialty(s): Allergy and Immunology, Internal Medicine
Provides direct clinical care to patients at NIH Clinical Center

Education:

B.S., 2001, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
M.D., 2005, University of Colorado, Boulder CO
M.P.H., 2016, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Dr. Myles was born and raised in Colorado. He graduated with a B.S. in biology from Colorado State University in 2001 and then obtained an M.D. from the University of Colorado in 2005. He completed an internal medicine residency at The Ohio State University prior to beginning fellowship training in allergy and clinical immunology at NIH.

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Prem Prashant Chaudhary, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Biotechnology

Languages Spoken: Hindi, Punjabi

I am a trained molecular biologist and microbiologist with experience in all kinds of microbiome data analysis. My current research focuses on studying how the environmental factors or contaminants affects the skin microbiome and shifts its balance towards diseased condition with a special focus on Atopic dermatitis.

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Portia Gough, Ph.D.

Chief, Host Microbe Symbiosis Unit

Independent Research Scholar

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Education:

Ph.D., 2017, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Dr. Gough began her graduate studies at the University of Chicago in 2010, joining the lab of Drs. Olaf Schneewind and Dominique Missiakas, where her research focused on the development of an immunocompromised model of infection with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) for the purpose of vaccine development. She also studied the function of surface adhesins of S. aureus. In 2013, Dr. Gough joined the Graduate Partnership Program (GPP) with an independent partnership between the University of Chicago and NIAID.

While in the GPP, she completed her thesis work on the responses of human neutrophils to S. aureus under the mentorship of Dr. Sandip Datta. After completing her Ph.D. in microbiology in 2017, she began postdoctoral training at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, where she studied pathogen reduction technologies for blood transfusion units. In 2020, Dr. Gough returned to NIAID to undergo further postdoctoral training with Dr. Ian Myles in the Epithelial Therapeutics Unit, where she began her mechanistic studies of R. mucosa. Dr. Gough received an Independent Research Scholar award in 2022 and formed her own research group to expand her studies of R. mucosa.

Ashleigh Sun, R.N., M.S.N.

Clinical Programs Manager

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I coordinate all clinical projects with the lab and am interested in assuring clinical research listens to the patients concerns when developing their protocols.

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