Robert Thompson, M.S.

Biologist

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Education:

MS., 1995, John Hopkins University

Languages Spoken: Spanish

Biography

I am studying the initial contact of Brugia malayi whole worm antigen preps with human lymphatic endothelial cells and examining the effects of this contact on signalling molecules on these cells to understand what initial contacts do that make the changes that end up resulting in inflammation and pathology in lymphatic filariasis.