January 01, 2009

OraLee Branch, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, is a new recruit to our Department.  Dr. Branch has an expertise in malaria transmission dynamics and her studies focus on malaria caused by the parasites Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum. Prior to joining NYU in 2008, Dr. Branch earned her Ph.D. from Emory University, and was a research scientist at the NIH and an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. P'ng Loke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor is our newest recruit and will be joining our Department in Summer of 2009. Dr. Loke is a talented junior investigator studying regulation of immune responses by macrophages and helminths. He has received first class training in both parasitology and immunology, receiving his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, and completing immunology and host-pathogen interaction postdoctoral research with Dr. James Allison at the Cancer Research Laboratory at UC Berkeley and Dr. James McKerrow at UCSF, respectively.