Chaim O. Jacob

Associate Professor of Medicine (Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases), Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine

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

Languages

  • Hungarian
  • Hebrew

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