11/03/2013
Efe Sezgin, Ph.D is our prestigious editor board member, he is a research associate at Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
Biography:
Dr. Efe Sezgin is a faculty member at the department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University focusing on the genetic architecture of interactions among energy driving metabolic pathways. Later, he completed his postdoctoral studies in a Genetic Epidemiology laboratory at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) specializing on designing and conducting studies to discover and map novel genetic variants, identify biological pathways, and elucidate potential genetic and environmental interactions involved in HIV-1 infection, progression to AIDS, therapy response, susceptibility to other opportunistic infections, and cancers among diverse patient cohorts.
Currently he is working on the genetics and epidemiology of cytomegalovirus, hepatitis- B and C co-infections, neurological complications, age related macular degeneration, cataract, and accelerated aging observed among HIV-infected patients.