Biodesign Institute
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Email: stephen.johnston@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-0792
Media Relations Officer
Steve Filmer / Stephen.Filmer@asu.edu
Cheryl Nickerson
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy
Expert in: Microbiology, Bacteria, Drugs and therapeutics
Email: Cheryl.Nickerson@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-7520
Media Relations Officer
Steve Filmer / Stephen.Filmer@asu.edu
Arvind Varsani
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences
Expert in: Viruses, Evolution, Theoretical evolutionary biology, Climate change
Email: Arvind.Varsani@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-2093
Media Relations Officer
Steve Filmer / Stephen.Filmer@asu.edu
Ferran Garcia-Pichel
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Center for Fundamental & Applied Microbiomics
Expert in: Microbiology, Evolution, Theoretical evolutionary biology, Climate change
Email: ferran@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-7534
Media Relations Officer
Steve Filmer / Stephen.Filmer@asu.edu
Diego Mastroeni
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center
Expert in: Neuroscience, Alzheimer’s disease, Cell biology, Drugs and therapeutics, CTE
Carlo Maley
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society
Expert in: Cancer, Cancer evolution, Computation, Drugs and therapeutics
Email: maley@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-7320
Media Relations Officer
Steve Filmer / Stephen.Filmer@asu.edu
Karen Anderson
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences
Expert in: Cancer, Immunology, Diagnostics, Drugs and therapeutics, Breast cancer, Immunotherapy
Email: Karen.Anderson.1@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-6982
Media Relations Officer
Steve Filmer / Stephen.Filmer@asu.edu
Rolf Halden
Biodesign Institute, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Expert in: Coronavirus, Public health, Environmental chemistry, Biological treatment processes, Engineering
Email: Rolf.Halden@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-0893
Media Relations Officer
Joseph Caspermeyer / joseph.caspermeyer@asu.edu
Sara Imari Walker
School of Earth and Space Exploration, Biodesign Institute, The Beyond Center, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Expert in: Physics
Email: sara.i.walker@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 727-2394
Media Relations Officer
Steve Filmer / Stephen.Filmer@asu.edu
Lara A. Ferry
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Biodesign Institute, Global Security Initiative, Barrett, The Honors College
Expert in: Biology, Evolution, Biodiversity
Email: Lara.Ferry@asu.edu
Phone: (602) 543-2817
Media Relations Officer
Joseph Caspermeyer / joseph.caspermeyer@asu.edu