Prof. Modupe Coker

Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, United States of America

By investigating shifts in the microbiome, Prof. Coker’s team hopes to understand how microbiota modulation might present as an important therapeutic target for better long-term health outcomes particularly in young children. Building on my work on the microbiome, HIV and clinical expertise, I am currently focused on conducting large-scale human microbiome research in the context of longitudinal molecular epidemiology studies in young children. In addition, I am motivated by questions related to disease causality and the rigorous epidemiologic methods used to address them. Most recently, we have been involved in research related to SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology.