Research Program and Theme
Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems | Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology
Research Focus
Keith Jarosinski’s research spans multiple aspects of herpesvirus-induced cancers, including host-to-host transmission, latency, transformation, and reactivation, using Marek’s disease virus (MDV) in chickens as a natural translational animal model. Most herpesviruses do not cause cancer in humans and animals. Still, they occasionally can, including Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Kaposi sarcoma caused by Epstein-Barr and Kaposi sarcoma-associated viruses in humans. MDV uses similar mechanisms to induce lymphocytic cancers in chickens. His lab tries to understand how herpesviruses influence the transformation of lymphocytes that result in cancer to develop drugs or treatments to stop the development of cancer with these viruses.
Education
- Ph.D., Microbiology, Upstate Medical University, 1999
Campus Affiliations
- Associate Professor, Pathobiology
- Director of Graduate Studies, Pathobiology