Philip Loverde, Ph.d.
President
Life Science
Biomedical Research Institute
United States of America
Biography
He serves as Editor and on the editorial boards of 10 journals. He has a history of service as a consultant for the National Institutes of Health, US AID, the World Health Organization and the Wellcome Trust. He has received a number of honors such as Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York. He has published over 180 papers
Research Interest
Dr. Philip T. LoVerde is a Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. His research interests are in host-parasite interactions, especially those that involve the human blood fluke, Schistosoma. His current research involves vaccine development, role of signal transduction in schistosome-host interactions, interplay between male and female parasites that results in female reproductive development, role of host genes in infection outcomes, genomics and genetic approach to identifying drug resistant genes.
