Lance B. Price
Associate Professor
Pathogen and Microbiome Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Price is an Arizona native. He received his B.S. in Microbiology and M.S. in Biology from Northern Arizona University (NAU). In 2000, Dr. Price moved to Baltimore and worked for a small biotech company before matriculating to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2003, Dr. Price became a Center for a Livable Future Pre-doctoral Fellow, characterizing public health risks associated with antibiotic use in industrial food-animal production. In 2006, Dr. Price completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Health Science, before joining the research faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he worked with his colleagues to characterize the complex bacterial communities that colonize chronic wounds, before joining TGen.
Research Interest
cutting-edge methods for characterizing the microbial communities that form the human microbiome, human body's microbial ecosystem, sources and spread of antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens.
Publications
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The persistence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter in poultry production Environ Health Perspect 115:1035-1039 2007
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Industrial Food Animal Production, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Human Health Annu. Rev. Public Health, In Press 2008
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Genetic aberrations and survival in plasma cell leukemia. Leukemia 22(5):1044-52 2008
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Meta-analysis of genome-wide linkage studies for quantitative lipid traits in African Americans. Hum Mol Genet 15;14(24):3955-62. 2005
