Stress and Immunity Lab

Welcome to the Stress & Immunity Lab

Research Overview: This lab focuses on how stress, age, gender, and hormones affect immunity, inflammation, and health; also the feasibility of biomarkers for predicting health outcomes.

Research Interests:

• Stress, inflammation, cognitive aging/decline, and dementia (human)
• Hormonal regulation of dermal and mucosal tissue repair (human)
• Effects of chronic stress and oxytocin on wound healing (animal)
• Inflammatory biomarkers and stress as predictors of preterm birth (human)
• Inflammation and depression (human)
• Inflammation and bipolar disorder (human)
• Salivary diagnostics (human)

Director – Dr. Christopher Engeland