Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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Heather W. Pinkett, PhD

Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences; Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Heather W. Pinkett, PhD

Research Program

Email

h-pinkett( at )northwestern.edu

Cancer-Focused Research

I am currently investigating how pathogenic organisms recognize and circumvent the host innate immune response; a mechanism crucial to the evolution of antimicrobial peptide (AMP) resistance. Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) utilizes the ABC transport system, the Sap transporter (sensitivity for antimicrobial peptides), to shuttle host-derived antimicrobial peptides into the cell's cytoplasm.