School of Dentistry

Most oral disease are related to oral bacteria. Our immune system responds to bacterial infections by increasing the threshold for inflammatory pathogens that may destroy host tissues. Our major goals are (1) to understand the compositional changes of oral microflora through environmental changes and (2) to understand immune system responses to various bacteria and their virulence factors, all of which may provide understanding of the pathogens that cause oral infectious dieseases as well as the tools for the diagnosis and treatments of infectious disease at the molecular level.

• Professor Chung, Jin
• Associate Professor Na, Hee Sam