Julius O NyalwidheDr. Nyalwidhe is Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology and the Leroy T. Canoles Jr Cancer Research Center at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Nyalwidhe earned his PhD and completed his postdocoral training in Molecular Parasitology and Proteomics at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg, Germany. His research focuses on cancer biology and infectious disease pathogenesis. The goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms that initiate and mediate progression to aggressive forms of urological cancers and to uncover pathways that modulate host-pathogen interactions to drive infectious disease pathogenesis. His research centers on developing and applying new technologies in the field of mass spectrometry-based multi-omics analysis to understand human disease pathogenesis, and the discovery and development of biomarkers. Ongoing studies in his laboratory focus on understanding the role of glycosylation in the progression to aggressive forms of prostate cancer and the utility of prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) glycoforms and glycoforms of other urinary glycoproteins as diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic targets for aggressive forms of the disease. He is a member of the Virginia-UCLA-Toronto Biomarker Characterization Center, an NCI-designated center for biomarker research at EVMS. Edit Read More Read Less