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Eric Rubin

Scientific Advisory Board


Harvard University

Eric Rubin is a physician scientist who studies tuberculosis. His laboratory develops genetic tools and uses these to study bacterial growth, survival and pathogenesis. The aim is to take the insights generated using these approaches to develop new strategies for treating and preventing tuberculosis. In addition to laboratory work at Harvard, Rubin is an infectious disease attending at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine.

Publications
The conserved translation factor LepA is required for optimal synthesis of a porin family in Mycobacterium smegmatis Mycobacterium smegmatis HtrA blocks the toxic activity of a putative cell wall amidase Deletion of a mycobacterial divisome factor collapses single-cell phenotypic heterogeneity Mycobacterial metabolic syndrome: LprG and Rv1410 regulate triacylglyceride levels, growth rate and virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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