Associate Professor
Jacobs School of Medicine/Univ of Buffalo
Mark Daniel Hicar, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo and Oishe's Children's Hospital
The focus of my research career is antibody discovery against infectious agents. I have used a variety of techniques to discover human antibodies. I have active research program on antibodies against HIV, Kawasaki disease, Alzheimer's and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). These anti-HIV antibodies were isolated using single B cell cultures after separation by flow cytometry. In our current projects, we are cloning paired heavy and light chain genes from plasmablasts and using advanced genomics for diseases such as COVID-19, MIS-C, Alzheimer's, and Kawasaki disease.