Donald Nyangahu, PhD

Donald Nyangahu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a resident faculty member at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. He completed his PhD in Clinical Science and Immunology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he studied the impact of maternal gut microbiota on offspring microbiota and immunity. He conducted his postdoctoral research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute investigating the influence of early-life gut microbiota on infants’ vaccine responses. His lab studies the gut bacteriome, virome, and vaccine responses in infants exposed to HIV but uninfected and uses animal models to gain mechanistic insights into clinical outcomes in these infants.