Gill Diamond, PhD
Professor
Department Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases
University of Louisville School of Dentistry
501 S. Preston St.
Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: (502) 852-1583
Email: gill.diamond@louisville.edu

Research Interests:

After receiving a Ph.D. in Genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I began research into antimicrobial peptides, which are naturally occurring antibiotics found throughout the body. Since my first faculty appointment in 1993, I have been studying how these peptides function in host defense against infections in the lung and oral cavity. My main areas of research now are finding out ways we can enhance the expression of these peptides to prevent infections, and developing novel antibiotics based on their structure to treat bacterial, fungal and viral infections.