El-Hage Lab

Nazira El-Hage, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Immunology and Nano-Medicine. Her research focuses on mechanisms underlying HIV pathology and the interlinked epidemics with opioid drug abuse in the central nervous system (CNS).

The El-Hage lab, located in Academic Health Center 1, also examines the role of neuroimmune signaling in the CNS in relation to drug misuse and behavior in HIV-positive subjects.