UConn Health announced the addition of six new clinical and research faculty: Dr. Guoyang Luo, Dr. Surita Rao and Amanda Durante on the clinical side and Kepeng Wang, Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja and Beiyan Zhou have joined as researchers in the Department of Immunology.
Luo has joined UConn Health as director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He comes to UConn from Danbury Hospital.
Rao, a member of the faculty since 2008, brings her expertise in addiction psychiatry and mood and anxiety disorders to the UConn Health psychiatry practice in Farmington. She most recently served as medical director of the Whiting Forensic Division of the Connecticut Valley Hospital.
Durante brings her research expertise in infectious disease epidemiology to UConn Health from the New Haven Health Department.
Wang joins UConn Health from the University of California, San Diego. Wang’s research focuses on the role of inflammation and immunity in cancer development.
Vanaja’s research focuses on innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions and inflammasomes.
Zhou’s research interests are in diabetes, metabolism and hematology.
