Edition: United States Donate Get newsletter Become an author Sign up as reader Sign in THE CONVERSATION Search analysis, research; academics Articles Comments Mitzi Nagarkatti Sign in to contact Professor Pathology; Microbiology and Immunology; University of South Carolina Columbia South Carolina U.S. Profile Articles Activity Website Article Feed Joined April 22.2020 Dr: Mitzi Nagarkatti is SmartState Endowed Chair of Center for Cancer Drug Discovery as well Carolina Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Dept: of Pathology; Microbiology and Immunology at the School of Medicine (SOM), University of South Carolina (UofSC) 2005 Dr: Nagarkatti moved from the Medical College of Virginia where she was Professor in the Se Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology as well as directed the Immune Mechanisms Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Massey Cancer Center: Dr: Nagarkatti's research is broad-based and encompasses Inflammation, Autoimmunity; Complementary and Alternative Medicine , Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy; and Immunotoxicology: Dr: Nagarkatti has been the recipient of S7Omillion in extramural funding Principal Investigator (PIJICo-PI. to support the research in her lab since moving to UofSC. She is currently thePI Ion 3 National Institutes of Health (NIH) ROL grants. She also serves as the Co-PI of yet another Center Grant for S6million from National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) to study the epigenetic mechanisms underlying the role of plant products in treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, which was renewed for an additional 5 years for S8million In addition, Dr: Nagarkatti is also a Co-P on a 5-vear COBRE arant on Dietarv Sunnlements and Inflammation for S1Omillion