David Raskin, Ph.D.
David Raskin, Ph.D., is a clinical professor of microbiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. He teaches microbiology and infectious disease and is co-director of the 鈥淚ntegumentary System鈥� and the 鈥淗ematologic and Lymphatic System鈥� courses.
Raskin鈥檚 research expertise includes bacterial physiology and host-pathogen interactions. He studies the bacterium responsible for the diarrheal disease cholera, Vibrio cholerae, and focuses on how changes in the local environment produce changes in basic physiologic processes. These changes allow the bacteria to colonize the gastrointestinal tract and cause disease. He has published many peer-reviewed articles on the subject.
He earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology from Ohio State University and a master鈥檚 degree at the University of Dayton. He earned his doctorate from Case Western Reserve University in molecular biology & microbiology and completed a research fellowship studying bacterial pathogenesis at Harvard Medical School.
Previously, Raskin taught microbiology at the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine.