Stony Brook University | School of Medicine | Health Sciences Center
ANGELIQUE CORTHALS, PhD
Angelique Corthals, PhD
Assistant Professor
Scientific Director of the BioBank
Basic Science Tower, Level 9
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8691
Tel: (631) 444-3140
Fax: (631) 444-3424
Email: angelique.corthals@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Research Summary:
Dr. Angelique Corthals is a forensic anthropologist specialized in studying the mechanisms and detection of autoimmune and infectious diseases. She earned her doctorate at Oxford and has researched and taught at the American Museum of Natural History, the University of Manchester (UK) and CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Her work has focused on the study of human and non-human remains for forensic purposes and on the study of the pathogenesis of autoimmune and infectious diseases, both in ancient and modern populations. She has studied human and non-human remains in major museums, on crime scene and on archaeological sites around the world. In December of 2011, she published a major review on the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis, where she shifted the framework of understanding the disease. Since 2009, she has also been a consultant on HIV viral load diagnostic technology for Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres) in Geneva and South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi.
She has been involved both off and on camera in the IMAX movie 'Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs', Discovery Channel 's 'Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen' and most recently, National Geographic's Explorer series 'Child Mummy Sacrifice'. She is a consultant for the television series 'CSI' and 'Bones' and has been a consultant for the building of the first ancient DNA laboratory for the purpose of studying ancient Egyptian mummies at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
| Education: | ||
| Institution and Location | Degree | Year(s) |
| University of Oxford, Merton College | Mphil | 1997-99 |
| University of Oxford, St. Cross College | DPhil (Ph.D.) | 1999-03 |
| Positions and Employment: | |
| 1996-97 |
Research Assistant, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1998-00 | Assistant Librarian, Merton College Library, University of Oxford |
| 1999 | Volunteer Intern in Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY |
| 1999 | Researcher, University of Oxford, England |
| 2000 | William Kelly Simpson intern in Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY |
| 2001-03 | Collection Manager, American Museum of Natural History, NY |
| 2003-06 | Curatorial Associate Director, American Museum of Natural History, NY |
| 2006-08 | Lecturer, Biomedical and Forensic Studies, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester |
| 2008-09 | Lecturer, Forensic Anthropology, Stony Brook University, NY |
| 2009 | Doctors without Borders Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines |
| 2009-12 | Assistant Professor, Forensic Science, CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| 2012-present | Assistant Professor, Pathology; Scientific Director, BioBank, Stony Brook University, NY |
| Other Experience and Professional Memberships: |
| Resident Fellow, The Explorers Club |
| International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories |
| American Anthropologists Association |
| The Society for Systematic Biology |
| The Oriental Institute (Chicago University) |
| The Association of Zoo and Aquaria |
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