
Christopher Engeland
PhD
Associate Professor; BBH Joint Faculty
229 Biobehavioral Health Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-4694
Email: cge2@psu.edu
Research Overview: I am interested in how stress, age, gender, and hormones affect immunity, inflammation, and health; also, the feasibility of different biomarkers (e.g., from blood, saliva, wound fluid) for predicting health outcomes.
Research Interests:
i) Effects of stress, age, sex & hormones on inflammation and wound healing (human, animal)
- ii) Stress, inflammation, cognitive aging/decline, and dementia (human)
iii) Inflammation and mental health (e.g., depression, bipolar, PMDD) (human)
- iv) Inflammatory biomarkers and stress as predictors of preterm birth (human)
- v) Salivary diagnostics and immunity (human)
- vi) Effects of chronic stress and oxytocin on wound healing (animal)