We list here Immunologists who comprise the faculty of the Immunology Program. Please click on their names to view more infromation about them.
| Name | Title | Research Focus |
| David Aronoff | Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine | Host-microbial interactions, with particular areas of interest including innate immunity, macrophage biology, cell signaling, and the regulation of host defense by lipid mediators |
| James Baker, Jr. | Professor, Internal Medicine | Autoimmunity; host defense, vaccines; targeted drug and gene delivery; enhanced contrast agents |
| D. Keith Bishop | Professor, Surgery | Transplantation immunology, immunosuppressive gene therapy; regulation of T cell mediated immunity |
| Marilia Cascalho | Associate Professor of Surgery, Microbiology & Immunology | B cell memory, B cell and immunoglobulin dependent T cell development and function and somatic hypermutation |
| Cheong-Hee Chang | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Regulation of the effector function of CD4 T cells and dendritic cells |
| Stephen Chensue | Professor, Pathology | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of leukocyte mobilization during granulomatous formation; pathology |
| Kathleen Collins | Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology | Viral pathogenesis; antiviral immunity |
| Jeffrey Curtis | Professor, Internal Medicine | Adhesion molecules and chemokines in lung leukocyte recruitment; signal transduction during macrophage phagocytosis of apoptotic cells; immunopathogenesis of tobacco-related lung disease |
| Colin Duckett | Associate Professor, Pathology and Internal Medicine | Analysis of the roles played by the IAP (Inhibitor of apoptosis) proteins in signal transduction and the control of programmed cell death. Deregulated activities of IAPs in disorders of lymphoid homeostasis, metabolic disease and cancer. |
| Wesley Dunnick | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Gene-specific regulation of immunoglobulin switch recombination |
| James Ferrara | Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics | Bone marrow transplantation, immune mechanisms of graft versus host disease; graft versus tumor reactions |
| David Fox | Professor, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology | Human T lymphocyte biology, rheumatoid arthritis, treatment of autoimmunity with genetically-modified dendritic cells, regulation of TH17 cells |
| Margaret Gyetko | Professor, Internal Medicine | Lung inflammatory and immune responses |
| Cory Hogaboam | Professor, Pathology | Role of infectious pathogens and innate immunity in allergic airway and pulmonary interstitial remodeling |
| Joseph Holoshitz | Professor, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology | Signal transduction, immunomodulatory, peptides and apoptosis in autoimmunity and neuroimmunology |
| Gary Huffnagle | Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology | immunology of fungal infection/colonization and the role of the microbiota in immune regulation |
| David Irani | Associate Professor, Neurology | Neuroimmunology; immunopathogenesis of viral infections of the central nervous system; innate immunity to viruses; immune mechanisms of neuronal and glial cell injury |
| Mariana Kaplan | Associate Professor, Internal Medicine | Role of innate immunity in autoimmune diseases and organ damage. Neutrophils and dendritic cells in autoimmune diseases; T cell-APC interactions in lupus; mechanisms of endothelial damage. |
| Philip King | Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Intracellular signaling pathways controlling T lymphocyte activation, differentiation and death |
| Steven Kunkel | Professor, Pathology | Biology and gene regulation of chemokines and cytokines; macrophage pathobiology |
| Yasmina Laouar | Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Immunology/Mechanisms of Immunosuppression |
| Yang Liu | deNancrede Professor of Surgery |
Overlapping area of immunology, cancer biology and autoimmune diseases. Genetic control of cancer and autoimmune diseases, cell surface interactions critical for T cell activation and autoimmunity, and interaction between cancer cells and immune and hematopoietic system |
| Nicholas Lukacs | Professor, Pathology | Pulmonary immune responses to allergens and viral infections. Role of cytokines and chemokines |
| Gary Luker | Assistant Professor, Radiology and Microbiology & Immunology |
Chemokines and chemokine receptor signaling in cancer; molecular imaging |
| Steven Lundy | Research Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine |
Regulation of the immune system in autoimmunity (particularly rheumatoid arthritis), asthma, cancer and transplantation |
| Ivan Maillard | Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Hematopoietic stem cells, T cell differentiation and homeostasis, Notch signaling |
| Peter Mancuso | Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences | Innate host defense against bacterial pneumonia, macrophage biology, eicosanoid biology, Tobacco smoke and immune suppression, role of obesity and adipocytokines in inflammation |
| David Markovitz | Professor, Internal Medicine | Regulation of HIV gene expression; signal transduction in T cells and monocytes; the role of DEK in autoimmunity; the role of vimentin in the immune response, endogenous retroviruses |
| Bethany Moore | Associate Professor, Internal Medicine | Chemokine, cytokine and eicosanoid regulation of pulmonary fibrosis; pulmonary infections post bone-marrow transplant |
| Thomas Moore | Assistant
Professor, |
Innate host responses during bacterial infection, microbial pathogenesis, T cells and bacterial infection. |
| Gabriel Nuñez | Professor, Pathology | Innate immunity; Inflammatory disease, Inflammation and cancer |
| Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Innate immunity to intracellular bacterial pathogens |
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| Marc Peters-Golden | Professor, Internal Medicine | Arachidonic acid metabolite synthesis and actions in inflammation, immune responses, host defense and fibrosis |
| Sem Phan | Professor, Pathology | Inflammatory/immune responses and tissue injury and repair |
| Massimo Pietropaolo | Professor Internal Medicine and Pediatrics | Molecular mechanisms of islet cell autoimmunity in Type 1 diabetes Autoimmunity, Autoantibodies |
| Jeffrey Platt | Professor of Surgery, Microbiology and Immunology |
Transplantation immunology, immunological recognition, immunologic and genomic stability of stem cells, activation and control of TLR |
| Malini Raghavan | Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | Molecular interactions in antigen presentation and viral immune evasion |
| Pavan Reddy | Associate Professor, Internal Medicine | Bone marrow transplantation, GVHD/GVL |
| Bruce Richardson | Professor, Internal Medicine | Epigenetic mechanisms altering T cell function in autoimmunity and aging; Molecular mechanisms causing lupus; Mechanisms predisposing women to autoimmunity, Epigenetic changes caused by environmental agents, Role of oxidative damage in epigenetic alterations |
| Blake Roessler | Associate Professor, Internal Medicine | Development of gene therapy for the rheumatic diseases |
| Benjamin Segal | Professor of Neurology | Neuroimmunology; autoimmune diseases of the nervous system; cytokine and chemokine networks/ leukocyte interactions in multiple sclerosis and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis |
| Theodore Standiford | Professor, Internal Medicine | Lung inflammation |
| Lloyd Stoolman | Professor, Pathology | Lymphocyte recirculation and migration; Immunotherapy of malignant disease; T-cell trafficking during normal and pathologic immune responses; regulation of adhesion receptors involved in T-cell trafficking |
| Grace Su | Associate
Professor, |
Liver and innate immunity |
| Joel Swanson | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Endocytosis and motility in macrophages |
| Peter Ward | Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology | Regulation and role of complement activation products, adhesion-promoting molecules and cytokines in the inflammatory response and in sepsis; signaling pathways in phagocytes |
| Christiane Wobus | Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology |
Mechanisms of norovirus - host interactions with macrophages and dendritic cells, interplay of virus, host and microbiome at the mucosal surface of the gastrointestinal tract |
| Yi Zhang | Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine | Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, GVHD/GVL, Memory T cells, Stem cell/T cell signaling |
| Pan Zheng | Associate Professor, Surgery and Pathology | Tumor immunology, Cancer Biology, Wnt signal transduction |
| Weiping Zou | Professor, Surgery | Tumor immunity and immune vaccination |
