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 | Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology | Mucosal immunology of the female reproductive tract, the gastrointestinal tract, and the lung. Particular areas of interest include innate immunity, epithelial cell and macrophage biology, cell signaling, and the regulation of host defense by lipid mediators and G protein coupled receptors. |
| James Baker, Jr. | Professor, Internal Medicine, Allergy and Immunology | Autoimmunity; host defense, vaccines; targeted drug and gene delivery; enhanced contrast agents |
| Igor Belyakov | Research Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Allergy | Mucosal immunology, basic mechanisms of inflammation, animal models of infection and tumors, viral immunology, pathogen-associated cancers, the immunology of host-pathogen interactions, and development of vaccines against chronic infectious diseases and cancer |
| 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 generation of diversity in health and disease |
| Cheong-Hee Chang | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Regulation of innate-like CD4 T cell development and function |
| Stephen Chensue | Professor, Pathology | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of leukocyte mobilization during granulomatous formation; pathology |
| Kathleen Collins | Professor, Internal Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology | Viral pathogenesis; antiviral immunity |
| Jeffrey Curtis | Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care | Adhesion molecules and chemokines in lung leukocyte recruitment; signal transduction during macrophage phagocytosis of apoptotic cells; immunopathogenesis of tobacco-related lung disease |
| Colin Duckett | 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. |
| 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 |
| Irina Grigorova | Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Regulation of humoral (antibody) immune response initiation; intravital imaging and quantitative analysis of lymphocyte dynamic behavior in living mice. |
| Margaret Gyetko | Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care | 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 |
| 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, Rheumatology |
Role of innate immunity in autoimmune diseases and organ damage. Neutrophils and dendritic cells in autoimmune diseases; Mechanisms of endothelial damage in systemic lupus erythematosus and other autoimmune diseases |
| Venkat Keshamouni | Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care | Cancer cell and host immune cell interactions in tumor microenvironment; Tumor tolerance mechanisms; TGF-b and TLR signaling |
| Philip King | Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Intracellular signaling pathways controlling T lymphocyte activation, differentiation and death. Lymphatic vessel biology, cancer and angiogenesis |
| 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 | Charles B. de Nancrede Research Professor in 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 | Associate Professor, Radiology and Microbiology & Immunology |
Chemokines and chemokine receptor signaling in cancer; molecular imaging |
| Carey Lumeng | Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases | Obesity and Inflammation. Adipose tissue macrophages and lymphocyte activation with obesity. Dietary influences on inflammatory cell activation. Intravital microscopy on adipose tissue leukocytes. |
| Steven Lundy | Research Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology |
Regulation of the immune system in autoimmunity (particularly rheumatoid arthritis), asthma, cancer and transplantation |
| Ivan Maillard | Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology | Notch signaling, blood-forming stem cells, T cell differentiation and homeostasis, bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, autoimmunity |
| Peter Mancuso | Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences | Adipokine regulation of macrophage effector functions in bacterial pneumonia, Role of E-prostanoid receptors in pneumococcal pneumonia. Tobacco smoke induced immune suppression. |
| David Markovitz | Professor, Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases | 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 | Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care | Chemokine, cytokine and eicosanoid regulation of pulmonary fibrosis; pulmonary infections post bone-marrow transplant |
| Thomas Moore | Research Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care |
Innate host responses during bacterial infection, microbial pathogenesis, T cells and bacterial infection. |
| Gabriel Nuñez | Professor, Pathology | Innate immunity; Inflammatory disease, Inflammation and cancer |
| Michal Olszewski | Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care | Interface of the adaptive and innate immunity during host-pathogen interactions |
| Mary O' Riordan |
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology | Innate immunity to intracellular bacterial pathogens |
| Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care | Investigating the recruitment and function of myeloid cells (monocytes, dendritic cells, and macrophages) that accumulate in the lung in response to infection and/or injury |
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| Sophie Paczesny | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases | Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, Graft-versus-Host-Disease, Graft-versus-Leukemia/Tumor |
| Marc Peters-Golden | Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care | lipid mediator actions, receptors, and signaling in inflammation, innate immunity, and pulmonary 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 | Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | Antigen presentation and HLA polymorphisms in infection |
| Pavan Reddy | Associate Professor, Internal Medicine | Bone marrow transplantation, GVHD/GVL |
| Bruce Richardson | Professor, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology | 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 | Professor, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology | Understanding mechanistic links between adipokine signaling and Wnt signaling pathways in osteoarthritis |
| 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, Pulmonary and Critical Care | 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
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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; role of complement in sepsis |
| 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 | Professor, Surgery and Pathology | Hematopoietic stem cells, TSC-mTOR signaling, Tumor immunology, Cancer Biology, Aging Biology |
| Weiping Zou | Professor, Surgery | Tumor immunity and immune vaccination |
