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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
Alfred Chang Professor, Surgery Tumor immunology and immunotherapy
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 Regulation of apoptosis; control of cell survival by the tumor necrosis factor and transforming growth factor beta receptor
superfamilies
Wesley Dunnick Professor, Microbiology & Immunology Gene-specific regulation of immunoglobulin switch recombination
James Ferrara Director, Combined BMT Program 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
Gary Glick Professor, Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Autoimmunity; autoantibodies
Margaret Gyetko Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Lung inflammatory and immune responses
Cory Hogaboam Associate Professor, Pathology Role of chemokines and cytokines in persistent allergic airway and pulmonary interstitial remodeling
Joseph Holoshitz Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Signal transduction, immunomodulatory, peptides and apoptosis in autoimmunity and neuroimmunology
Gary Huffnagle Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology Role of chemokines and cytokines in persistent allergic airway and pulmonary interstitial remodeling
Mariana Kaplan Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine

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
Director, Division of Immunotherapy, Department 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 Viral-host pathogenesis; chemokines and chemokine signaling in cancer; molecular imaging

Steven Lundy Research Investigator,
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, fetal hematopoiesis, T cell differentiation, Notch signaling

Sami Malek Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Lymphoid hematological malignancies: Studies into etiology, pathogenesis and response to therapy
Peter Mancuso Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Role of leptin in pulmonary inflammation, macrophage biology, and host defense against pneumococcal pneumonia. Tobacco smoke exposure and pulmonary immune suppression

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
Richard Miller Professor, Pathology Effects of aging on T cell signals; genetics of aging
Bethany Moore Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Chemokine, cytokine and eicosanoid regulation of pulmonary fibrosis; pulmonary infections post bone-marrow transplant
Thomas Moore

Assistant Professor,
Internal Medicine

Innate host responses during bacterial infection, microbial pathogenesis, T cells and bacterial infection.
Gabriel Nuñez Professor, Pathology Apoptosis, inflammation, and innate immunity

Mary
O' Riordan

Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology Innate immunity to intracellular bacterial pathogens
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 Director, Laboratory of Immunogenetics
Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes; Associate Professor Internal Medicine
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 Assistant 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,
Internal Medicine

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
Eric S. White Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Extra cellular matrix/integrin signaling
Fibronectins
PTEN tumor suppressor
Fibroblast biology
Sarcoidosis immunology

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 Associate Professor, Surgery Tumor immunity and immune vaccination

 


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