Faculty & Research

Aguirre De cubas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Jeffrey Hammerbacher, AB

Research Assistant Professor
Immunology, data science, cancer immunology

Azizul Haque, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Antigen presentation, tumor immunobiology, inflammation, CNS disorders, autoimmunity.

Christina (Voelkel-)Johnson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Cell death, sphingolipids, oxidative stress, gene delivery.

Wei Jiang, M.D.

Associate Professor
HIV pathogenesis, toll-like receptor and innate immunity, sex differences in human immune responses, and lupus pathogenesis.

Laura Kasman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Medical Education Director for Microbiology and Immunology

Harold May, Ph.D.

Professor
Environmental microbiology, microbial physiology, microbial electrochemistry, bioenergy and bioremediation.

Richard O'Neil, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Sophie Paczesny, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Chairwoman
Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, cancer immune tumor microenvironment, inflammation, alarmins, T lymphocyte biology

Janardan Pandey, Ph.D.

Professor
Allotypes, Fcgamma receptor genes, ADCC, humoral immunity.

Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.

Professor
Controlling acquistion of hospital acquired infections, pandemic preparations and disaster preparedness, bacterial pathogenesis

Stephen Tomlinson, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair for Research & Faculty Development
The complement system in inflammation, alloimmunity, cancer immunity and CNS injury.

Chenthamarakshan Vasu, Ph.D.

Professor
Mucosal immunology, gut microbiota-host interactions, immune tolerance mechanisms, and targeted therapies for autoimmunity and inflammation.

Cynthia F. Wright Ph.D.

Professor
Viral gene expression and virus host interactions.