Faculty & Research

Aguirre De cubas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Designing and developing engineered immune cell therapies for autoimmune disease, cancer, and aging.

Radhika Gudi. Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Identifying the canonical and non-canonical regulatory mechanisms that contribute towards centrosome structure and function, endocytic vesicular trafficking pathways and tumor suppression

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.

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

Richard O'Neil, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor   

Immune system in disease and treatment of disease. Specifically, we are interested in the role played by T cells and in developing ways to manipulate adaptive immunity, using engineered T cells as tools for therapy and for discovery.

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

Professor

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 Interim 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.