Faculty & Research

Aguirre De cubas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 

Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 

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

 

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.

 

Cynthia F. Wright Ph.D.

Professor
Viral gene expression and virus host interactions.