Current Faculty

Peggi Angel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor 

Focus: Systems-based Approaches to Heart Valve Development and Disease 

Angel Lab

Lauren E. Ball, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Role of O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in the Regulation of Insulin/IGF-1 Receptor Signal Transduction Pathways

Jennifer R. Bethard, M.S.

Research Associate

Focus: Mass Spectrometry

Joe B. Blumer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Role of G-protein Regulatory (GPR) Proteins in Mammalian Cell Division and the Immune System

Michael Bouchard, Ph.D.

Professor

Aguirre De Cubas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Nathan Dolloff, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Drug Discovery Focus in B and Plasma Cell Malignancies

Dolloff Lab

Richard R. Drake, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Glycoprotein Biomarkers of Cancer and Mass Spectrometry Imaging

Drake Lab

Scott T. Eblen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Signal Transduction in Cancer Biology

Eblen Lab

Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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

Xueliang Gao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Tumorigenesis and translational oncology

Gao Lab

Radhika Gudi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Identifying regulatory mechanisms influencing centrosome structure & function, endocytic vesicular trafficking pathways & tumor suppression.

Gudi Lab

Azizul Haque, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Antigen presentation, tumor immunobiology, inflammation, CNS disorders, autoimmunity

Haque Lab

Wei Jiang, M.D.

Professor

Focus: HIV pathogenesis, toll-like receptor and innate immunity, sex differences in human immune responses, and lupus pathogenesis

Jiang Lab

Laura Kasman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Medical Education Director, Microbiology & Immunology

Anand Mehta, D.Phil

Professor

Focus: Biomarker discovery

Mehta Lab

Kengo Nozaki, MD, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Innate Sensor and Cell Death

Nozaki Lab

Richard O'Neil, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: 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

Focus: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, cancer immune tumor microenvironment, inflammation, alarmins, T lymphocyte biology

Paczesny Lab

Janardan Pandey, Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Allotypes, Fcgamma receptor genes, ADCC, humoral immunity

Pandey Lab

Steven A. Rosenzweig, Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Growth Factor Dysregulation in Cancer

Rosenzweig Lab 

Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Controlling acquisition of hospital acquired infections, pandemic preparations and disaster preparedness, bacterial pathogenesis

Schmidt Lab

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc

Professor

Focus: Cancer Drug Development

Tew Lab

Stephen Tomlinson, Ph.D.

Professor and Interim Chair for Research & Faculty Development

Focus: The complement system in inflammation, alloimmunity, cancer immunity and CNS injury.

Tomlinson Lab

Chenthamarakshan Vasu, Ph.D.

Professor

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

Vasu Lab

Haizhen Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Cell cycle proteins in cancer progression

Wang Lab

Zhiwei Ye, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Focus: Redox and drug development in cancer

Jie Zhang, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Focus: Redox and drug development in cancer

Hailong Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Enteric Nervous System, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Infection, Inflammation and Cancer

Zhang Lab