 | Leslie J. Berg , PhD (Pathology)
Immunology Program Director
Signal transduction proteins involved in T-cell development and activation. |
 | Trudy G.Morrison, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Virology Program Director
Glycoprotein processing and assembly; mechanisms of paramyxovirus membrane fusion. |
 | Timothy F. Kowalik , PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
IVP Committee Chair
Cell activation and DNA viruses. |
 | Jeffrey Bailey, MD, PhD (Division of Transfusion Medicine, Program for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology)
Infectious disease genetics focused on copy number variation and malaria. |
 | Rita Bortell, PhD (Medicine, Diabetes)
Pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes. |
 | Victor Boyartchuk, PhD (Program in Gene Function and Expression)
Analysis of genetic factors controlling susceptibility to infectious diseases. |
 | Michael Brehm, PhD (Medicine, Diabetes)
Antiviral immunity, development of humanized mouse models. |
 | Francis Ka-Ming Chan, PhD (Pathology)
Analysis of TNF receptor signaling in healthy and diseased immune systems. |
 | Jason J. Chen, PhD (Medicine)
Cell cycle checkpoints and apoptosis of cells expressing papillomavirus oncogenes. |
 | Paul R. Clapham, PhD (Molecular Medicine)
HIV receptors and cellular tropisms. |
 | Ronald C. Desrosiers, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Molecular mechanisms of HIV. |
.gif) | Angela Dolganiuc, MD, PhD (Medicine) |
 | Richard Dutton, PhD (Pathology)
Generation and function of CD8 effector and memory T cells. |
 | Francis A. Ennis, MD (Medicine)
Clinical and laboratory studies on the immune response of host to virus infections, emphasizing the role of cellular responses in viral infections. |
 | Robert W. Finberg, MD (Medicine)
Host cell surface proteins and viruses; Cellular activation mediated by cell surface proteins. |
 | Kate Fitzgerald, PhD (Medicine)
Anti-viral innate immune signaling. |
| Terence Flotte, MD (Pediatrics, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Dean's Office)
Adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy of single gene disorders. |
.jpg) | Casey Fox, PhD (Jackson Laboratory)
Control of lymphomagenesis by c-Myc and Pim kinases. |
| Uri Galili, PhD (Medicine)
Exploiting the natural anti-Gal antibody in the clinical setting. |
 | Guangping Gao, PhD (Gene Therapy)
Parvovirus evolution, viral-host interactions and vectorology for gene transfer. |
 | Ricardo Gazzinelli, D.Sc., D.V.M (Infectious Diseases and Immunology Medicine)
Cognate innate immune receptors and development of vaccines for protozoan parasites. |
 | Rachel M. Gerstein, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Developmental regulation of V(D)J recombination and B cell development. |
 | Jon D. Goguen, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Function and regulation of virulence determinants in Yersinia pestis. |
| Douglas T. Golenbock, MD (Medicine)
Toll receptors; pathophysiology of sepsis and pelvic inflammatory disease. |
 | Heinrich Gottlinger, PhD, MD (Program in Molecular Medicine; Program in Gene Function and Expression)
Molecular Biology of HIV-1. |
 | Sharone Green, MD (Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research)
Immunity and pathogenesis of West Nile and dengue viruses. |
 | Dale L. Greiner, PhD (Medicine)
T cell development and regulation of autoimmune disorders. |
 | Steven R. Grossman, MD, PhD (Cancer Biology)
The ubiquitin/proteasome system and cancer. |
 | John Harris, MD, PhD (Medicine, Division of Dermatology)
Understanding the pathogenesis of autoimmune vitiligo with a focus on developing new treatments. |
 | Eric Huseby, PhD (Pathology)
Development of T cell tolerance of self and the autoimmune consequence of when it fails. |
 | Ronald M. Iorio, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Mechanism of neutralization of animal viruses; viral glycoprotein structure and function. |
 | Joonsoo Kang, PhD (Pathology)
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of T cell lineage commitment. |
 | Michelle Kelliher, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Apoptosis and cancer. |
 | Richard Konz, Jr. (Medicine)
Flow Cytometry and High-Speed Cell Sorting. |
 | Hardy Kornfeld, MD (Medicine)
Host defense against respiratory pathogens. |
 | Evelyn Kurt-Jones, PhD (Medicine)
Signaling by receptors on monocytes and macrophages that mediate the innate immune response to bacterial and viral infection. |
 | Eicke Latz, MD, PhD (Medicine, Infectious Disease)
Study of Mechanisms of Toll-like receptor and inflammasome activation and their role for sterile inflammatory diseases. |
 | Edward Leiter, PhD (Jackson Laboratory)
Genetics and Pathogenesis of Diabetes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice |
 | John M. Leong, MD, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Interactions of pathogenic bacteria with mammalian cells. |
 | Stuart M. Levitz, MD (Infectious Disease)
Host defenses against fungal infections, model vaccines exploiting mannosylation. |
 | Dan Libraty, MD (Infectious Disease)
Studies of human cellular immune responses contributing to pathogenesis and/or protective immunityinemerging viral diseases. |
 | Egil Lien, PhD (Medicine)
Pathogen recognition and evasion of innate immune signaling. Toll-like receptors. |
 | Craig Lilly, MD (Medicine)
Mechanisms of airway inflammation, biomarkers of disease and critical care outcomes. |
.jpg) | Shan Lu, MD, PhD (Medicine)
Immunogenicity of protein and peptide antigens. Structure and function relationship of envelope proteins of the immunodeficiency viruses. Roles of cytokines and adjuvants in DNA immunization. |
 | Elizabeth J. Luna, PhD (Cell Biology)
Membrane skeletons in motile cells. |
 | Katherine F. Ruiz de Luzuriaga, MD (Pediatrics)
Virology and immunology of early vertical HIV-1 infection andHIV-1 specific cytotoxic T cells in vertical infection. |
 | Pranoti Mandrekar, PhD (Medicine)
Signaling pathways in liver inflammation. |
 | William Marshall, MD (Infectious Diseases and Immunology)
Mechanisms that viruses employ to evade innate immunity, including cell-mediated death pathways that ordinarily regulate viral replication. |
 | Ann Moormann, PhD, MPH (Pediatrics, Quantitative Health)
Viral Immunology and Epidemiology |
| Peter Newburger, MD (Pediatrics, Cancer Biology)
Neutrophil function and gene expression. |
 | Sanjay Ram, MD (Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases)
Complement evasion strategies of microbes, with an emphasis on Neisseria meningitides and N. gonorrhoeae. |
 | Peter Rice, MD (Infectious Diseases and Immunology)
Host Interactions with Neisseriagonorrhoeae |
 | Kenneth L. Rock, MD (Pathology)
Mechanisms to control display of foreign antigens to immune system. |
 | Alan L. Rothman, MD (Medicine)
Immunopathogenesis of viral infections; T lymphocyte responses. |
 | Ann Marshak-Rothstein, PhD (Medicine, Rheumatology)
Innate immune triggers of systemic autoimmune diseases. |
 | Christopher Sassetti, PhD (Microbiology and Physiological Systems)
Molecular mechanisms underlying tuberculosis pathogenesis. |
 | Madelyn Schmidt, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Gene therapy approaches to treat genetic immunodeficiencies. |
 | Carol Schrader, PhD(Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
B cell immunology. |
 | Liisa K. Selin, MD (Pathology)
Mechanisms of viral immunology. |
 | Leonard Shultz, PhD (Jackson Laboratories)
Mouse Models for Human Immunological Diseases and Hematolymphoid Cell Engraftment. |
 | Neal S. Silverman, PhD (Medicine)
Immune signaling pathways. |
 | Merav Socolovsky, PhD, MBBS (Cancer Biology)
Molecular mechanisms regulating the homeostasis of hematopoietic progenitors. |
 | Janet M. Stavnezer, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Molecular genetics of the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Switch |
 | Lawrence J. Stern, Ph.D. (Pathology)
Molecular recognition in the immune system. |
 | Mario Stevenson, PhD (Molecular Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Regulation of HIV-1 infectivity and pathogenesis of AIDS. |
 | John L. Sullivan, MD (Pediatrics, Pathology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Immunodeficiency syndromes and antiviral host defense mechanisms. |
 | Susan Swain, PhD (Pathology) |
 | Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD (Medicine)
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of ethanol-induced monocyte aberrations in normals and immunosuppressed trauma patients; selective inhibition of antigen-specific T lymphocyte proliferation by acute ethanol exposure. |
 | Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda, MD (Pathology)
Interactions of viral gene products and host immune systems. |
 | Masanori Terajima, MD, PhD (Medicine)
Immunopathogenesis of hantavirus infections, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and hemorrhagic fever renal syndrome (HFRS). Host immune reaction against vaccinia virus. |
 | Jennifer Wang, MD (Medicine, Infectious Disease)
Viral Immunology |
 | Raymond M. Welsh, PhD (Pathology and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Viral and tumor immunology. |
 | Bruce A. Woda, MD (Pathology)
Transmembrane interactions of lymphocyte receptors with cytoskeletal elements; autoimmune diabetes. |
 | Robert T. Woodland, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Regulation of the immune response. |
 | Maria Zapp, PhD (Molecular Medicine)
Molecular mechanisms of mRNA export; functional gene transfer into human fetal hematopoietic stem cells. |
 | Shenghua Zhou, Ph.D., M.D. (Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Immunology
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| | For those UMMS faculty interested in becoming an Immunology and Virology Program Committee member, please forward your full CV or your full 4-page NIH biosketch along with a cover letter to Timothy.Kowalik@umassmed.edu . |