Faculty

ALL IMP FACULTY

Raffi V. Aroian, Ph.D. (Molecular Medicine); Infectious diseases and parasitic disease



Jeffrey Bailey, MD, Ph.D.(Division of Transfusion Medicine, Program for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology); 
Infectious disease genetics focused on copy number variation and malaria.

Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D. (Pathology); Signal transduction proteins involved in T-cell development activitation. 

Rita Bortell, Ph.D. (Medicine, Diabetes); Pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes.



Abraham Brass, MD, Ph.D. (Microbiology and Physiological Systems); Host-viral interactions and IFITM family of anti-viral proteins. 



Michael Brehm, Ph.D. (Medicine, Diabetes); Antiviral immunity, development of humanized mouse models.

Lisa A. Cavacini, Ph.D. (Medicine, Mass Biologics); Humoral immunity, and human monoclonal antibodies (HMab) for infectious disease, cancer 
and  autoimmune disease.



Paul R. Clapham, Ph.D. (Molecular Medicine); HIV receptors and cellular tropisms.

Maria Duenas-Decamp, Ph.D. ( Molecular Medicine) HIV infection in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC)

Robert W. Finberg, M.D. (Medicine; Host cell surface proteins and viruses;  Cellular activation mediated by cell surface proteins.

Kate A. FItzgerald, PhD, (Medicine); Innate Immunity, Immune Signaling and Gene Regulation.

Joyce Fingeroth, M.D.  (Medicine; Development of anti-viral approaches to gamma herpes virus infection

Terence Flotte, M.D. (Pediatrics, Microbiology & Physiological Systems , Dean's Office)
Adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy of single gene disorders.



Guangping Gao, Ph.D. (Gene Therapy/ MaPS) Parvovirus evolution, viral-host interactions and vectorology for gene transfer.




Manuel Garber, Ph.D. (Program in Molecular Medicine)
Bioinformatics; evolutionary history of lincRNAs; dissection of the transcriptional regulation of the immune response. 



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, Ph.D. (Microbiology & Physiological Systems) 
B cell development, including aging; origins of B cell lymphoma; humoral immunity to bacterial pathogens.



Jon D. Goguen, Ph.D. (Microbiology & Physiological Systems) 
Function and regulation of virulence determinants in Yersinia pestis
 


Douglas T. Golenbock, M.D. (Medicine)
Toll receptors; pathophysiology of sepsis and pelvic inflammatory disease.



Heinrich Gottlinger, Ph.D., M.D. (Program in Molecular Medicine; Program in Gene Function and Expression)
Molecular Biology of HIV-1.



Ellen M. Gravallese, M.D.  (Medicine) 
Pathogenic mechanisms of inflammatory arthritis and the processes by which inflammation destroys cartilage and bone.




Sharone Green, M.D. (Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research)
Immunity and pathogenesis of West Nile and dengue viruses.

Dale L. Greiner, Ph.D. (Medicine)
T cell development and regulation of autoimmune disorders.

David Grunwald, Ph.D. (Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology); mRNA and nucleocytoplasmic transport.

John E. Harris, MD, .Ph.D., (Medicine, Division of Dermatology) Understanding the pathogenesis of 
autoimmune vitiligo with a focus on developing new treatments.

Jun R. Huh, Ph.D., (Medicine) Metabolites, nuclear recceptors, and immune cells

Eric Huseby, Ph.D. (Pathology)  Development of T cell tolerance of self and the autoimmune consequence of when it fails.

Duane Jenness, Ph.D. (MaPS) Cell-Surface Receptors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 

Joonsoo Kang, Ph.D.(Pathology) Molecular and cellular mechanisms of T cell lineage commitment.



Michelle Kelliher, Ph.D. (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Apoptosis and cancer.



Hardy Kornfeld, MD (Medicine)
Host defense against respiratory pathogens.



Timothy F. Kowalik , Ph.D. (Microbiology & Physiological Systems) 
Cell activation and DNA viruses.



Evelyn Kurt-Jones, Ph.D. (Medicine) Innate immune response to bacterial and viral infection.



Eicke Latz, MD, Ph.D. (Medicine, Infectious Disease) Toll-like receptor and inflammasome activation in terile inflammatory diseases.



Edward Leiter, Ph.D. (Jackson Laboratory)  Genetics and Pathogenesis of Diabetes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice. 



Stuart M. Levitz, MD (Infectious Disease) Host defenses against fungal infections, model vaccines exploiting mannosylation.



Dan Libraty, MD (Infectious Disease), IGP
Studies of human cellular immune responses contributing to pathogenesis and/or protective immunityinemerging viral diseases.



Egil Lien, Ph.D. (Medicine) Pathogen recognition and evasion of innate immune signaling. Toll-like receptors.



Vladimir Litvak, Ph.D. (Microbiology & Physiological Systems) 
Systems biology approaches to study the regulation of innate immune responses and anti-viral immunity. 



Shan Lu, MD, Ph.D. (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.



Jeremy Luban, MD (Program in Molecular Medicine) HIV-1 replication, pathogenesis, and immunity



Elizabeth J. Luna, Ph.D. (Cell Biology) Membrane skeletons in motile cells.



Katherine F. Ruiz de Luzuriaga, MD (Pediatrics) Virology and immunology of early vertical HIV-1 infection 
and HIV-1 specific cytotoxic T cells in vertical infection.



Pranoti Mandrekar, Ph.D. (Medicine) Signaling pathways in liver inflammation.



Ann Moormann, Ph.D., MPH (Molecular Medicine) Viral Immunology and Epidemiology



John P. Mordes, MD (Medicine)  Immunogenetics of autoimmune diabetes in rats and the human genome.

Mary Munson, Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular PHarmacology) Regulation of Vessicle Targeting and fusion.