Immunity, Microbes, and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMMP)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.

Keriann Backus*
Chemical tools to manipulate the adaptive immune response

Steven Bensinger*
Lipid metabolism, inflammation and immunity

Siobhan Braybrook*
Investigating host polysaccharide and microbiome interactions in plants and algae

Manish Butte
T cell activation and tolerance; genetic immunodeficiency and autoimmunity

Irvin Chen
Gene-based therapy for HIV and cancer

Yvonne Chen*
T-cell immunotherapy; chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineering; synthetic biology

Genhong Cheng
Host immune responses to infections, cancers and metabolic challenges

Samson Chow
Molecular mechanisms of viral integration into host DNA

Robert Clubb
Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis

Gay Crooks*
Human hematopoietic stem cells, lymphopoiesis and transplantation

David Dawson
Molecular alterations responsible for pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Mario Deng
Advanced Heart Failure/Mechanical Support/Heart Transplant

Timothy Donahue
Mechanisms of pancreatic cancer initiation and progression

Steven Dubinett*
Inflammation and immunity in the pathogenesis of lung cancer

James Economou
Melanoma, liver cancer and immunotherapeutics

Frederick (Fritz) Eilber
Translating molecular oncology from the laboratory to the clinic

Oliver Fregoso*
Molecular and evolutionary approaches to understand virus-host interactions of HIV

Samuel French
Proteomic study of liver cancer development

Feng Guo*
RNA-targeting drug development

Yousang Gwack
Macromolecular structure and regulation of CRAC channels

Elaine Hsiao*
Microbiome-gut-brain interactions, bacterial metabolism, neurodevelopmental disease

Oluwatayo Ikotun*
Molecular imaging of immune cell dynamics in cancer and inflammatory disease

Patricia Johnson
Pathogenesis of the human parasite Trichomonas

Daniel Kaufman*
Therapeutics for autoimmune and neurological disease

Donald Kohn
Development and implementation of gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells

Paul Krogstad
HIV replication, pathogenesis and clinical management. Picornavirus pathogenesis

Huiying Li
Systems biology of the human microbiome and diseases, metagenomics

Roger Lo*
Genetic underpinning of human melanoma

Otoniel Martinez-Maza
Immune dysfunction in the development of AIDS-associated cancers

M. Carrie Miceli
T Cell activation and inactivation

Robert Modlin*
Innate and adaptive immune defense against microbial pathogens

Sherie Morrison
Functional properties of antibodies and novel antibody-based therapeutics

Tim O’Sullivan*
Tissue-resident innate immune responses during infection, cancer, and obesity

Manuel Penichet
Cancer immunology, immunotherapy, antibody-based therapeutics

Charalabos Pothoulakis
Neuropeptides and hormones in IBD, infections and cancer

Robert Prins
Mechanisms of anti-tumor immunity to malignant brain tumors

Caius Radu*
Nucleotide metabolism, drug discovery and development, molecular imaging

Dinesh Rao*
Physiology and pathology of non-coding RNA in hematopoiesis

Elaine Reed*
Immunity in transplantation and inflammatory diseases

Dorthe Schaue
Tumor-specific immune responses following radiation therapy

Robert Schiestl
Molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis

Ram Raj Singh
Immune cell interactions in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases

Stephen Smale*
Gene regulation mechanisms controlling inflammatory responses

Maureen Su
Autoimmunity and anti-tumor immunity

Elizabeth Tarling
investigate how protein aggregation affects cancer development and progression in order to identify novel therapeutic targets and develop peptide drugs with anti-cancer capabilities

Michael Teitell
Mitochondrial metabolism; Stem and B cell development and malignancy; bioengineering

Jide Tian
Peripheral T cell tolerance and neuroimmune regulation

James Tidball
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, immune system-muscle interactions

Hung Ton-That*
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenicity

Christel Uittenbogaart
How HIV impacts lymphocyte development in the human thymus

Thomas Vallim*
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism

Owen Witte
Growth regulation of hematopoietic and epithelial cancers

Ting-Ting Wu*
Modified herpesviruses as gene delivery vectors

Lili Yang
Next-generation immune checkpoint blockade therapy & off-the-shelf CAR-iNKT cell therapy for cancer

Otto Yang
Cellular immunity in HIV-1 pathogenesis and vaccine development

Jerome Zack*
Pathogenic processes of HIV-1 infection

Hong Zhou
CryoEM of membrane proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes and microbes