IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Faculty by Department
Microbiology and Immunology
- Chris Roman Lymphocyte Development; Autoimmunity; Mechanisms of Oncogenesis
- Haseeb Siddiqi Host-parasite interactions and nechanisms of pathogenesis and immunity in schistosomiasis
- Hal Neimark Bacterial Evolution to Parasitism and Characterization of Uncultured Bacterial Pathogens
- Chris Helen Eukaryotic Translation Mechanisms and their Exploitation by Viruses
- Camilo Parada Control of HIV-1 Transcription
- Harold Neimark Bacterial Evolution to Parasitism and Characterization of Uncultured Bacterial Pathogens
- Fredric C. Volkert Basic Biology of Yeast; Yeast Cells as a Model for Human Biological Processes
- Foroozan Mokhtarian Mechanisms of Demyelination and Remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis
Anatomy and Cell Biology
- John Lewis Interferons and Antiviral Responses
- Allen Norin Transplantation Immunology; Cytotoxic T cells
Pathology
- Helen Durkin Immune responses in HIV-1 disease; regulation of allergic/IgE responses in humans and rodents; neural regulation of immune responses
- Maja Nowakowski Immune system-pathogen interactions; viral infection, macrophage physiology and immune functions; systemic and local lung immunity in HIV-1 disease, tuberculosis and chronic inflammatory lung diseases; regulation of nitric oxide generation by human macrophages and other cell types
- Susan Gottesman Leukemia and Lymphoma
- Josef Michl Antibodies to tumor antigens as anti-cancer agents; hybridoma technology
Biochemistry
- Ed Quadros Autoimmune Antibodies and Neural Tube Defects
Physiology/Pharmacology
- Mark Stewart Mast Cells in Neurobiology
- Ellen Hsu Antibody Diversification and Expression
- Vahe Amassian Transcranial Stimulation and the Immune Response
Medicine (Allergy & Immunology, Infectious Disease, Hematology & Oncology, Rheumatology)
- Rauno Joks (Medicine/Allergy & Immunology): Human Allergic IgE Response
- Ellen Ginzler (Medicine/Rheumatology): Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Olcay Batuman (Medicine/Hematology and Oncology): Pathogenesis of the blood cancer Multiple Myeloma; Transforming Growth Factor-β Regulation in Hypoxia
- William M. McCormack, M.D, Chief: Epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted conditions.
- Michael H. Augenbraun, M.D.: Sexually transmitted infections in HIV infected persons; Hospital Epidemiology
- Jack A. DeHovitz, M.D., M.P.H.: Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections. Epidemiology and Prevention of HIV and associated infections in Central/Eastern Europe. Natural history of HIV disease in women.
- Sheldon H. Landesman, M.D.: Maternal-fetal transmission of HIV
- Stephen Kaminsky HIV vaccine development via the design of immunogens, via recombinant envelope structures, synthetic peptides and medicinal chemistry approaches
Pediatrics
- Margaret Hammerschlag (Pediatrics/Infectious Disease): Immunology of Chlamydia Infection
- Stephan Kohlhoff (Pediatrics/Infectious Disease) Mechanisms of Chronic Chlamydia Infection
- William Treem (Pediatrics/GI) Immunology of inflammatory bowel disease, neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, and eosinophilic esophagitis.
- Tamar Smith-Norowitz Memory IgE and IgE anti-viral responses
Anesthesiology
- Ming Zhang (Anesthesiology/Anatomy and Cell Biology): Innate Immunity and Ischemia / Reperfusion Injury
