IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Faculty by Research Interests
Antibodies, Autoimmunity, and Inflammatory Disease
- Ed Quadros Autoimmune Antibodies and Neural Tube Defects
- Ming Zhang Innate Immunity and Ischemia / Reperfusion Injury
- Christopher Roman Lymphocyte Development; Autoimmunity; Mechanisms of Oncogenesis
- Helen Durkin Human Allergic IgE Response; Neuronal Regulation of the Immune Response
- Josef Michl Antibodies to tumor antigens as anti-cancer agents; hybridoma technology
- William R Treem Immunology of inflammatory bowel disease, neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, and eosinophilic esophagitis.
- Ellen Ginzler Treatment strategies for lupus
- Foroozan Mokhtarian Mechanisms of Demyelination and Remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis
Genetic Diversification of Antigen Receptors and Lymphocyte Development
- Ellen Hsu Antibody Diversification and Expression
- Christopher Roman Lymphocyte Development; Autoimmunity; Mechanisms of Oncogenesis
Allergy and Asthma
- 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
- Rauno Joks Human Allergic IgE Response
- Tamar Smith-Norowitz Memory IgE and IgE anti-viral responses
Transplantation Immunology
- Allen Norin Transplantation Immunology; Cytotoxic T cells
Leukemia/Lymphoma
- Olcay Batuman Pathogenesis of the blood cancer Multiple Myeloma; Transforming Growth Factor-β Regulation in Hypoxia
- Susan Gottesman Leukemia and Lymphoma
Neuroimmunology
- Mark Stewart Mast Cells in Neurobiology
- Vahe Amassian Transcranial Stimulation and the Immune Response
- Helen Durkin neural regulation of immune responses
Infectious Agents and Infectious Disease
- Haseeb Siddiqi Host-parasite interactions and mechanisms 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
- Steve Carleton Epidemiology and Virulence of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
- Margaret Hammerschlag Immunology of Chlamydia Infection
- Stephan Kohlhoff Mechanisms of Chronic Chlamydia Infection
- John Lewis Interferons and Antiviral Responses
- William M. McCormack Epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted conditions.
- Michael H. Augenbraun Sexually transmitted infections in HIV infected persons; Hospital Epidemiology
- Jack A. DeHovitz 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 Maternal-fetal transmission of HIV
- Helen Durkin Immune responses in HIV-1 disease
- 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
- Stephen Kaminsky HIV vaccine development via the design of immunogens, via recombinant envelope structures, synthetic peptides and medicinal chemistry approaches
- 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
