Immunology Faculty
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
| Faculty Name | Research Summary |
|---|---|
| Alper, Chester | The Human Major Histocompatibility Complex, Immune Function, and Disease |
| Alt, Frederick | Molecular genetic, biochemical and genomic analysis of mechanisms underlying lymphocyte development, antigen receptor gene rearrangements, and oncogenic chromosomal translocations. |
| Alter, Galit | The role of NK cells in tissues |
| Altfeld, Marcus | Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses in HIV-1 Infection |
| Anderson, Paul | Cytotoxic Lymphocytes |
| Aster, Jon | The Role of Notch Signaling in Lymphoid Neoplasia |
| Austen, K. Frank | Innate and adaptive immune inflammation in allergic and asthmatic models |
| Barouch, Dan | My laboratory focuses on studying the immunology and virology of HIV-1 infection and developing novel vaccine strategies. |
| Behar, Samuel | Immunity to Tuberculosis |
| Benichou, Gilles | Induction and Regulation of Antigen-specific T Cell Responses |
| Benoist, Christophe | T-cell Development in Animal Models of Autoimmunity Disease |
| Blumberg, Richard | Microbial-epithelial-immune cell interactions in mucosal tissues |
| Boussiotis, Vicki | Molecular and signaling pathways regulating productive T-cell responses and T-cell energy/ tolerance |
| Boyce, Joshua | The role of cysteinyl leukotrienes and nucleotide receptors in control of pulmonary allergic immunity |
| Brenner, Michael | T-Lymphocyte Recognition and Adhesion |
| Campbell, James | Tissue-specific lymphocyte homing and diversity |
| Cantor, Harvey | Development and function of T cells, their subsets and distinctive markers |
| Carroll, Michael | The Role of Complement in the Immune Response |
| Chowdhury, Dipanjan | Downregulating DNA Repair: Phosphatases & MicroRNAs |
| Clark, Rachael | The study of human tissue resident T cells |
| Dimitroff, Charles | Investigating the Role of Lectin - Carbohydrate Interactions in T cell Trafficking and Differentiation and in Tumor Immune Evasion |
| Dorf, Martin | Immunoregulation |
| Dranoff, Glenn | Development of Cancer Vaccines |
| Ebert, Benjamin | Research in hematology and oncology |
| Exley, Mark | NKT and Other Immune Cell Subsets in Anti-Tumor & Anti-Viral Immunity |
| Fiebiger, Edda | Molecular mechanisms of antigen presentation |
| Garrett, Wendy | Interplay between the innate immune system and gut microbial communities |
| Geha, Raif | Molecular Basis of Immunodeficiencies; Immunological and molecular basis of Atopic dermatitis |
| Georgopoulos, Katia | Transcription Factors in Lymphocyte Commitment and Differentiation |
| Goldfeld, Anne | Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Gene Regulation in the Immunopathogenesis of AIDS and TB |
| Hacohen, Nir | Dendritic Cells and the Initiation of Immune Reponses; Genetic Analysis using Genome-Wide Mammalian RNAi Libraries |
| Haining, Nick | Our goal is to understand how functional memory T cells are formed, and why protective T cell immunity fails to develop against chronic viral infection and cancer. |
| Hemler, Martin | Function and Regulation of Cellular Adhesion Mechanisms |
| Ho, I-Cheng | Regulation of T Lymphocyte Activation and Differentiation |
| Horwitz, Bruce | The Role of the Transcription Factor NF-kB in Regulating Innate Inflammatory Responses |
| Iliopoulos, Dimitrios | Identification of Novel Molecular Circuits that Link Inflammation to Cancer |
| Johnson, Robert | AIDS Immunopathogenesis and Immune Reconstitution |
| Junger, Wolfgang | Cellular ATP release ad purinergic signaling in immune cell regulation |
| Kagan, Jonathan | Toll-like Receptors and Innate Immunity |
| Kanaoka, Yoshihide | The Role of Cysteinyl Leukotrienes and their Receptors in Pulmonary Inflammation and Fibrosis |
| Katz, Howard | Regulation of Immune and Inflammatory Responses by the Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Family |
| Kelley, Vicki | Mechanisms of Autoimmune Disease |
| Khoury, Samia | Immunopathogenesis & regulation of immune response in EAE |
| Kieff, Elliott | Molecular Biology of Epstein Barr Virus Infection and Transformation of B Lymphocytes |
| Kinet, Jean-Pierre | Biology and Function of Immunoreceptors |
| Kobayashi, Koichi | Innate Immune Signaling Pathways of TLR and NLR Proteins |
| Kobzik, Lester | Lung host defense against inhaled pathogens, allergens and pollutants |
| Koralnik, Igor | Immunopathogenesis of JC virus-associated brain diseases |
| Kuchroo, Vijay | Regulation of Autoimmune T Cell Responses |
| Letvin, Norman | Immunopathogenesis of Viral Diseases |
| Lichtman, Andrew | Molecular Regulation of T Cell Cytokine Production and T Cell Interactions with the Blood Vessel Wall |
| Lieberman, Judy | Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes |
| Look , A. Thomas | Genetic Models of Leukemogenesis |
| Luo, Hongbo | Signal transduction in innate immunity |
| Luscinskas, Francis | Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Immunology of Leukocyte-endothelial Adhesion |
| Luster, Andrew | Chemokine and lipid chemoattractants in immune cell trafficking in normal physiology and disease |
| Mathis, Diane | T-cell differentiation, tolerance and autoimmunity |
| Mayadas, Tanya | Elucidate the molecular basis of neutrophil function in autoimmune disease and understand endothelial dependent permeability |
| Means, Terry | Understanding the mechanisms of pathogen-sensing by the innate immune system |
| Mempel, Thorsten | Immune Cell Interactions Controlling T Cell Effector Function |
| Moody, D. Branch | Cytotoxic Lymphocytes |
| Mora, Jorge | Tissue-specific leukocyte trafficking in health and disease |
| Nicholson-Weller, Anne | Biology and Chemistry of Complement Problems |
| Notarangelo, Luigi | |
| Novina, Carl | The biology of microRNAs and their dysregulation in cancers |
| Oettinger, Marjorie | Molecular Biology of V(D)J Recombination |
| Pillai, Shiv | Assembly and Function of pre-B Cell-fate and B Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors |
| Pittet, Mikael | Responses mediated by innate and adaptive immune cells in cancer and other inflammatory disorders |
| Plenge, Robert | Human genetics to understand dysregulation (focus on autoimmunity) |
| Reinherz, Ellis | Human T cell Antigen Receptor; Human Lymphocyte Differentiation Antigens; TCR; Thymic Development; Protective Immunity; HIV-I; T cell vaccines |
| Rollins, Barrett | Control of Leukocyte Trafficking and the Immune Response By Chemokines and Other Cytokines |
| Rossi, Derrick | Cellular reprogramming, hematopoietic stem cell biology and aging. |
| Ruprecht, Ruth | Retroviral Pathogenesis; Host-Virus Interactions Including Virus-Induced Perturbation of the Developing Immune System; the Nature of Protective Anti-Retroviral Immune Responses in Primates |
| Sachs, David | Topics in Transplantation Biology |
| Scadden, David | Stem Cells and the Stem Cell Niche |
| Schreiber, Stuart | Chemical biology and genome biology: relating genetic variation in humans to the efficacy of small-molecule drugs |
| Schur, Peter | Rheumatic Diseases |
| Seed, Brian | Molecular Biology of Receptor Transduction in the Immune System |
| Sharpe, Arlene | Regulation of T-cell Mediated Immune Response |
| Snapper, Scott | Signal Transduction, Host-Microbial Interactions and Immunology |
| Sodroski, Joseph | Pathogenesis of Human Retroviruses |
| Springer, Timothy | Molecular Basis of Cell Adhesion and Migration |
| Starnbach, Michael | T-Lymphocyte Responses to Bacterial Pathogens |
| Stein-Streilein, Joan | Lymphoid Organs |
| Stevens, Richard | Molecular Aspects of Mast Cells—Mediated Immune Responses |
| Streeck, Hendrik | CD4 T cell function and development in viral infections |
| Strom, Terry | We are interested in immune tolerance, particularly in settings of autoimmunity and transplantation. |
| Strominger, Jack | Immunology of Pregnancy, Tolerance and Multiple Sclerosis |
| Stuart, Lynda | Innate immunity and host-pathogen interactions |
| Tenen, Daniel | Gene regulation in normal and leukemic stem cells |
| Terhorst, Cornelis | Molecular Aspects of Lymphocyte Interactions |
| Tsokos, George | Immune Cell Signaling, Gene Transcription and Tissue Injury in Lupus |
| Turka, Laurence | T Cell Immunology - tolerance, transplantation, autoimmunity |
| Turley, Shannon | Antigen Processing and Presentation by Dendritic Cells in Autoimmunity and Cancer |
| Umetsu, Dale | We study mmunoregulatory mechanisms at mucosal surfaces, including the lung and gut, affecting the development of inflammation, allergy, asthma or peripheral tolerance in mice and humans. |
| von Andrian, Ulrich | Molecular Mechanisms of Leukocyte Trafficking |
| von Boehmer, Harald | Lymphocyte Development, Immunoregulation, Auto-Immunity, Tumor Suppressor miRNA. |
| Vyas, Jatin | The molecular mechanism of immunity to fungal pathogens. |
| Wagers, Amy | Biology and Function of Tissue-Specific Stem Cells |
| Wagner, Denisa | Cell Adhesion in Vascular Biology and Innate Immunity |
| Walker, Bruce | Immune control of HIV and implications for vaccine development |
| Walker, W. Allan | Development of Mucosal Immunologic Functions |
| Weiner, Howard | Basic and Clinical Mechanisms of Autoimmunity |
| Weller, Peter | Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Eosinophil and Other Leukocyte Involvement in Allergic Flammation |
| Winau, Florian | Mechanisms of Antigen Presentation and Cellular Immunology |
| Woolf, Clifford | Chronic and Inflammatory Pain, Neuronal Survival and Regeneration |
| Wucherpfennig, Kai | Basic Mechanisms of T cell Mediated Autoimmune Diseases |
| Xavier, Ramnik | Systems approaches to innate and adaptive immunity; Functional genomics of complex disease genetics |
| Yunis, Edmond | Biology of Histocompatibility Systems in Man and Experimental Animals; Immunology of Aging |