91ɫƵ Center for Immunology Faculty
Host Defense
Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Microbial Pathogenesis
Ravit Boger, MD
Chief and Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Disease
Kenneth L. Brockman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Microbial Pathogenesis, Bacterial Gene Regulation, Host-Microbe Interactions
John A. Corbett, PhD
Professor and Chair
Benjamin Gantner, PhD
Assistant Professor
Anna H. Huppler, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology
John R. Kirby, PhD
Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director, Microbiome, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Microbiome Research
Microbial Signal Transduction
Robert Lochhead, PhD
Associate Professor; Secondary Faculty in Medicine (Rheumatology)
Lyme disease, inflammation and autoimmunity
Michelle Riehle, PhD
Associate Professor
Malaria Vector Biology, Genetics of Susceptibility, Microbiome and Immunity
Nita H. Salzman, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Research
Antimicrobial Peptides, host-microbe interactions in the GI tract, microbiota in health and disease
Scott S. Terhune, PhD
Professor
Human Cytomegalovirus Host-Cell Protein Interactions During Infection
Rodney E. Willoughby, MD
Professor
Immune Disorders
Xiao Chen, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Yi-Guang Chen, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Microbiology & Immunology
Immunogenetics of type 1 diabetes
Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Center for Infectious Disease Research
Bacterial Pathogenesis
John A. Corbett, PhD
Professor and Chair
Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Immune regulation and homeostasis
Martin J. Hessner, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology); Director, Max McGee Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes
The Microbiome in the Development and Progression of Type 1 Diabetes
Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD
Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center; G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research
Dr. Hillard was named Associate Dean for Research in November 2015 after serving eight months as co-Interim Senior Associate Dean for Research. She has served as director of the Neuroscience Research Center since its inception in 2010. She was also Inaugural Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Training Program from 1996-2010. As a highly active researcher, Dr. Hillard’s laboratory is primarily focused on the pharmacology and biochemistry of the cannabinoids and endocannabinoids.
Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Therapeutic potential of modifying the inflammatory response after spinal cord injury
Qing-Song Liu, PhD
Professor
Timothy B. Meier, PhD
Professor
Neuroimaging and blood-based markers of sport-related concussion and mild traumatic brain injury
Daochun Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Tumor heterogeneity, Cancer stem cells, Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated peripheral nerve and central nerve system tumors, and data mining in biological big data
Demin Wang, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor
Signal Regulation of B Lymphopoiesis
Calvin B. Williams, MD, PhD
Children's Research Institute
Immuno-Oncology
Pradeep Chaluvally-Raghavan, PhD
Associate Professor
Brian T. Craig, MD
Assistant Professor
William R. Drobyski, MD
Mariette C. and Philip W. Orth/Tom Anderson Chair of Oncology; Co-Leader, Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Cancer Center; Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology
Inflammation and Immunology, Transplantation Biology
Michael B. Dwinell, PhD
Professor; Founding Director, Center for Immunology; Director, Bobbie Nick Voss Laboratory for Colon Cancer Research; Hanis-Stepka-Rettig Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Cancer Metastasis, Tumor Microenvironment, Mucosal Inflammation
Bryon D. Johnson, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology/BMT) and Microbiology & Immunology
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
Tyce J. Kearl, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
David A. Margolis, MD
Chair, Professor
Jeffrey A. Medin, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology); Secondary Faculty
Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sunila Pradeep, PhD
Associate Professor
Sabarinath Venniyil Radhakrishnan, MD
Assistant Professor
Nirav N. Shah, MD
Associate Professor
Bronwen E Shaw, MD, PhD
Professor; Scientific Director CIBMTR
Julie-An M. Talano, MD
Professor
Sarah B. White, MD, MS, FSIR, FCIRSE
Associate Dean
Stuart J. Wong, MD
Center Director, Professor
Yongxia Wu, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Graft-versus-Host Disease, Cancer Immunotherapy
Xue-Zhong Yu, MBA, MS, MD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director of Basic Sciences in the 91ɫƵ Cancer Center
Tumor Immunology, Cancer Immunotherapy, Graft-versus-Host Disease
Anthony E. Zamora, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology
Molecular Immunology
Pui-Ying (Penny) Lam, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chemo-optogenetic/Photopharmacological tool development, cellular and molecular mechanisms of immunity in the central nervous system
Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD
Professor and Gardetto Chair for Immunology and Immunotherapy; Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute
NK cell development and function
James Verbsky, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Rheumatology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Medical Director, Clinical Immunology Research Laboratory; Medical Director, Clinical and Translational Research
Immune regulation, T regulatory cells, role of IL-2 and IL-10 in immune regulation, mechanisms of suppression of immune responses by T regulatory cells
Brian F. Volkman, PhD
Director, Program in Chemical Biology; Professor, Biochemistry
Hartmut Weiler, PhD
Associate Professor
Renren Wen, PhD
Associate Professor; Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute
T and B cell Activation and Signaling
Fenlu Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Affiliate Members
Ehab L. Atallah, MD
Professor
John A. Auchampach, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair
Musaddiq Awan, MD
Associate Professor
Clinical and research interests include the treatment of head and neck and skin cancers as well as the use of stereotactic radiosurgery for the management of spine, abdominal and liver metastases, and translational and clinical components.
Kathleen Boyle, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
William B. Campbell, PhD
Professor
Bill Cashdollar, PhD
Director, Research Core Labs & Facilities, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Adjunct Faculty, Microbiology & Immunology
Anita D'Souza, MD
Associate Chief, Research, Division of Hematology/Oncology; Professor of Medicine
Allison D. Ebert, PhD
Associate Professor; Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program
Neurodegenerative diseases, both understanding the molecular basis for the disease progression and finding effective experimental therapies
Ashraf El-Meanawy, MD, MS, PhD, FASN
Professor
Nashaat Gerges, PhD, BPharm
Professor, Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity
Matthew R. Hodges, PhD, FAPS
Professor and Eminent Scholar; Director of Graduate Studies
Wenzhou Hong, PhD
Assistant Professor
Roger H. Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor; Director of Programmatic Grants and Strategic Partnership Development, Cancer Center
Sailaja Kamaraju, MD
Associate Professor
Joohyun Kim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Jennifer M. Knight, MD, MS
Professor
Wei Liu, PhD
Joseph F. Heil, Jr. Endowed Chair of Molecular Oncogenesis; Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program, Cancer Center; Director, Structural Biology Shared Resource (SBSR), Cancer Center; Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
George E. MacKinnon III, PhD, MS, RPh, FASHP, FNAP
Founding Dean and Professor
Adriano Marchese, PhD
Professor; Program Director, Biochemistry Graduate Program; Director, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences (IDP)
Meera Mohan, MD, MS, FACP
Assistant Professor
Pablo Nakagawa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Christopher M. Olsen, PhD
Associate Professor
Carolyn Oxencis, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences
Bin Pan, PhD
Associate Professor
Ann K. Rosenthal, MD, FACP
Associate Dean, Professor
Associate Chief of Staff/Research, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center; Associate Dean for Research/MCW
Daisy Sahoo, PhD
Dean, School of Graduate Studies; Women in Science Endowed Professor; Secondary Faculty in Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Toxicology
Curt D. Sigmund, PhD
James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology; Chair of Physiology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center
Roy Silverstein, MD
Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Medicine; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology
Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of thrombosis, atherosclerosis and angiogenesis with focus on role of the type 2 scavenger receptor CD36