Faculty and Research

			Carl Atkinson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Immunology, Innate immunity, complement, transplantation, lung disease, cigarette smoke.

			Eric Bartee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dr. Bartee is studying Myxoma virus as a potential virotherapeutic against multiple myeloma and further exploration of novel cellular response to combination cytokine treatment using the Myxoma virus.

			Beichu Guo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Molecular and cellular mechanisms for the therapeutic efficacy of type I interferon (IFN) in cancer and autoimmune diseases.

			Azizul Haque, Ph.D. Associate Professor HLA class II, lymphoma, melanoma, glioblastoma, prostate cancer, T cells, autoimmunity.

			Christina (Voelkel-)Johnson, M.S. Ph.D. Associate Professor Cell death, sphingolipids, oxidative stress, gene delivery.

			Wei Jiang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor HIV Pathogenesis, Toll-like Receptor and Innate Immunity, Sex Differences in Human Immune Responses, and Lupus Pathogenesis.

			Laura Kasman, Ph.D. Associate Professor Graduate Program Director for Microbiology and Immunology

			Zihai Li, M.D., Ph.D. Professor & Chairman Cancer immunotherapy, innate immunity, tolerance, stem cell biology.

			Bei Liu, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor Cancer immunotherapy, stem cell-based cancer vaccine and innate immunity.

			Xiang Liu, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Sphingolipids, acid ceramidase, ceramide, cancer and cancer therapy.

			Harold May, Ph.D. Professor Environmental microbiology, microbial physiology, microbial electrochemistry, bioenergy and bioremediation.

			James S. Norris, Ph.D. Professor Sphingolipids, pancreatic/prostate cancer, acid ceramidase, mitochondriotropic ceramides, lysomotropic acid ceramidase inhibitors.

			Janardan Pandey, Ph.D. Professor Allotypes, Fcgamma receptor genes, ADCC, humoral immunity.

			Chrystal Paulos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Novel T-cell immunotherapies for patients with advanced cancer.

			Michael Schmidt, Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chairman Director, Office of Special Programs Nosocomial infection control, biosafety.

			Natalie Sutkowski, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Human endogenous retroviruses, herpesviruses, superantigens, human monoclonals and cancer.

			Stephen Tomlinson, Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chair for Research & Faculty Development Complement inhibitors in inflammatory and malignant disease.

			Chenthamarakshan Vasu, Ph.D. Associate Professor T cell tolerance, mucosal immunity, targeted therapies for autoimmunity, transplant rejection and tumors.

			Gabriel Virella, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Immunology of atherosclerosis.

			Cynthia F. Wright Ph.D. Associate Professor Viral gene expression and virus host interactions.

			Jennifer D. Wu, Ph. D. Associate Professor Immune editing and inflammation in cancer.


			Xue-Zhong Yu, M.D. Professor GVHD, GVL, T-cell Biology

Joint Faculty Members
Narendra Banik, PhD Professor of Medicine Department of Neurosciences

Kenneth Chavin, MD, PhD Professor Surgery

David Cole, MD, FACS Professor and Chairman Surgery

Sebastiano Gattoni-Celli, MD Professor Radiation Oncology

Gary Gilkeson, MD Professor of Medicine Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine Research

Joseph John, MD Division of Infectious Diseases VA Medical Center

J. Michael Kilby, MD Professor of Medicine

Keith Kirkwood, DDS, PhD Associate Dean for Research Associate Professor and Chair, Craniofacial Biology

Margaret Markiewicz, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine

Shikhar Mehrotra, PhD Associate Professor Surgery

Mark Rubinstein, PhD Assistant Professor Surgery

Sally Self, MD Professor Pathology and Lab Medicine

Caroline Westwater, PhD Assistant Professor Craniofacial Biology

Rita Young, PhD Professor Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Yong-Mei Zhang, PhD Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Emeritus Professors
Edward Balish, PhD
Armand Glassman, MD
Tom Higerd, PhD
Gary Paddock, PhD
Gabriel Virella, MD, PhD

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