Current Faculty

Deborah J. Anderson, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease
Research Areas: Mucosal immunology in genital tissues; mechanisms of HIV-1 transmission

Markus Bosmann, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Areas: Lung Injury, bacterial pneumonia and sepsis including their connections to innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions, and inflammation.

Jeff Browning, PhD

Research Professor of Microbiology and Medicine
Research Areas: Immune system interaction with stromal elements in lymphoid organs.

John H. Connor, PhD

Associate Professor of Microbiology, NEIDL Institute Investigator
Research Areas: Immune response to viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever, virus-host interactions

Jonathan Cherry, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology
Research Areas: Understanding how neuroinflammation after repetitive traumatic brain injury contributes to CTE pathogenesis

Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Areas: Mechanisms of transcriptional control of chronic inflammation linking obesity to certain cancers; including regulation of a family of chromatin regulators called bromodomain proteins

Florian Douam, PhD

Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Research Areas: Molecular mechanisms regulating human immune responses during viral infection

Rachel Fearns, PhD

Professor of Microbiology
Research Areas: Host Pathogen Interactions, Virus Molecular Biology

Rahm Gummuluru, PhD

Director, Immunology Training Program
Professor of Microbiology
Research Areas: Molecular mechanisms of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), dendritic cell interactions; Immune evasion mechanisms of HIV

Andrew J. Henderson, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Research Areas: Molecular events that regulate HIV expression

Robin Ingalls, MD

Professor of Microbiology
Research Areas: Reproductive immunology and the pathogenesis of gonococcal and chlamydia infections

Yang Jin, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine: Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Research Areas: Critical Care Medicine, chronic respiratory failure, acute lung injury/ARDS

Dennis Jones, PhD

Nancy L.R. Bucher Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Areas: Signal transduction pathways that mediate lymphangiogenesis in pathological settings

Matthew Jones, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine:
Research Areas: Host inflammatory response to acute bacterial pneumonia

Igor Kramnik, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Areas: Innate immunity, genetics; host resistance, infection, tuberculosis, lung, interferon, macrophage

Paul Maglione, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine: Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Research Areas: Primary Immunodeficiency, B Cell Biology, Cytokine Regulation, RNA Sequencing, Common Variable Immunodeficiency

Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD

Professor of Medicine:
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Research Areas: Acute lower respiratory tract infection, Cytokines, Innate immunity, Neutrophil recruitment and activation, Pneumonia, Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression

Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Research Areas: stem cell biology, iPSC, Disease modeling

Elke Mühlberger, PhD

Professor of Microbiology
Associate Director, Biomolecule Production Core, NEIDL Institute
Research Areas: host response to filovirus infection, molecular mechanisms of filovirus replication and transcription

Valentina Perissi, PhD

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Research Areas: Inflammation and metabolism, transcription, ubiquitin signaling

Ian Rifkin, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Areas: Immunological mechanisms responsible for the development of systemic autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus

Manish Sagar, MD

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Research Areas: HIV transmission pathogenesis and role of antibodies in protecting against infection

David H. Sherr, PhD

Professor of Environmental Health; Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Research Areas: Cancer immunotherapy; The role of an environmental chemical receptor (AhR) in regulatory T cell development; Mechanisms of immunosuppression mediated by environmental pollutants; The role of the AhR in breast cancer