{"id":10,"date":"2007-10-16T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/itp-faculty-and-their-research\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:52:17","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/immunology\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deborah J. Anderson, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease
\nResearch Areas:\u00a0<\/strong>Mucosal immunology in genital tissues; mechanisms of HIV-1 transmission<\/p>\n

Markus Bosmann, MD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Medicine
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Lung Injury, bacterial pneumonia and sepsis including their connections to innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions, and inflammation.<\/p>\n

Jeff Browning, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Research Professor of Microbiology and Medicine
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Immune system interaction with stromal elements in lymphoid organs.<\/p>\n

John H. Connor, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Microbiology, NEIDL Institute Investigator
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Immune response to viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever, virus-host interactions<\/p>\n

Jonathan Cherry, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Pathology
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Understanding how neuroinflammation after repetitive traumatic brain injury contributes to CTE pathogenesis<\/span><\/p>\n

Gerald Denis, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Medicine
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Mechanisms of transcriptional control of chronic inflammation linking obesity to certain cancers; including regulation of a family of chromatin regulators called bromodomain proteins<\/p>\n

Florian Douam, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Microbiology
\n<\/span>Research Areas:<\/strong> Molecular mechanisms regulating human immune responses during viral infection<\/p>\n

Rachel Fearns, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Microbiology
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Host Pathogen Interactions, Virus Molecular Biology<\/p>\n

Rahm Gummuluru, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Director, Immunology Training Program
\nProfessor of Microbiology
\nResearch Areas: <\/strong>Molecular mechanisms of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), dendritic cell interactions; Immune evasion mechanisms of HIV<\/p>\n

Andrew J. Henderson, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Medicine
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Molecular events that regulate HIV expression<\/p>\n

Robin Ingalls, MD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Microbiology
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Reproductive immunology and the pathogenesis of gonococcal and chlamydia infections<\/p>\n

Yang Jin, MD, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Medicine: Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
\nResearch Areas<\/strong>:\u00a0Critical Care Medicine, chronic respiratory failure, acute lung injury\/ARDS<\/span><\/p>\n

Dennis Jones, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Nancy L.R. Bucher Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
\nResearch Areas: <\/strong>Signal transduction pathways that mediate lymphangiogenesis in pathological settings<\/p>\n

Matthew Jones, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine:
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong>\u00a0Host inflammatory response to acute bacterial pneumonia<\/p>\n

Igor Kramnik, MD, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Medicine
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong>\u00a0Innate immunity, genetics; host resistance, infection, tuberculosis, lung, interferon, macrophage<\/p>\n

Paul Maglione, MD, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine: Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
\nResearch Areas<\/strong>:\u00a0Primary Immunodeficiency, B Cell Biology, Cytokine Regulation, RNA Sequencing, Common Variable Immunodeficiency<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Medicine:
\nPulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine<\/span><\/span>
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Acute lower respiratory tract infection, Cytokines, Innate immunity, Neutrophil recruitment and activation, Pneumonia, Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression<\/p>\n

Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> stem cell biology, iPSC, Disease modeling<\/p>\n

Elke M\u00fchlberger, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Microbiology
\nAssociate Director, Biomolecule Production Core, NEIDL Institute
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> host response to filovirus infection, molecular mechanisms of filovirus replication and transcription<\/p>\n

Valentina Perissi, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong>\u00a0Inflammation and metabolism, transcription, ubiquitin signaling<\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Rifkin, MD, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Medicine
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Immunological mechanisms responsible for the development of systemic autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus<\/p>\n

Manish Sagar, MD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> HIV transmission pathogenesis and role of antibodies in protecting against infection<\/p>\n

David H. Sherr, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Environmental Health; Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> 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<\/p>\n

Trevor Siggers, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Biology ”
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Systems Biology and Gene Regulation in the Immune System<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer Snyder-Cappione, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Microbiology<\/span>
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Immune cell exhaustion; iNKT cell differentiation; ex vivo cellular functional profiling<\/p>\n

Andrew Taylor, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Ophthalmology
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Immune privilege in the eye. Neuropeptides\u00a0as inhibitors of immune responses. Regulatory T cells<\/p>\n

Lee M. Wetzler, MD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
\nResearch Areas:<\/strong> Vaccine development; microbial immunity and pathogenesis; effect of bacterial products on eukaryotic cells<\/p>\n

Wilson Wong, PhD<\/a><\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
\nResearch Areas: <\/strong>Engineering genetic circuits to improve the efficacy and safety of adoptive T cell therapy.<\/p>\n

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