Ph.D. in Biomedical Science: Area of Concentration
Immunology
Faculty and Their Research Interests
The Immunology Graduate Program has 21 faculty members
whose interests span the cellular, molecular and clinical aspects of
immunology. The faculty participates in the Program in one or more of
the following: (i) provides a laboratory for research work in the
graduate thesis and/or laboratory rotation, (ii) teaching in didactic
coursework, (iii) provide guidance, assistance and/or advice in student
seminars and/or advisory committees.
*Program Directors
Anthony T. Vella*, Associate Professor of Immunology, Ph.D., Cornell
University. T-cell immunity; costimulation; adjuvants and cytokines.
Adam J. Adler*,
Associate Professor of Immunology, B.S., McGill University, Ph.D.,
Columbia University. Our lab studies mechanisms of T cell tolerization
to peripheral self-antigens, as well as the relationship between
tolerance and tumor immunity.
Hector Leo Aguila, Assistant Professor of Immunology. Ph.D., Albert
Einstein College of Medicine. Hematopoiesis and bone marrow
microenvironment; lymphoid cell development; stem cell biology.
Linda Cauley,
Assistant Professor of Immunology, Ph.D. Oxford University, England. T-cell memory and respiratory
virus infections.
Robert B. Clark,
Associate Professor of Immunology, M.D., Stanford, 1975. Autoimmunity;
immune regulation; regulatory T cells.
Robert E. Cone, Professor of
Immunology, B.S., Brooklyn College; M.S., Florida State University;
Ph.D., University of Michigan. Ocular immunology; regulatory T cells;
neuroimmunology.
Irving
Goldschneider, Professor of Immunology, B.A., M.D., University of
Pennsylvania. T and B cell development; acquired thymic tolerance;
hybrid cytokines.
Chi-Kuang
Huang, Associate Professor of Immunology, B.S., National Taiwan
University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Signal transduction in
stimulated neutrophil and lymphocytes, roles of protein kinase and
phosphoproteins in cell activation; chemotaxis.
Leo
Lefrancois, Professor of Immunology, B.S., Colorado State
University; Ph.D., Wake Forest University. T-cell activation and
migration, T-cell memory; immune response to infection; tolerance;
vaccines.
Zihai (Zack) Li,
Associate Professor of Immunology and Medical Oncology, M.D., Henan Medical College, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Member:
Executive Committee of the Department of Immunology and the Neag
Comprehensive Cancer Center. Tumor immunology, tolerance and innate
immunity, roles of heat shock proteins and Toll-like receptors in
hematopoiesis and in the functions of various immune cells in the
mammalian system.
Joseph Lorenzo, Professor of Medicine, B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, M.D. State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.
Relationships between bone-resorbing osteoblasts and immune cells.
Bijay
Mukherji, Professor of Medicine, M.D., Calcutta University. Tumor
immunology and cancer vaccines, tumor-specific antigens.
James
O'Rourke, Professor of Immunology, M.Sc., University of Pennsylvania;
M.D., Georgetown University. Vascular biology, tissue plasminogen
activator synthesis, transport and release.
Lynn
Puddington, Associate Professor of Immunology and Medicine, B.S., Iowa State
University, Ph.D., Wake Forest University. Allergic asthma; neonatal
immunity and tolerance; developmental immunology.
Justin D. Radolf, Professor of Medicine and Center for Microbial
Pathogenesis, M.D., University of California-San Francisco. Molecular
pathogenesis and immunobiology of spirochetal infections.
T.V. Rajan,
Professor of Immunology, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
M.D., All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Parasitology; filariasisl
molecular immunoparasitology.
Pramod K.
Srivastava, Professor of Medicine, Ph.D., Center for Cellular &
Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India. Heat shock proteins as peptide
chaperones, roles in antigen presentation and applications in
immunotherapy of cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders.
Roger S. Thrall,
Professor of Immunology, B.A., Eastern Connecticut State
College; Ph.D., Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin.
Immune cells, pulmonary inflammation.
Stephen K. Wikel,
Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology; Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
The characterization of the complex cellular and molecular immunology of
the tick-host-pathogen interface.
Carol A. Wu,
Assistant Professor of Immunology, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University. Viral
respiratory infections and asthma.
Richard A. Zeff,
Associate Professor of Immunology, A.B., Temple University; Ph.D., Rush
University. Major histocompatibility complex; antigen processing and
presentation.
IMAGES ABOVE: T
cell clustering on antigen-presenting cells in the spleen following
Listeria monocytogenes infection. Low (left & center) and high (right)
power confocal microscopy images showing interaction of transferred
antigen-specific CD8 T cells (green) with CD11c+ dendritic cells (red).
B cells are labeled blue in left panel and transferred cells are blue in
right panel. (Courtesy of K. Khanna). |
