Immunology Graduate Program

Faculty

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 Director; **Associate Director

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**, Associate 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.

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.

Kamal Khanna, Assistant Professor of Immunology, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Identifying the factors and the role they play in controlling the anatomy of a primary and secondary immune response in the hopes of explicating the underlying mechanisms that guide the complex movement of T cells during infection and recall responses in lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues.

Leo Lefrançois, 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, Adjunct 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.

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.

Pramod K. Srivastava, Professor of Medicine, Ph.D., Center for Cellular and 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.

Anthony T. Vella, Associate Professor of Immunology, Ph.D., Cornell University. T-cell immunity; costimulation; adjuvants and cytokines.

Richard A. Zeff, Professor of Immunology, A.B., Temple University; Ph.D., Rush University. Major histocompatibility complex; antigen processing and presentation.

Carol A. Wu The recent and untimely death of Dr. Carol Wu has greatly saddened us. Carol was the Associate Director of the Immunology Graduate Program as well as a highly valued colleague, collaborator and friend to many people in this program and throughout the Health Center. A tribute to her life and work can be found here.