Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology

Primary Faculty

Roger Abounader

Abounader, Roger

Basic and translational brain tumor research

Agaisse, Hervé

Genetic approaches, cellular and molecular biology of intracellular pathogen infection

Bouton, Amy H.

Signaling Pathways and Breast Cancer

Cliffe, Anna

Herpes Simplex Virus Infection of Neurons

Criss, Alison K.

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Neisserial pathogenesis

Derré, Isabelle

Host/pathogen Interaction - Chlamydia Infection

Dudley, Andrew

Tumor microenvironment and mechanisms of tumor neovascularization

Michael Elliott

Elliott, Michael R.

Macrophage effector functions in inflammation and immunotherapy

Engel, Daniel A.

Drug Discovery and Molecular Biology of Pathogenic RNA viruses: Ebola, SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and Zika

Victor Engelhard

Engelhard, Victor H.

Identification of MHC-restricted tumor antigens / Control of T cell homing to tumors / Tertiary lymphoid structures and intratumoral immunity

Erickson, Loren D.

Immune mechanisms of pathogenic antibody production in allergy and autoimmunity

Ewald, Sarah

Innate immunity, chronic disease, host-parasite interactions, Toxoplasma gondii, proteomics

Fox, Jay W.

Basement Membrane Structure and Metalloproteinases

Mariano Garcia-Blanco

Garcia-Blanco, Mariano A.

RNA-protein interactions in antiviral immunity and autoimmune diseases.

Gioeli, Daniel

Signal transduction in cancer cells

Hahn, Young S.

Immune regulation for HCV infection and chronic liver inflammation

Marie-Louise Hammarskjold

Hammarskjöld, Marie-Louise

Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation and the Molecular Biology of Human Retroviruses

Kashatus, David F

The Role of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission in Tumorigenesis.

Kedes, Dean H.

Human Herpes virus associated with malignancy, including Kaposi's Sarcoma

Melissa Kendall

Kendall, Melissa M.

Bacterial cell signaling, host-pathogen interactions, intestinal pathogens

Park, Kwon-Sik

Mechanisms of tissue/organ homeostasis and tumorigeensis

Pemberton, Lucy F.

Nuclear Transport in Chromatin Assembly and Transcriptional Regulation

Rekosh, David M.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Gene Expression; Human Endogenous Viruses; SARS-CoV-2 Protein Trafficking; Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation

Melanie Rutkowski

Rutkowski, Melanie

Influence of commensal microbes on immune homeostasis, anti-tumor immunity, and metastasis

Zong, Hui

Early detection, cancer prevention, and tumor microenvironment