UVA School of Medicine

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

Bender, Timothy P.

Regulation of gene expression during lymphocyte development

Bouton, Amy H.

Signaling Pathways and Breast Cancer

David Brautigan

Brautigan, David L.

Protein Phosphorylation in Cell Signaling

Brown, Jay C.

Structure and Assembly of the Herpes Simplex Virus Capsid.

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

Engel, Daniel A.

Drug Discovery and Molecular Biology of Pathogenic RNA viruses: Influenza, Dengue and Ebola.

Victor Engelhard

Engelhard, Victor H.

Identification of MHC-restricted tumor antigens / Control of T cell homing to tumors / Role of lymphatic endothelial cells in regulating immunity and self-tolerance

Erickson, Loren D.

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of B lymphocyte function; Genetic susceptibility in systemic lupus erythematosus; Immunotherapeutics in the treatment of B cell disorders

Ewald, Sarah

Innate immunity, chronic disease, host-parasite interactions

Fox, Jay W.

Basement Membrane Structure and Metalloproteinases

Gioeli, Daniel

Signal transduction in cancer cells

Hahn, Young S.

Immune regulation for HCV infection and chronic liver inflammation

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

Lorenz, Ulrike M

Involvement of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 in signal transduction pathways

Park, Kwon-Sik

Mechanisms of organ development and homeostasis and tumor development

Pemberton, Lucy F.

Nuclear Transport in Chromatin Assembly and Transcriptional Regulation

Kodi Ravichandran

Ravichandran, Kodi S.

Apoptotic cell clearance mechanisms in health and disease

Rekosh, David M.

Human Immunodeficiency; Virus Gene Expression

Melanie Rutkowski

Rutkowski, Melanie

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

Smith, M. Mitchell

Functional Genomics of Histones, Chromatin, and Protein Acetylation Signaling in Cancer and the Cell Cycle

Weber, Michael J.

Targeting Cell Signaling for Cancer Therapy.

Zong, Hui

Early detection, cancer prevention, and tumor microenvironment