Members Overview
Below is a list of all Center for Human Immunobiology members. View individual profiles of our faculty members — with publication and contact information, research and clinical specialties and more — via the links below.
Sumagin, Ronen
Associate Professor of Pathology (Experimental Pathology)
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In the case of bacterial infection and mucosal injury neutrophil transepithelial migration is essential for host defense and tissue homeostasis, however, it may also lead to detrimental inflammation, ... [more]
Tan, Bruce K
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and Medicine (Allergy and Immunology)
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Sinusitis, chronic sinusitis, nasal polyps, nasal tumors, smell and taste disturbances, minimally invasive approaches to the skull base, inflammation, mechanisms of smell loss from inflammation, thera... [more]
Thorp, Edward Benjamin
Professor of Pathology (Experimental Pathology)
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Cell and Molecular Immunology and Cardiovascular Disease.
Vassar, Robert J
Professor of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology) and Cell and Developmental Biology
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Our research focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease. In particular, we investigate the beta-secretase enzyme BACE1, which initiates the production of the beta-amyloid pept... [more]
Verghese, Priya S
Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Visvabharathy, Lavanya
Research Assistant Professor of Neurology (Neuro-infectious Disease and Global Neurology)
Walunas, Theresa L.
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Microbiology-Immunology and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)
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I received my PhD in immunology from the University of Chicago where I discovered the function of CTLA-4, the first checkpoint inhibitor. Following my MS in computer science, I worked in microbial gen... [more]
Wang, Chyung-Ru
Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
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My research focuses on the immune function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class Ib molecules in normal and diseased states. My lab is interested in understanding how MHC class Ib-restricted... [more]
Watterson, Daniel Martin
Professor of Pharmacology
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The elucidation of eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, the study of signal transduction pathway perturbation in disease or injury, and the utilization of this knowledgebase for rational drug disc... [more]
Wechsler, Joshua B
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition) and Medicine (Allergy and Immunology)
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As a physician-scientist, my long-term objective is to define immunologic mechanisms of gastrointestinal inflammation that drive clinical phenotype/outcome. This is key to identifying novel therapeuti... [more]