Faculty

William R. Green, Chair, and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1977.

Cell-mediated immunity, especially cytolytic T cells, to retrovirus-induced leukemia or immunodeficiency; regulation of, and escape from, viral and tumor immunity.

Susana N. Asin, Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D.

University of Cordoba, 1992. Cytokine and chemokine regulation of HIV-1 infection and replication in mucosal and submucosal cell populations from the female reproductive tract and in peripheral blood cells.Coinfection by sexually transmitted pathogens and HIV infection in the female reproductive tract.

Richard J. Barth, Jr., Associate Professor of Surgery; M.D., Harvard, 1985.

Tumor immunotherapy.

Brent Berwin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Constance E. Brinckerhoff, Professor of Medicine, and of Biochemistry; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1968.

Cell and molecular biology of connective tissue degradation in rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.

Christopher M. Burns, Assistant Professor of Medicine; M.D., Albany Medical College, 1982.

Murine lupus; CD40-CD40L interactions in autoimmunity.

David J. Bzik, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Penn State, 1983.

Genetics of the Apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii; vaccine and antimicrobial design; tumor targeting models.

Jacqueline Y. Channon-Smith, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, M.D. Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and of Medicine

Ruth Connor, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor

Ruth W. Craig Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Ph.D., SUNY Roswell Park, 1984. Molecular mechanisms involved in the induction of differentiation and apoptosis in myelomonocytic cells.

Mardi A. Crane-Godreau Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 2004. Influence of tobacco smoke exposure on changes in mucosal and innate immune function.

Joyce A. DeLeo, Professor & Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Professor of Anesthesiology; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1988.

Neuropharmacology; neuroimmunology; mechanisms leading to chronic pain with a focus on spinal neuroimmune responses, central neuroimmune activation, and neuroinflammation, using molecular, cellular, and in vivo behavior pharmacological approaches.

Richard I. Enelow, Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, M.D., Boston, 1983. Immunopathologic responses to respiratory virus infection.

Patricia A. Ernst, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Genetics; Ph.D., UCLA, 1997. Hematopoiesis, lymphocyte development and leukemia; epigenetic gene regulation.

Marc S. Ernstoff, Professor of Medicine; M.D., NYU, 1978.

Tumor immunology of prostate cancer, melanoma, and renal-cell carcinoma.

Camilo E. Fadul, Associate Professor of Medicine; M.D., University del Rosario (Colombia), 1979.

Immunology and immunotherapy of tumors of the central nervous system.

Michael W. Fanger, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and of Medicine; Ph.D., Yale, 1967.

Immunology and immunotherapy; HIV infection of mucosal cells; tumor-associated antigens and targeted vaccines.

Roy A. Fava, Research Associate Professor of Medicine; Ph.D., Vermont, 1982.

Growth factors; TGF/b; VPF/VEGF; arthritis; angiogenesis; inflammation; cytokines; lymphotoxin; bone growth and repair.

Steven N. Fiering, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Stanford, 1990.

Chromatin-based regulation of the mammalian genome; transcriptional regulation of the b-globin locus; transgenic mice.

James D. Gorham, Associate Professor of Pathology, and of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., 1991, M.D., 1992, NYU.

Immune effects of TGF-b development. Hepatic Immunology.

William R. Green, Chair, and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1977.

Cell-mediated immunity, especially cytolytic T cells, to retrovirus-induced leukemia or immunodeficiency; regulation of, and escape from, viral and tumor immunity.

Paul M. Guyre, Professor of Physiology; Ph.D., New Hampshire, 1979.

Mechanisms of steroid regulation of immune and inflammatory processes. Human Fc receptors; phagocytosis of antibody-coated particulate antigens and antigen processing; autoimmune diseases.

William F. Hickey, Professor of Pathology, and of Microbiology and Immunology; M.D., Vermont, 1977.

Development of inflammation in the nervous system; autoimmune diseases; immunology of the central nervous system.

Henry N. Higgs, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996.

Roles of lymphocyte microvilli and actin cytoskeleton in immune function and metastasis.

Alexandra L. Howell, Research Associate Professor of Medicine, and of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Texas Health Science Center, 1983.

Immunology; myeloid cell killing of HIV and HIV-infected cells; bispecific antibody targeting of HIV; mechanisms of neutrophil-mediated cytotoxicity; targeted antigen vaccines for HIV; HIV-1 infection of cells and tissues in the female reproductive tract.

Lloyd H. Kasper, Professor of Medicine, and of Microbiology and Immunology; M.D., Rush, 1975.

Autoimmunity, experimental inflammatory bowel disease and multiple sclerosis.

John Kelly, M.D. Assistant Professsor of Medicine, M.B. NUI 1988, M.D. NUI, 2003

Stat5: role in T-cell homeostasis and oncogenesis.

David A. Leib, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Pathogenesis and biology of herpes simplex virus (HSV)

Peter M. Morganelli, Research Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Dartmouth, 1989.

Immune mechanisms in atherosclerosis; macrophage and lipoprotein metabolism; human IgG Fc receptors.

Ralph C. Nichols, Research Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology George Washington University, 1991.

Randolph J. Noelle, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Albany Medical College, 1980.

B-lymphocyte activation; T-helper cell action; CD40 signaling, B cell memory and plasma development autoimmunity.

George A. O'Toole, Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994.

Jeffrey Parsonnet, Associate Professor of Medicine, and of Microbiology; M.D., NYU, 1979.

Immunopathogenesis of septic shock and toxic shock syndrome, including role of cytokines and immune mechanisms.

William F.C. Rigby, Professor of Medicine, and of Microbiology and Immunology; M.D., Harvard, 1979.

Posttranscriptional regulation of cytokine and CD154 (CD40) gene expression, Tristetraprolin function in mRNA turnover. Von Hippel-Lindau regulation of mRNA stability.

Charles Sentman, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology; Ph.D., Texas, 1990.

Natural killer (NK) cell recognition mechanisms and the role of NK cells as a part of the immune defenses.

Karen A. Skorupski, Research Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1988.

Transcriptional regulation of bacterial virulence gene expression; identification of new targets for antimicrobial design.

Ronald K. Taylor, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., Maryland, 1984.

Bacterial pathogenesis; colonization mechanisms; virulence gene regulation; vaccine and antimicrobial design.

Mary Jo Turk, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D. Purdu University, 2001

Mechanisms of Concomitant Tumor Immunity

Edward J. Usherwood, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D. Cambridge. 1995.

Interaction between murine gammaherpesvirus 68 and the immune system.

Matthew P. Vincenti, Research Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1992.

Interleukin-1-dependent signal transduction and activation of matrix metalloproteinase gene expression.

C. Fordham von Reyn, Professor of Medicine, and of Infectious Diseases; M.D., Harvard, 1971.

Vaccines for HIV-associated tuberculosis, mycobacterial skin testing; AIDS; non-tuberculous mycobacteria.

Hillary D. White, Research Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 1979.

Mucosal and tumor immunology in the human and murine female reproductive tract, with a focus on the regulation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes by reproduction tract sex steroid and stress hormones.

Charles R. Wira, Professor of Physiology; Ph.D., Dartmouth, 1970.

Role of sex hormones in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity in the human and rodent female reproductive tract.

Mark P. Yeager, Professor of Anesthesiology, and of Medicine; M.D., McGill, 1974.

Glucocorticoid control of the human systemic inflammatory response. Non-linear modelling of systemic sepsis in humans.