Immunology Faculty
Program Director
![Anne Satterthwaite, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/satterthwaite-anne-43600-380x380.jpg)
Associate Professor
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Tumor immunology, molecular engineering, radiation and immune responses, gastrointestinal cancers
![Todd Aguilera, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/aguilera-todd-176733-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Lung cancer microenvironment, immunotherapy
![Esra Akbay, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/akbay-esra-75752-200x200.jpg)
Regental Professor
Research Interests: The role of cytokines in the inflammatory response, forward genetic analysis of immunity
![Bruce Beutler, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/beutler-bruce-10593-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests:Postnatal development of the immune system; paracrine crosstalk between immune and epithelial cell using human organoids
![Jorge Bezzera, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/bezerra-jorge-217331-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Molecular control of inflammatory responses in the intestine, inflammation and cancer progression, regulation of NF-kB activity, COMM.D. proteins
![Ezra Burstein, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/burstein-ezra-30394-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway; NF-kappaβ signaling; innate immunity; T cell receptor signaling
![Zhijian James Chen, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/chen-james-zhijian-36703-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Somatic diversification of antigen receptor genes; repertoire characteristics as biomarkers of immune status and disease; host-pathogen interactions
![Lindsay Cowell, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/cowell-lindsay-120432-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular immunology; signal transduction; regulation of T-cell differentiation and cytokine gene expression
![David Farrar, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/farrar-david-12163-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Innate immunitt, mucosal immunolgy, immunometabolism, post-translational regulation, long noncoding RNA's, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases
![Liraz Galia, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/galia-liraz-220613-200x200.jpeg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, genetic conflicts, positive selection​, genome evolution, innate immunity, evolutionary immunology, horizontal gene transfer, poxviruses, mutation, genetic disease, genomics
![Dustin Hancks, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/hancks-dustin-173091-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Skin microbiome; sebaceous gland biology; lipidomics; skin steroid hormones; bacterial metabolism
![Tamia Harris-Tryon, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/harris-tryon-tamia-150556-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions; mucosal immunology
![Lora Hooper, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/hooper-lora-60931-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions; bacterial-fungal interactions in the gut; the role of antibiotics in modulating infection and graft-versus-host disease
![Andrew Koh, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/koh-andrew-109974-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Host-Microbe interactions, mucosal immunology, fungal immunology, inflamatory diseases
![Xin Li, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/li-xin-219415-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Transplant tolerance; regulation of macrophage function; ontogeny of macrophage function and its implications for self/nonself discrimination and autoimmunity; mechanisms of renal allograft rejections
![Christopher Lu, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/lu-christopher-14452-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Antibody effector runctions,antibody glycosylation, host microbial interactions, humoral immunity, tuberculosis
![Lennette Lu, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/lu-lenette-190629-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cerebrovascular disease, stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, immune response, innate immunity
![Panagiotis Mastorakos, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/mastorakos-panagiotis-225659-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Translational research on the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS). Specifically, focused on the impact of B cells on MS and the mouse model of MS (Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis)
![Nancy Monson, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/monson-nancy-12161-200x200.jpg)
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Immune privilege of the anterior chamber of the eye; immune surveillance of intraocular tumors; immune modulation of cancer metastases; immunobiology of corneal transplants; immunology of parasitic diseases
![Jerry Niederkorn, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/niederkorn-jerry-15322-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Neuro-Immune interactions, Intestinal Neural Circuits, Host-Microbial interactions
![Yuki Obata, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/obata-yuki-205871-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, virology, immunology, norovirus, CRISPR/Cas9 screening
![Robert Orchard, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/orchard-robert-101528-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Inflammation, tumor immunology, ubiquitionan, T cell differentation, tolerance
![Venuprasad Poojary, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/poojary-venuprasad-189208-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Influenza, COVID, Leptin, Adipose
![Kartik Rajagopalan, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/rajagopalan-kartik-81190-200x200.png)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Breast cancer, Immunotherapy, Innate Immunity, Translational Immuno-oncology
![Sangeetha Reddy, Ph.D. Sangeetha Reddy, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/reddy-sangeetha-188773-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Co-infection, herpes viruses, host-pathogen interaction, immunology, virology
![Tiffany Reese, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/reese-tiffany-155240-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Schlafen family proteins, immune responses by Sensor Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING), cancer immunotherapy, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
![Hans-Christian Reinecker, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/reinecker-hans-198181-200x200.jpeg)
Professor
Research Interests: Infectious diseases, cornea, dry eye
![Danielle Robertson, O.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/robertson-danielle-54987-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Immunology, microbiology, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of immune surveillance, and inflammation
![Andrew Sandstrom, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/sandstrom-andrew-202830-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Virus-host interactions and viral pathogenesis, antiviral immune responses, interferon effector mechanisms
![John Schoggins, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/schoggins-john-134362-380x380.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Innate immune response to intracellular pathogens, microbial pathogenesis, mucosal immunology, mycobacterium tuberculosis, and role of carbon monoxide (CO) in host-pathogen interactions
![Michael Shiloh, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/shiloh-michael-121577-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Mendelian, Genetics, Allergy, Glycosylation, Autophagy, Metabolism
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Forward genetics, Mucosal immunology, Host-microbe interactions, Innate immunity, Vesicle trafficking
![Emre Turer, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/turer-emre-110486-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Inborn errors of immunity: From discovery to restoration
![Nicolai S.C. van Oers, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/van-oers-nicolai-31839-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Immunogenomics, Tumor genomics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Machine
![Tao Wang, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/wang-tao-124777-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: T cells, Immunotherapy
![Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/wu-tuoqi-208407-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Innate immune recognition of HIV and other retroviruses; innate immune sensing of self versus non-self nucleic acids; pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome and lupus
![Nan Yan, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/yan-nan-122926-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: T cell differentiation and function, anti-viral immune response and anti-tumor immunity
![Chen Yao, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/yao-chen-206880-200x200.jpg)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: NOD-like receptors; innate immune signaling pathways; host-pathogen interaction; intestinal inflammation and cancer
![Hasan Zaki, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/zaki-hasan-143333-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Signaling and function of immune inhibitory receptors in cancer and immunity; novel immunotherapies targeting cancers and tumor microenvironment.
![Chengcheng (Alec) Zhang, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/zhang-alec-84806-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Inflammation, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling pathways and tumor immunology
![Zhenyu Zhong, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/zhong-zhenyu-178820-200x200.jpg)
Associate Members
These faculty members do not accept graduate students. They participate in teaching, co-mentoring, exam and dissertation committees, and all other program responsibilities.
Professor
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms for the pathogenesis of skin diseases.
![Kiyoshi Ariizumi, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/ariizumi-kiyoshi-10221-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Function of class II molecules of the major histocompatibility complex, including antigen presentation and its role in autoimmune disease; role of complement receptors in B-cell activation and presentation of soluble antigens
![David Karp, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/karp-david-13762-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Lymphocyte quiescence Calcium homeostasis, Autoimmunitym, Lymphoproliferative diseases, Cell competition
![Evan Nair-Gill, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/nair-gill-evan-150148-200x200.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Tumor Immunology
![Jian Qiao, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/qiao-jian-166161-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Alzheimer’s disease and genetic neurological disease
![Roger Rosenberg, M.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/rosenberg-roger-16236-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Experimental therapies for autoimmune disorders, Immune tolerance, Molecular and cellular markers of autoimmunity
![Olaf Stuve, M.D., Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/stuve-olaf-58631-200x200.jpg)
Professor
Research Interests: Genetic variability in the immune system, molecular genetics of susceptibility to autoimmune diseases
![Edward (Ward) Wakeland, Ph.D.](/education/graduate-school/programs/assets/faculty/wakeland-edward-36900-200x200.jpg)