Ferhat Ay, Ph.D., works to understand gene regulation in complex organisms and diseases.
Ay Lab
Ferhat Ay,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute Leadership Asst. Prof. of Computational Biology, Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Benedict Lab
Christopher Benedict,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Christopher Benedict, Ph.D., studies the strategies that viruses use to escape detection by our immune system.
Cheroutre Lab
Hilde Cheroutre,
Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Hilde Cheroutre, Ph.D., and her team study the development, function, and regulation of T lymphocytes, a type of white blood cells.
Crotty Lab
Shane Crotty,
Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Shane Crotty, Ph.D., and his team study immunity against infectious diseases. They investigate how the immune system remembers infections and vaccines.
Grifoni Lab
Alba Grifoni,
Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Alba Grifoni, Ph.D., studies immune response to viral infections through a combination of bioinformatics and experimental approaches. Her work is important for understanding how T cell responses recognize a range of pathogens, including Coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-2 and other subgenera), Orthopoxviruses (Mpox and Vaccinia), and other emerging pathogens.
Hedrick Lab
Catherine Hedrick,
Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Catherine "Lynn" Hedrick, Ph.D., and her lab members study and target monocytes to aid in the prevention of cancer. The lab also investigates neutrophil heterogeneity in cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Hogan Lab
Patrick Hogan,
Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Patrick Hogan, Ph.D., studies cells at the nano level – seeking to understand how protein-protein interactions on the submicroscopic scale can have gargantuan impacts on human health and disease.
Kawakami Lab
Toshiaki Kawakami,
M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation
Toshiaki Kawakami, M.D., Ph.D., and his team study allergic diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergy, and atopic dermatitis.
Kronenberg Lab
Mitchell Kronenberg,
Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., and his team study T cells – white blood cells responsible for recognizing and responding to foreign invaders, such as microbes.
Lindestam Arlehamn Lab
Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn,
Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
My laboratory is focused on understanding T cell immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other infections, as well as self-antigens
Myers Lab Laboratory for Immunochemical Circuits
Sam Myers,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Immunochemical Circuits
Samuel Myers, Ph.D., studies the signaling circuits that drive the behavior of individual immune cells and ultimately orchestrate systemic immune responses.
Peters Lab
Bjoern Peters,
Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Bjoern Peters, Ph.D., and his lab members are focused on the development of computational tools to address fundamental questions in immunology.
Saphire Lab
Erica Ollmann Saphire,
Ph.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D., studies, at the molecular level, how and why viruses are pathogenic. This work provides the roadmap for medical defense.
Schmiedel Lab
Benjamin Schmiedel,
Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Schmiedel is dedicated to shedding light on the genetic mechanisms driving the pathogenesis of human diseases. His research is revealing molecular features regulating immune cell function to enhance our understanding and advance disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Schoenberger Lab
Stephen Schoenberger,
Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Stephen Schoenberger, Ph.D., is focused on achieving a mechanistic understanding of the generation and regulation of T cell responses in the context of in vivo infection and tumor development.
Sette Lab
Alessandro Sette,
Dr.Biol.Sci.
Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Alessandro Sette, Dr. Biol. Sci., defines in chemical terms the specific structures (epitopes) that the immune system recognizes and uses this knowledge to measure and understand immune responses.
Seumois Lab
Gregory Seumois,
Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Director of Immunogenomics
Greg Seumois, Ph.D., and his team, have developed an innovative and highly translational set of genomics and molecular tools to discover, characterize and investigate the role of new types of immune cells in relation with asthma severity and respiratory allergies.
Sharma Lab
Sonia Sharma,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Sonia Sharma, Ph.D., and her lab members lead unbiased, genome-scale approaches to unravel innate immunity, the body’s early immune response to microbial pathogens and neoplastic cells.
Shresta Lab
Sujan Shresta,
Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Sujan Shresta, Ph.D., and her team study the immunology and virology of mosquito-borne human pathogens such as dengue virus and Zika virus.
Vijayanand Lab
Pandurangan Vijayanand,
M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
William K. Bowes Distinguished Professor, Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Pandurangan Vijayanand, M.D., Ph.D., and his lab members employ genomics tools to understand, diagnose and treat pulmonary disease such as asthma, lung cancer and infectious diseases, including the novel coronavirus.
