Amnon Altman, Ph.D., and his team study T lymphocytes—white blood cells formed in the thymus that are essential in the body’s fight against infection and disease.
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.
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.
President & 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.
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 Saphire,
Ph.D.
Professor
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.
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.
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.
Associate 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.
Associate 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.
von Herrath Lab
Matthias Von Herrath,
M.D.
Professor
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation
Matthias von Herrath, M.D., is committed to clinical translation of immune-based interventions in autoimmune and metabolic diseases, the latter in particular being an exciting emerging field.