About the Center

Holly Algood, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease

Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Mucosal immunology including pathogen-host interactions, the microbiome and the long term impacts of chronic inflammation at the mucosa

Alexander Bick, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Division of Genetic Medicine

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Clonal hematopoiesis, genetics and inflammation

Rachel Henry Bonami, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

B cell, T cell, Autoimmunity, Type 1 Diabetes, Myositis, Sjogren's Syndrome, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced Autoimmunity

Ruben Martinez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Immunogenetics, primary immunodeficiencies, inborn errors of Immunity and infectious diseases

Jim Connelly, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, immunodeficiency, and inborn errors of immunity

Sebastian Joyce, Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Dorothy B. and Theodore R. Austin Chair in Pathology

Antigen presentation and recognition by immune cells

John Karijolich, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Biochemistry

Nucleic acid sensing, self vs non-self discrimination, oncogenic viruses, RNA-based mechanisms of antiviral and anti-tumor immunity, epigenomics, CRISPR screens

Annet Kirabo, D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology

Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Cardiovascular disease, Hypertension, Dendritic cells, Neo-antigens, Isolevuglandins

Tae Kon Kim, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology

Checkpoint immunotherapy and leukemias

Janet Markle, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Inborn errors of immunity, Molecular and cellular immunology, pediatric immune-mediated diseases

Amy S. Major, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine

Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Immunological mechanisms of autoimmunity in atherosclerosis

Denis Mogilenko, Ph.D.

Assisstant Professor of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Immunometabolism, Molecular Biology, Systems Biology, Computational Biology, Cancer Biology, Obesity, Aging

Dawn Newcomb, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Role of sex hormones in inflammation in asthma

Kristin L. Patrick, Ph.D.

Director, Division of Genetic Medicine

Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Post-transcriptional regulation of innate immune gene expression, effects of RNA processing and RNA binding proteins on the antimicrobial and inflammatory responses in macrophages, understanding the evolution of intracellular pathogens to manipulate of host gene expression pathways

Mary Philip, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Cancer, tumor immunology, T cells, epigenetics, autoimmunity, differentiation, single-cell analysis, flow cytometry

Heather H. Pua, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Lung, miRNA, exRNA (extracellular RNA), extracellular vesicles, allergy, asthma, Th2

Robert O. Watson, Ph.D., M.P.H

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Understanding how cellular metabolism controls innate immunity and inflammation, Leveraging Mycobacterium tuberculosis to study how mutations in mitochondrial genes and pathogen virulence factors alter macrophage metabolism and polarize immune responses

John. T. Wilson, Ph. D.

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Polymer science, nanotechnology, immunobiology, colloid and surface engineering, cell engineering, and drug delivery