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The faculty are based in an active medical center dedicated to patient care, to the support of clinical, biomedical and basic biological research and to education in allergy, basic and clinical immunology, and microbiology. The following is a list of current active faculty and their primary research interests, as well as faculty in the Allergy and Immunology clinical program of the Department.
Lena Al-Harthi, PhD, George Washington University; (Professor): HIV neuro- and immuno-pathogenesis; Role of Wnt/ b -catenin signaling in HIV disease.
Edward Barker, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago (Associate Professor): Mechanisms of HIV immune evasion; Natural killer cells.
Linda Baum, PhD, Michigan State University (Associate Professor): Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity in HIV disease.
James W. Bremer, PhD, Baylor University; (Professor): Clinical virology; Pathogenesis of HIV infection.
Alison Finnegan, PhD, Tufts University; (Professor): Regulation of the immune response; Cellular immunology; Autoimmune diseases.
Diana D. Huang, PhD, University of Michigan; (Assistant Professor): HIV virology; Diagnostic tests for HIV infection.
Sau-Ping Kwan, PhD, University of Cincinnati; (Professor): Molecular genetics of immune deficiency diseases; Autism disorders.
Alan L. Landay, PhD, University of Pittsburgh; (Professor and Chair): Immune response to HIV infection; Clinical markers of HIV infection.
Thomas F. Lint, PhD, Tulane University; (Professor): Mechanisms of complement-mediated cell lysis; Complement and HIV; Parkinson's disease.
Nell Lurain, PhD, Loyola University of Chicago; (Associate Professor): Cytomegalovirus drug resistance and pathogenesis.
Amanda Marzo, PhD, University of Western Australia (Assistant Professor): Mechanisms that govern the induction and maintenance of memory T cells.
James N. Moy, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago; (Associate Professor): Regulation of atopic disease.
Janet Plate, PhD, Duke University; (Professor): Cytokine and cytokine receptor gene expression in leukemia; Molecular biology of interleukin receptors.
Sasha Shafikhani, PhD, University of California, Berkley; (Assistant Professor): Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis ; Host response to infection.
Gregory T. Spear, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago; (Professor): Role of the complement system; Innate immunity and antibodies in HIV infection.
Larry L. Thomas, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago; (Professor and Graduate Program Director): Role of neutrophils in severe asthma; Role of neutrophils in HIV infection.
David Williams, PhD, University of Illinois (Associate Professor): Biochemistry and molecular biology of Schistosoma mansoni ; Drug development. |
