Research Collaborate Lab Hall

Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Immunology Faculty

Host Defense

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Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program

Microbial Pathogenesis

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Ravit Boger, MD

Chief and Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Disease

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Kenneth L. Brockman, PhD

Assistant Professor

Microbial Pathogenesis, Bacterial Gene Regulation, Host-Microbe Interactions

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John A. Corbett, PhD

Professor and Chair

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Benjamin Gantner, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Amy Hudson, PhD

Professor

Viral Immune Evasion

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Anna H. Huppler, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology

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John R. Kirby, PhD

Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director, Microbiome, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Microbiome Research

Microbial Signal Transduction

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Robert Lochhead, PhD

Assistant Professor; Secondary Faculty in Medicine (Rheumatology)

Lyme disease, inflammation and autoimmunity

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Michelle Riehle, PhD

Assistant Professor

Malaria Vector Biology, Genetics of Susceptibility, Microbiome and Immunity

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Nita H. Salzman, MD, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Research

Antimicrobial Peptides, host-microbe interactions in the GI tract, microbiota in health and disease

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Vera Tarakanova, PhD

Professor

Virus-associated Tumorigenesis and Virus-host Interactions

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Scott S. Terhune, PhD

Professor

Human Cytomegalovirus Host-Cell Protein Interactions During Infection

Immune Disorders

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Xiao Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Yi-Guang Chen, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Microbiology & Immunology

Immunogenetics of type 1 diabetes

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Jenifer Coburn, PhD

Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Center for Infectious Disease Research

Bacterial Pathogenesis

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John A. Corbett, PhD

Professor and Chair

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Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD

Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Immune regulation and homeostasis

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Martin J. Hessner, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology); Director, Max McGee Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes

The Microbiome in the Development and Progression of Type 1 Diabetes

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Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD

Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center; G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research

Dr. Hillard was named Associate Dean for Research in November 2015 after serving eight months as co-Interim Senior Associate Dean for Research. She has served as director of the Neuroscience Research Center since its inception in 2010. She was also Inaugural Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Training Program from 1996-2010. As a highly active researcher, Dr. Hillard’s laboratory is primarily focused on the pharmacology and biochemistry of the cannabinoids and endocannabinoids.

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Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Therapeutic potential of modifying the inflammatory response after spinal cord injury

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Qing-Song Liu, PhD

Professor

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Timothy B. Meier, PhD

Associate Professor

Neuroimaging and blood-based markers of sport-related concussion and mild traumatic brain injury

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Ahmed Zayed Obeidat, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty: MS/Neuroimmunology

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Daochun Sun, PhD

Assistant Professor

Tumor heterogeneity, Cancer stem cells, Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated peripheral nerve and central nerve system tumors, and data mining in biological big data

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Demin Wang, PhD

Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor

Signal Regulation of B Lymphopoiesis

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Calvin B. Williams, MD, PhD

Children's Research Institute

Immuno-Oncology

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Pradeep Chaluvally-Raghavan, PhD

Associate Professor

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Brian T. Craig, MD

Assistant Professor

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William R. Drobyski, MD

Mariette C. and Philip W. Orth/Tom Anderson Chair of Oncology; Co-Leader, Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Cancer Center; Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology

Inflammation and Immunology, Transplantation Biology

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Michael B. Dwinell, PhD

Professor; Founding Director, Center for Immunology; Director, Bobbie Nick Voss Laboratory for Colon Cancer Research; Hanis-Stepka-Rettig Endowed Chair in Cancer Research

Cancer Metastasis, Tumor Microenvironment, Mucosal Inflammation

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Bryon D. Johnson, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology/BMT) and Microbiology & Immunology

Cancer immunology and immunotherapy

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Dev Karan, PhD

Associate Professor

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Tyce J. Kearl, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

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David A. Margolis, MD

Chair, Professor

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Jeffrey A. Medin, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology); Secondary Faculty

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Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Sunila Pradeep, PhD

Associate Professor

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Nirav N. Shah, MD

Associate Professor

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Bronwen E Shaw, MD, PhD

Professor; Scientific Director CIBMTR

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Julie-An M. Talano, MD

Professor

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Sarah B. White, MD, MS, FSIR

Associate Dean, Vice Chair, Professor

Co-Vice Chair of Imaging Research

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Stuart J. Wong, MD

Center Director, Professor

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Yongxia Wu, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Graft-versus-Host Disease, Cancer Immunotherapy

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Xue-Zhong Yu, MBA, MS, MD

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director of Basic Sciences in the MCW Cancer Center

Tumor Immunology, Cancer Immunotherapy, Graft-versus-Host Disease

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Anthony E. Zamora, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology

Molecular Immunology

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Pui-Ying (Penny) Lam, PhD

Assistant Professor

Chemo-optogenetic/Photopharmacological tool development, cellular and molecular mechanisms of immunity in the central nervous system

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Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD

Professor and Gardetto Chair for Immunology and Immunotherapy; Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute

NK cell development and function

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James Verbsky, MD, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Rheumatology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Medical Director, Clinical Immunology Research Laboratory; Medical Director, Clinical and Translational Research

Immune regulation, T regulatory cells, role of IL-2 and IL-10 in immune regulation, mechanisms of suppression of immune responses by T regulatory cells

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Brian F. Volkman, PhD

Director, Program in Chemical Biology; Professor, Biochemistry

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Hartmut Weiler, PhD

Associate Professor

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Renren Wen, PhD

Associate Professor; Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute

T and B cell Activation and Signaling

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Fenlu Zhu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Affiliate Members

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John A. Auchampach, PhD

Professor and Vice-Chair

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Musaddiq Awan, MD

Assistant Professor

Clinical and research interests include the treatment of head and neck and skin cancers as well as the use of stereotactic radiosurgery for the management of spine, abdominal and liver metastases, and translational and clinical components.

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Kathleen Boyle, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor

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Bill Cashdollar, PhD

Director, Research Core Labs & Facilities, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Adjunct Faculty, Microbiology & Immunology

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Anita D'Souza, MD

Associate Professor

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Allison D. Ebert, PhD

Associate Professor; Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program

Neurodegenerative diseases, both understanding the molecular basis for the disease progression and finding effective experimental therapies

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Nashaat Gerges, PhD, BPharm

Professor, Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

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Wenzhou Hong, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Roger H. Johnson, PhD

Associate Professor; Director of Programmatic Grants and Strategic Partnership Development, Cancer Center

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Sailaja Kamaraju, MD

Associate Professor

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Joohyun Kim, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Jennifer M. Knight, MD, MS

Associate Professor

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Wei Liu, PhD

Joseph F. Heil, Jr. Endowed Chair of Molecular Oncogenesis Associate Professor

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Meera Mohan, MD, MS, FACP

Assistant Professor

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Pablo Nakagawa, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Christopher M. Olsen, PhD

Associate Professor

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Carolyn Oxencis, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP

Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Clinical Sciences

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Bin Pan, PhD

Associate Professor

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Ann K. Rosenthal, MD, FACP

Associate Dean, Chief, Professor

Associate Chief of Staff/Research, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center; Associate Dean for Research/Medical College of Wisconsin

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Daisy Sahoo, PhD

Dean, School of Graduate Studies; Women in Science Endowed Professor; Secondary Faculty in Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Toxicology

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Curt D. Sigmund, PhD

James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology; Chair of Physiology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center

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Roy Silverstein, MD

Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Medicine; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology

Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of thrombosis, atherosclerosis and angiogenesis with focus on role of the type 2 scavenger receptor CD36

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Pippa M. Simpson, PhD

Professor and Director, Section Chief for Quantitative Health Sciences

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Jonathan Thompson, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

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Joseph Zenga, MD

Assistant Professor & Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology & Reconstruction