Secondary Faculty
Ravit Boger, MD
Chief and Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Disease
Yi-Guang Chen, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Microbiology & Immunology
Immunogenetics of type 1 diabetes
Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Center for Infectious Disease Research
Bacterial Pathogenesis
Michael Deininger, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
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
Kelly J. Henrickson, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Midwest Respiratory Virus Program
Negative strand respiratory virus molecular epidemiology and natural history
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
Anna H. Huppler, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology
Bryon D. Johnson, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology/BMT) and Microbiology & Immunology
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
Nikki Johnston, PhD
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences and Microbiology & Immunology
Extraesophageal reflux
Dev Karan, PhD
Associate Professor
Joseph E. Kerschner, MD
Julia A. Uihlein, MA, Dean of the School of Medicine, Provost and Executive Vice President
Tammy Lyn Kindel, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Jennifer Knight, MD, MS, FACLP
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Therapeutic potential of modifying the inflammatory response after spinal cord injury
Roy M. Long, PhD
Associate Professor; Assistant Dean for Graduate Recruitment
RNA Localization in Yeast
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
Debra K. Newman, PhD
Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology; Senior Investigator at Versiti Blood Research Institute; Adjunct Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Immunology
Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Jessica Olson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Community Health
Director, Inclusive Learning and Innovation
John Routes, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Allergy, Asthma & Immunology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Chief, Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Primary Immunodeficiencies
Nita H. Salzman, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Director, Center for Microbiome Research
Antimicrobial Peptides, host-microbe interactions in the GI tract, microbiota in health and disease
Andrey Sorokin, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Nephrology) and Microbiology & Immunology
Cell signaling as related to pathobiology of kidney diseases
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
Calvin B. Williams, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Dean of Research; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Chief Scientific Officer, Children's Wisconsin Research Institute; Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology; Vice Chair, Research, Pediatrics
T cell development, Regulatory T cell biology, Mucosal tolerance
Anthony E. Zamora, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology
Adjunct Faculty
Kenneth P. Allen, DVM, DACLAM
Staff Veterinarian; Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Veterinary Medicine
Bill Cashdollar, PhD
Director, Research Core Labs & Facilities, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Adjunct Faculty, Microbiology & Immunology
Sandra L. McLellan, PhD
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences
Environmental Microbial Populations
Philip N. Redlich, MD, PhD
Gerald L. Schmitz Professor of Surgery; Professor, Surgery (General Surgery) and Microbiology & Immunology; Chief, Division of Education, Department of Surgery
Medical Student Education, Surgery Resident Education
Fritz Sieber, PhD
Professor (with tenure), Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology/BMT) and Microbiology & Immunology
Selenium-based experimental therapeutics
