Secondary Faculty
Ravit Boger, MD
Chief and Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Disease
Yi-Guang Chen, PhD
Associate 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
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
Provost, Executive Vice President, Medical School of Wisconsin; Dean, School of Medicine; Professor
Tammy Lyn Kindel, MD, PhD
Associate Professor; Director of Adult and Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program; Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program
Jennifer Knight, MD, MS, FACLP
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD
Assistant 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
Jessica Olson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Community Health
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, Center for Microbiome Research; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; CRI Research Unit Leader for Infection, Inflammation and Immunology Research Unit; Director, GI Clinical Laboratory
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
Associate 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
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
