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Microbiology & Immunology (MI) Program Training Faculty

  • Seena Ajit, PhD

    Professor
    Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
     Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of neuropathic and inflammatory pain, epigenetic regulation, microRNA expression and regulation, biomarkers

  • Carol Artlett, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Inflammasome signaling; IL-1 mediated fibrosis; collagen export from the endoplasmic reticulum; miR-155; small molecule therapeutic development

  • Joris Beld, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Chemical biology and microbiology of secondary metabolism in various organisms

  • James M. Burns Jr., PhD

    Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Development of protective immunity against malaria induced by immunization with defined subunit vaccines targeting pre-erythrocytic stage, blood-stage and sexual stage parasites.

  • Alison J. Carey, MD*

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology, Pediatrics
     Research Interests: Mechanisms of age-specific host-pathogen responses, respiratory viral infections, infant immune system development, type I interferon response

  • Mary Ann Comunale, EdD, MS

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Scientific: Proteomic and glycoproteomic analysis to identify early markers of disease, analytical and clinical assay development.
    Educational: Innovative learning technologies including gamification and game based learning.

  • Will Dampier, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Exploring patterns of HIV genetic variation, its influences on disease progression and impacts on excision therapy

  • Garth D. Ehrlich, PhD, FAAAS, FAAM

    Professor of Microbiology & Immunology; Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology, Otolaryngology
     Research Interests: Use of large-scale comparative genomic technologies to explore the molecular pathogenesis of chronic infectious diseases and the human genetics of susceptibility and resistance to infection.

  • Elias El Haddad, PhD

    Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology; MD/PhD Program Director
    Department: Medicine: Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Human immunology, systems biology, infectious disease pathogenesis and vaccinology

  • Peter Gaskill, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
     Research Interests: HIV, drug abuse, neuroimmunity, neurotransmission, macrophage immunology, dopamine, serotonin, catecholamines

  • Donald C. Hall Jr. (DJ), PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Computational drug design and structural bioinformatics; preclinical drug development; bacterial multi-drug tolerance and persister cells; stringent response mechanisms; non-thermal plasma (NTP) as an antimicrobial strategy; molecular diagnostics; novel antimicrobial materials

  • Jennifer Hope, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Immune responses to cancer, chronic virus infection; T cell differentiation; T cell development

  • Pooja Jain, PhD, MS

    Professor; Co-Director, Master of Science in Immunology Program
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Retrovirus (HIV/HTLV)-associated cancer and neuroinflammation, myeloid/dendritic cell-based immunotherapy, extracellular vesicles

  • Hangjun Ke, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: pH regulation of the cytosol and other subcellular compartments; bioenergetics of malaria parasites; mitochondrial dynamics, morphology and function

  • Zachary Klase, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
     Research Interests: Molecular neuropathogenesis of HIV-1, epigenetic control of transcription and microRNA involvement in viral diseases

  • Sandhya Kortagere, PhD

    Professor; Vice Dean of Research and Innovation
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Biased signaling of dopamine D3 receptor agonists; developing symptomatic and disease-modifying therapeutics for Parkinson鈥檚 disease; etiology of mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson鈥檚 disease; role of dopamine receptors in neurocognitive impairment in HIV and other neuronal infections

  • Fred Krebs, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Plasma medicine (biomedical applications of non-thermal plasma), with an emphasis on developing preventative and immunotherapeutic approaches to combat human viral pathogens.

  • Michele Kutzler, PhD

    Associate Dean for Faculty; Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
    Department: Medicine: Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Translational research in the area of vaccinology, immunology and infectious disease

  • Eugenia Lo, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology, parasite genomics and evolution, host-parasite interactions, global health

  • Patrick Loll, PhD

    Professor
    Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
     Research Interests: X-ray crystallography and protein biophysics; integral membrane protein structure; antibiotic resistance; mechanism of drug action; protein homeostasis

  • Joshua Chang Mell, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Using genomics to investigate the mechanism, consequences and evolution of genetic recombination, especially in pathogenic bacteria.

  • Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD

    Professor & Chair
    Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
     Research Interests: HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and drug abuse, chemokine-based therapeutics, neuroprotective pathways in neuroinflammation

  • Vandana Miller, MD*

    Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Development of non-thermal plasma for modulation of immune function for treatment of precancerous skin lesions, cancers, infectious diseases and wounds

  • Joanne Morrisey

    Research Instructor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology

  • Sonia Navas-Martin, PhD

    Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Innate immunity, toll-like receptors, neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, neurodegenerative diseases, blood brain barrier, microglia, astrocytes, neurons, macrophages, viral encephlalitis, demyelination, molecular pathogenesis of neurotropic RNA viruses, cellular senesce, microRNAs, animal models, therapeutic targets

  • Michael Nonnemacher, PhD

    associate dean for graduate biomedical research education; Director, Division of Biomedical Sciences; Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: HIV-1 genetic variation in disease progression; role of viral accessory proteins in pathogenesis; gene-editing strategies for HIV cure research; HIV/HBV coinfection in cancer; impact of HIV-1 and drugs of abuse on the CNS

  • Amy Cernetich Ott, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Development and testing of multi-stage, multi-antigen vaccines targeting Plasmodium parasites.

  • Gabriele Romano, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
     Research Interests: Cancer drug resistance; tumor suppressor genes; immune evasion; chemokine signaling; computational biology; functional genomics; HIV and cancer; nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery

  • Akhil Vaidya, PhD

    Distinguished Professor; Professor; Director, Center for Molecular Parasitology
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Understanding basic molecular functioning of malaria parasites with a view to developing new antimalarial drugs.

  • Brian Wigdahl, PhD

    Professor and Chair; Director, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease
    Department: Microbiology & Immunology
     Research Interests: Immunopathogenesis and neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 and HTLV-I infection; transcriptional regulation of retroviral expression; viral sequence diversity and correlations to disease; development of microbicidal agents

 
Program Training Faculty From Other Drexel Colleges/Schools
 

Peter Deak, PhD

Peter Deak, PhD

College/School: Engineering
Research Interests: Designing nano-formulations to modulate innate immune cells as potential therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and transplantation rejection; diagnostics for autoinflammatory diseases; targeted adjuvants to generate antigen specific immunity of chronic viral infections like HIV and hepatitis.

Xiao Huang, PhD

Xiao Huang, PhD

College/School: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Research Interests: Development of innovative engineering platforms and analytical methods to advance understanding and control of immunotherapies.

Christopher Rodell, PhD

Christopher Rodell, PhD

College/School: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Research Interests: Macrophage-biomaterial interactions, drug delivery systems and chronic wound healing.

Kara Spiller, PhD

Kara Spiller, PhD

College/School: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Research Interests: Protein interactions in health and disease, structure-based antagonism of HIV-1 Env, recombinant protein/peptidomimetic/small molecule inhibitor design and mechanism of action.

 
Program Resource Faculty
 

Irwin Chaiken, PhD: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Irwin Chaiken, PhD

Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Protein interactions in health and disease, structure-based antagonism of HIV-1 Env, recombinant protein/peptidomimetic/small molecule inhibitor design and mechanism of action.

Bradford Jameson, PhD

Bradford Jameson, PhD

Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Medical and graduate student education; previous research focused on structure-based drug design studies for development of immune-regulatory compounds

Stephen Jennings, PhD

Stephen Jennings, PhD

Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Optimal protection from HSV-1 infection provided by interactions between innate and acquired immune responses.

Julio Martin-Garcia, PhD

Julio Martin-Garcia, PhD

Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Macrophage tropism and neurotropism of HIV-1; cellular senescence during HIV-1 infection and HIV-1 neuropathogenesis; innate immune responses to HIV-1 infection in macrophages, microglia and dendritic cells; microRNAs and HIV-1.

Elise Mosser, PhD: Microbiology & Immunology

Elise Mosser, PhD

Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Innovative biomedical graduate education, with a specific focus on online course design and course development.

Pamela Norton, PhD

Pamela Norton, PhD

Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Characterization of glycoproteomic biomarkers for hepatocellular carcinoma, induction of novel immune responses by agents that alter N-glycan processing.

Vanessa Pirrone, PhD

Vanessa Pirrone, PhD

Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Impact of HIV infection on colorectal cancer, and the role of the HIV-1 Nef protein; impact of age and HIV/HCV coinfection on HIV-1 replication, pathogenesis and immune activation profiles.

 
Affiliate Training Faculty
 


Fox Chase Cancer Center


Baruch S. Blumberg Institute


Baruch S. Blumberg Institute


Lankenau Institute for Medical Research


Fox Chase Cancer Center


Baruch S. Blumberg Institute

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Alison Carey and Ogan Kumova (Carey Lab) from the Microbiology and Immunology Program at 91制片厂.