Sergei Atamas, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Medicine
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Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology
Phone: 410-605-7000 x6468 or
410-706-6474
Research: Immune and inflammatory mechanisms of tissue fibrosis
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Laure Aurelian, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-3895
Research: Ongoing studies are focused on understanding the molecular mechanism of H11 induced apoptosis, its regulation and its role in melanoma development.
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Abdu Azad, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-3335
Research: Our long-term goal is to assess the importance of rickettsial genes encoding virulence-associated proteins and their use in immunoprotection against pathogenic rickettsiae.
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Eileen Barry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine/Center for Vaccine Development
Phone: 410-706-3702
Research: The research in my laboratory is focused on the development of live, attenuated bacterial strains which can be used as vaccines delivered by the oral route.
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Patrik Bavoil, Ph.D.
Director, Infectious Diseases & Immunology Track
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-6789
Research: Chlamydia genomics; Molecular pathogenesis of Chlamydia species and chlamydiaphages
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Tom Blanchard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
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Division of Gastroenterology
Phone: 410-706-1772
Research: My primary interests involve immune regulation and response in the gastrointestinal tract where the body is in continuous contact with commensal and pathogenic bacteria.
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Nicholas Carbonetti, Ph.D.
Graduate Program Director, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-7677
Research: Bordetella pertussis infection of the respiratory tract and the role of pertussis toxin in immunosuppression
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Gregory Carey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-8191
Research: We are investigating protein kinases in the PI3K/Akt and Ras signaling pathways and exploring ways to specifically activate protein phosphatases for tumor cell eradication and to better understand bet
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Jan Cerny, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-7114
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Alan Cross, M.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine
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Center for Vaccine Development
Phone: (410) 328-2565
Research: Development of bacterial vaccines; role of Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in innate immunity; host defense mechanisms against bacterial infections; role of sialidase (neuraminidase)
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Shiladitya DasSarma, Ph.D.
Molecular Medicine Track Leader, Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Professor
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
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Center of Marine Biotechnology
Phone: 410-234-8847
Research: Genomics, post-genomics and biotechnology of salt-loving microorganisms
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Wendy Davidson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-8188
Research: The major focus of my laboratory is to better understand the link between systemic autoimmunity and B cell lymphomagenesis.
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Anthony DeVico, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Human Virology
Phone: 410-706-4680
Research: neutralizing immune response against the co-receptor binding domain of HIV-1 gp120
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Michael Donnenberg, M.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine
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Division of Infectious Diseases
Phone: 410-706-7560
Research: Molecular Pathogenesis of E. coli Infections
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Donna Farber, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Surgery
Phone: 410-706-7458
Research: The focus of my research is on CD4 T cell memory and peripheral T cell differentiation.
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Ricardo Feldman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-4197
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Martin Flajnik, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-5161
Research: My work is centered on the evolution of the immune system, with the major goal being to understand the origins of adaptive immunity.
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Ashraf Fouad, D.D.S.
Chairman
Department of Endodontics, Prothodontics & Operative Dentistry
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Director of the Postgraduate Endodontics Program
Phone: 410-706-7047
Research: Microbial analysis of endodontic infections; Endodontic treatment outcomes; Determination of effective endodontic antimicrobial agents
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Claire Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D.
Director
Professor
Institute of Genome Sciences
Phone: 410-706-3879
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Robert Gallo, M.D.
Director, Institute of Human Virology
Professor
Phone: 410-706-8614
Research: the development of an effective HIV preventive vaccine and the development of innovative HIV therapies
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Ronald Gartenhaus, M.D.
Associate Professor
Medicine
Phone: 410-328-3691
Research: Lymphomagenesis; Molecular Genetics; Translational regulation
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Alfredo Garzino-Demo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Human Virology
Phone: 410-706-4689
Research: role of chemokines that bind to CCR5 in protection from infection and disease progression
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Anthony Gaspari, M.D.
Chair
Professor
Department of Dermatology
Phone: 410-328-5766
Research: T-lymphocyte mediated allergic skin diseases, antigen presentation by resident epidermal cells such as Langerhans cells and keratinocytes to skin homing lymphocytes, and immunopharmacology
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Patricia Gearhart, Ph.D.
Investigator
Associate Professor
Phone: 410-558-8561
Research: biochemical and functional interactions of these and other proteins that have been implicated in this error-prone repair pathway
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Bret Hassel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-328-2344
Research: My laboratory studies two pathways of interferon action that are involved in the antiviral and tumor suppressive activities of interferon.
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Anil Jaiswal, Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Program in Toxicology, Director-Track in Mechanistic Toxicology
Professor
Pharmocology and Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-2285
Research: Our research interests include 'Oxidative Stress Signaling, Cell Survival and Death, Chemoprevention, Oncogenesis and Bioreductive Drug Activation and Drug Development'.
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Dhan Kalvakolanu
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-328-1396
Research: The major research interests of Dr. Kalvakolanu's lab are regulation of gene transcription and signal transduction by cytokines; Tumor cell growth control; and Regulation of novel Cell death-activatin
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Roberta Kamin-Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Deparrment of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-4886
Research: human host defense mechanisms with emphasis on mucosal immunity (immunity in the major tracts-GI, genital-urinary, oral cavity, etc) and HIV-1 vaccine development.
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James Kaper, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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Center for Vaccine Development
Phone: 410-706-2344
Research: Research in my laboratory focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of enteric bacterial pathogens.
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Achsah Keegan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-8174
Research: The major goal of our lab is to gain an understanding of the molecular mechanism by which IL-4 mediates its diverse array of biological effects with the future goal of developing rational strategies f
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Myron M. Levine, M.D., D.T.P.H.
Head, Division of Geographic Medicine
Professor
Department of Medicine
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Division of Geographic Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Pediatrics
Phone: 410-706-7588
Research: Overview Pathogenesis of bacterial diarrheas; enteric vaccine development; field epidemiologic studies of bacterial enteric infections. Research Interests Development of vaccines against enteric infec
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George Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Human Virology
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Director, Division of Vaccine Research
Phone: 410-706-4688
Research: Development of Mucosal Vaccines Against HIV-1; The Role of Glycosaminoglycan Binding in the Biological Activities of b-chemokines
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Ferenc Livak, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: (410) 706-0747
Research: Our ultimate goal is to integrate the function of the lymphoid specific and ubiquitous external signals as well as the cell-autonomous transcriptional program into a coherent framework of lymphocyte d
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Wuyuan Lu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UMBI and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMBC
Phone: 410-706-4890
Research: Chemical Protein Engineering via Native Chemical Ligation;
Viral Proteins in HIV-1 Assembly and Maturation;
Targeting Tumorigenic Proteins for Cancer Therapy;
Structure and Function Relationship
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Igor Lukashevich, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medicine
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Institute of Human Virology
Phone: 410-706-1366
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Kristen Lyke, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
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Geographic Medicine (CVD)
Phone: 410-706-0462
Research: Malaria, parasites
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Volker Mai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Phone: 410-706-4583
Research: The main interest of the laboratory is in the contributions of diet and gut microflora to carcinogenesis with a special emphasis on the increased burden of this disease in African Americans.
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Dean Mann, M.D.
Professor
Department of Pathology
Phone: 410-328-5512
Research: Human Immunology, with an emphasis on the genetic control of the immune response as related to disease pathogenesis and treatment
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Andrei Medvedev, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-6496
Research: My current research focuses on mechanisms of tolerance to LPS and mycobacterial components.
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Gregory Melikian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute of Human Virology
Phone: 410-706-4781
Research: The main focus of our group is the molecular mechanism by which human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Rous sarcoma virus induce membrane fusion that leads to virus entry.
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Kamal Moudgil, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-7804
Research: antigen processing and presentation; induction and regulation of autoimmune arthritis
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Garry Myers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute for Genomic Sciences
Phone: 410-706-5678
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James Nataro, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Phone: 410-706-8442
Research: My laboratory studies the molecular pathogenetic features of bacteria causing chronic diarrhea in the developing world.
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Vishvanatha Nene, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
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Institute for Genome Sciences
Phone: 410-706-3860
Research: Molecular biology and genomics of apicomplexan parasites.
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Diana Oram, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-8705
Research: Gram positive bacterial pathogenesis
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Yuko Ota, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-5161
Research: My current research interests are the search for the origins of immune genes and the manner by which the immune system was shaped over evolutionary time.
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Zeev Pancer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Center of Marine Biotechnology, UMBI
Phone: 410-234-8834
Research: Comparative Immunology; Origin of vertebrate adaptive immunity - Rearranging antigen receptors of jawless vertebrates - Molecular mechanisms of invertebrate and vertebrate immunity.
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Macela Pasetti, Ph.D.
Chief, Applied Immunology Unit
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
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Division of Infectious & Tropical Diseases
Phone: 410-706-2341
Research: Dr. Pasetti’s research focuses in the evaluation and characterization of immune responses induced by Shigella and Salmonella live vector vaccines expressing bacterial, protozoal, and viral antigens.
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C. David Pauza, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Human Virology
Phone: 410-706-1367
Research: Cinical and animal model research on HIV/AIDS and the development of preventive or therapeutic vaccines.
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Christopher Plowe, M.D, M.P.H.
Chief, Malaria Section, Center for Vaccine Development, Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist
Professor
Department of Medicine
Phone: 410-706-3082
Research: Malaria drug resistance, clinical trials of malaria drugs and vaccines, molecular epidemiology, malaria pathogenesis, malaria-HIV interactions
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Mikulas Popovic, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Human Virology/Microbiology and Immunology
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Division of Basic Science
Phone: 410-706-5879
Research: Studies of Immune-modulating Activities of HIV-1Tat and HIV-1p17
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Suzana Radulovic, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-1341
Research: Overview Genetic manipulation of Rickettsia prowazekii; construction of the DNA vaccine against R. prowazekii and evaluation of the cell- mediated immunity after DNA immunization in C3H mice model
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Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
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Institute for Genome Sciences
Phone: 410-706-5674
Research: Exploring the human microbiome: ecology and metagenomics, Microbial genome sequence comparative analyses: the making of a genome with a special emphasis on human microbial pathogens
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Robert Redfield, M.D.
Associate Director of the IHV, Director, Clinical Care & Research Division
Professor
Institute of Human Virology/Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-4631
Research: development of biological approaches for the treatment of chronic viral pathogens with a present-day focus on HIV
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Marvin Reitz, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Basic Science Division, IHV, UMBI
Professor
Institute of Human Virology
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Laboratory of Viral Carcinogenesis
Phone: 410-706-4679
Research: Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) and its role in human diseases; Chemokines and HIV-1;
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Abdul Ruknudin, Ph.D.
Phone: 410-706-1379
Research: Our lab is investigating the functional differences of these isoforms using biochemical, electrophysiological and molecular biological techniques.
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John Sacci, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-4071
Research: The principle area of my research has been the study of protozoan parasites and how they interact with their respective hosts.
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Maria Salvato, Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Human Virology
Phone: 410-706-1368
Research: Pathogenesis studies, transcriptome analyses, vaccines, and antivirals for viral hemorrhagic fevers in murine, guinea pig and primate models.
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Connie Schmaljohn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
USAMRIID
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Virology Division
Phone: 310-619-4103
Research: Studies are focused toward developing vaccines and therapeutics to combat militarily relevant agents of disease.
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Dan Schulze, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-5180
Research: My laboratory has developed an interest in molecular characterization of membrane transport molecules that regulate calcium (Ca) in cells.
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David Scott, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CVI
Professor
Department of Surgery
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Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID)
Phone: 410-706-8069
Research: Our laboratory focuses on understanding how this self "tolerance" (or unresponsiveness) is learned by both B cells and T cells and applying it using a novel gene therapy approach.
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Jyoti Misra Sen, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Head, Lymphocyte Development Unit
Associate Professor
NIH/NIA Laboratory of Immunology
Phone: 410-558-8163
Research: The long-term goal of our research is to define molecular interactions that are significant in the reconstitution of a functional immune system in adult mouse.
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Mark Shirtliff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-2263
Research: My laboratory is presently using 2D gel electrophoresis, microarray analysis, reporter systems, and knockouts to identify biofilm specific genes and their products in Staphylococcus aureus and Proteus
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Mark Strauch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-1815
Research: DNA-binding proteins and global regulation of gene expression in Bacillus and Listeria
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Scott Strome, M.D.
Chair
Professor
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surger
Phone: 410-328-6467
Research: Dr. Strome's research program is focused on the study of mechanisms to harness the immune response to squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) for purposes of diagnoses/monitoring and ther
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Marcelo Sztein, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics (Primary), Microbiology & Immunology and Medicine (secondary), Leader, Center for Vaccine Development Immunology Group, Chief, CVD Cellular Immunology Section and Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory
Professor
Phone: 6-5328
Research: Current projects encompass the study of systemic and mucosal innate and adaptive immune responses in volunteers participating in vaccine trials being conducted at the CVD and other sites.
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Koji Tamada, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim Visiting Assitant Professor
Otorhinolaryngology
Phone: 410-328-0372
Research: Immunotherapy of cancer, transplantation, infectious diseases, and autoimmunity.
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Hervé Tettelin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
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School of Medicine
Phone: 410-706-6764
Research: Dr. Tettelin’s research focuses on the use of genomics and functional genomics to understand bacterial virulence, study host-pathogen interactions, and identify vaccine candidates and drug targets to
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Charles Via, M.D.
Professor
Dept. of Pathology
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Uniformed Services University of Health Science
Phone: 301-295-3801
Research: The emphasis of my laboratory is to understand the role of T lymphocytes in mediating diseases such as autoimmune disorders (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus) and allograft rejection.
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Stefanie Vogel, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-4838
Research: Dr. Vogel’s research is focused on the capacity of macrophages to respond to bacterial products such as the endotoxic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Gram negative bacteria.
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Angela Wilks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-2532
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Mark Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone: 410-706-8204
Research: The major focus of my lab is to investigate the mechanisms by which reactive oxygen or nitrogen species affect the immune system.
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Richard Zhao, Ph.D.
Division Head of Molecular Pathology;
Director of Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology, Microbiology-Immunology
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Institute of Human Virology
Phone: 410-706-6301
www.zhaolab.us
Research: Virus-host interactions and their roles in cell cycle G2/M regulation, apoptosis and host innate antiviral responses; HIV-1 Vpr; Human biology and virology; Fission yeast genetics
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