Immunology

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary

Key words
cellular signaling, tissue injury, inflammation, fibrosis, kidney disease

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Immunology

Research summary
The role of B lymphocytes in autoimmune disease

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Immunology

Research summary
Identifying the role of cytokines in glomerular injury

Key words
B cell, podocytes, renal imaging, cytokines, systemic lupus erythematosus, biomarkers

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Immunology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
My goal is to understand how CAR T cells interact with their immune environment, and to manipulate these interactions to improve outcomes of treatment.

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CAR T cells, HSCs, cell therapy, gene therapy, cancer

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Immunology
Neurosciences
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
We study complex interactions between the immune and nervous systems in health and disease

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Neuroimmunology; neuroscience; immunology; lymphatics; behavior; Alzheimer’s disease; neurodegeneration; glia; microglia; blood-brain barrier (BBB); meninges

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Immunology
Cancer Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
understand the biology of different human dendritic cells and other myeloid cells as a key for manipulating immune responses in various disease conditions

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Human Immunology, Dendritic Cells, Tumor Immunology, immune dysfunctions, Vaccines

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Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
My lab works on the host immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We use mouse models that mimic key aspects of human disease to gain a mechanistic understanding of the host response allowing for the identification of novel targets for host-directed therapies.

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis, innate immunology, macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Modulating the complement system to mitigate pneumonia and acute lung injury

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complement, pneumonia, lung injury, transplant, ICU, translational

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Immunology
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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Investigating the development of immunological memory in disease states

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B cells, immunological memory, germinal center, virus, allergy

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Immunology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Identify signaling pathways that mediate cardiac tissue repair/regeneration and heart failure pathogenesis.

Key words
heart failure, heart development, macrophages, innate immunity