Faculty members with appointments in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology are listed by campus with a brief description of their professional interests. For more detailed information about individual faculty members, click on their respective links.

Queen Lane Campus

Carol Artlett	Role of 3-deoxyglucosone in mediating inflammation in diabetes and autoimmunity and the role of allograft inflammatory factor-1 in systemic sclerosis
Lawrence W. Bergman	Malarial invasion mechanisms and cellular gene expression patterns during infection
Elizabeth Blankenhorn	Genetic foundations for inherited susceptibility to autoimmune diseases, including diabetes and multiple sclerosis
Alina Boesteanu	Migration of dendritic cells to the lung after influenza virus infection, and the role of costimulatory molecules in the primary, secondary and memory immune responses to influenza virus
James Burns	Development of protective immunity against blood-stage malaria induced by immunization with defined subunit vaccines
Thomas Edlind	Molecular mechanisms of antifungal action, resistance, and toxicity
Santosh Katiyar	Molecular mechanisms of antifungal resistance
Peter Katsikis	Roles of cytokines, T cells, and apoptosis in autoimmunity and anti-viral immune responses
Kirsten Larson	Course director of medical immunology and medical genetics, and development and implementation of both team-taught courses in our medical school curricula
Yvonne Mueller	Function of virus-specific cytotoxic CD8+ T cells
Richard Rest	Molecular and cellular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Bacillus anthracis
Donna Russo	Director of the medical school curriculum, Interdisciplinary Foundations of Medicine, as well as department course director for Medical Microbiology
Daniel Simon	Bacillus anthracis and regulation of its virulence genes
Akhil Vaidya	Understanding basic molecular functioning of malaria parasites with a view to develop new antimalarial drugs

Center City Campus

Pooja Jain	Dendritic cells in autoimmune and neuroinflammatory disease
Stephen Jennings	Optimal protection from HSV-1 infection provided by interactions between innate and acquired immune responses
Zafar K. Khan	Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), oncoprotein Tax, Animal model of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/ tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), Neuroinflammation, Demyelination, HIV-1, Microbicides
Evelyn Kilareski	HIV-1 transcriptional regulation and neuropathogenesis

Fred Krebs	HIV-1 immunopathogensis and neuropathogenesis, development of microbicidal agents
Julio Martín-García	HIV-1 envelope-mediated fusion and entry, HIV neurotropism and neuropathogenesis
Sonia Navas-Martín	Molecular pathogenesis and evolution of RNA viruses. Animal models for viral infectious diseases.

Michael Nonnemacher	Impact of genetic variation and drugs of abuse on HIV-1 and SIV replication and pathogenesis
Laura Steel	Development of RNAi-based therapies for hepatitis B virus (HBV)
Brian Wigdahl	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

Doylestown Campus
Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research

Tim Block

Molecular mechanisms of viral persistence and development of therapeutic strategies for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV)

Haituo Guo	Molecular pathway of HBV cccDNA formation and cccDNA regulation by viral and cellular factors; Development of in vitro assay systems for discovery of novel antiviral drugs.
Xuanyong Lu	Cellular susceptibility to hepatitis B (HBV) infection; developing strategies to control cancer cell growth through silencing of overexpressed apoptosis inhibitors

Anand Mehta

Development of new hepatitis B (HBV) therapeutics; identification of early markers of liver cancer

Pamela Norton

Development of novel antiviral drugs for use against hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection; host cell defenses against HBV infection

Ying-Hsiu Su

Understanding interactions between herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and neurons during viral latency and reactivation; using nucleic acids in urine as diagnostic markers of cancer

Allegheny General Hospital
Allegheny-Singer Research Institute
Center for Genomic Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA

Farrel Joel Buchinsky

Determining genetic susceptibility of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis

Garth D. Ehrlich

Molecular pathogenesis of chronic infectious diseases

Luanne Hall-Stoodley	Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation
Fen Z. Hu	Bacterial Biofilm Pathogenesis

Sandeep Kathju

Gene regulation during scarless wound healing

James Christopher Post

Role of biofilms in chronic human infections using otitis media as a model.  Genetics of human performance, scarless wound healing.

Paul Stoodley

Growth and control of bacterial biofilms in nature, industry, and medicine

Secondary Faculty