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Faculty
Faculty members with appointments to 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
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Lawrence W. Bergman
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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 |
| Karl W. Henry |
Role of chromatin in the regulation of multidrug resistance (MDR) in opportunistic fungi, specifically, that of Candida albicans and other Candida species |
| 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 |
| Akhil Vaidya |
Understanding basic molecular functioning of malaria parasites with a view to develop new antimalarial drugs |
Center City Campus
| 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. |
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Laura Steel
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Development of RNAi-based therapies for hepatitis B virus (HBV) |
| Brian Wigdahl |
Immunpathogenesis 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
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Doylestown Campus
Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research
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Tim Block
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Molecular mechanisms of viral persistence and development of therapeutic strategies for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) |
| Baohua Gu |
Discovery and development of small molecule antivirals against Hepatitis C Virus, Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and West Nile Virus |
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Xuanyong Lu
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Cellular susceptibility to hepatitis B (HBV) infection; developing strategies to control cancer cell growth through silencing of overexpresed apoptosis inhibitors |
| Anand Mehta |
Development of new hepatitis B (HBV) therapeutics; identification of early markers of liver cancer |
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Pamela Norton
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Development of novel antiviral drugs for use against hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection; host cell defenses against HBV infection |
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Ying-Hsiu Su
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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 |
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