Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Immunology Faculty

Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program

Microbial Pathogenesis

Ravit Boger, MD

Chief and Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Disease

Kenneth L. Brockman, PhD

Assistant Professor

Microbial Pathogenesis, Bacterial Gene Regulation, Host-Microbe Interactions

John A. Corbett, PhD

Professor and Chair

Benjamin Gantner, PhD

Assistant Professor

Amy Hudson, PhD

Professor

Viral Immune Evasion

Anna H. Huppler, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology

John R. Kirby, PhD

Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director, Microbiome, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Microbiome Research

Microbial Signal Transduction

Robert Lochhead, PhD

Associate Professor; Secondary Faculty in Medicine (Rheumatology)

Lyme disease, inflammation and autoimmunity

Michelle Riehle, PhD

Associate Professor

Malaria Vector Biology, Genetics of Susceptibility, Microbiome and Immunity

Nita H. Salzman, MD, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Research

Antimicrobial Peptides, host-microbe interactions in the GI tract, microbiota in health and disease

Vera Tarakanova, PhD

Professor

Virus-associated Tumorigenesis and Virus-host Interactions

Scott S. Terhune, PhD

Professor

Human Cytomegalovirus Host-Cell Protein Interactions During Infection

Rodney E. Willoughby, MD

Professor

Xiao Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Yi-Guang Chen, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Microbiology & Immunology

Immunogenetics of type 1 diabetes

Jenifer Coburn, PhD

Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Center for Infectious Disease Research

Bacterial Pathogenesis

John A. Corbett, PhD

Professor and Chair

Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD

Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Immune regulation and homeostasis

Martin J. Hessner, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology); Director, Max McGee Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes

The Microbiome in the Development and Progression of Type 1 Diabetes

Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD

Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center; G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research

Dr. Hillard was named Associate Dean for Research in November 2015 after serving eight months as co-Interim Senior Associate Dean for Research. She has served as director of the Neuroscience Research Center since its inception in 2010. She was also Inaugural Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Training Program from 1996-2010. As a highly active researcher, Dr. Hillard’s laboratory is primarily focused on the pharmacology and biochemistry of the cannabinoids and endocannabinoids.

Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Therapeutic potential of modifying the inflammatory response after spinal cord injury

Qing-Song Liu, PhD

Professor

Timothy B. Meier, PhD

Professor

Neuroimaging and blood-based markers of sport-related concussion and mild traumatic brain injury

Ahmed Zayed Obeidat, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty: MS/Neuroimmunology

Daochun Sun, PhD

Assistant Professor

Tumor heterogeneity, Cancer stem cells, Neurofibromatosis Type 1-associated peripheral nerve and central nerve system tumors, and data mining in biological big data

Demin Wang, PhD

Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor

Signal Regulation of B Lymphopoiesis

Calvin B. Williams, MD, PhD

Children's Research Institute

Pradeep Chaluvally-Raghavan, PhD

Associate Professor

Brian T. Craig, MD

Assistant Professor

William R. Drobyski, MD

Mariette C. and Philip W. Orth/Tom Anderson Chair of Oncology; Co-Leader, Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Cancer Center; Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology

Inflammation and Immunology, Transplantation Biology

Michael B. Dwinell, PhD

Professor; Founding Director, Center for Immunology; Director, Bobbie Nick Voss Laboratory for Colon Cancer Research; Hanis-Stepka-Rettig Endowed Chair in Cancer Research

Cancer Metastasis, Tumor Microenvironment, Mucosal Inflammation

Bryon D. Johnson, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology/BMT) and Microbiology & Immunology

Cancer immunology and immunotherapy

Tyce J. Kearl, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

David A. Margolis, MD

Chair, Professor

Jeffrey A. Medin, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology); Secondary Faculty

Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Sunila Pradeep, PhD

Associate Professor

Sabarinath Venniyil Radhakrishnan, MD

Assistant Professor

Nirav N. Shah, MD

Associate Professor

Bronwen E Shaw, MD, PhD

Professor; Scientific Director CIBMTR

Julie-An M. Talano, MD

Professor

Sarah B. White, MD, MS, FSIR, FCIRSE

Associate Dean

Stuart J. Wong, MD

Center Director, Professor

Yongxia Wu, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Graft-versus-Host Disease, Cancer Immunotherapy

Xue-Zhong Yu, MBA, MS, MD

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director of Basic Sciences in the MCW Cancer Center

Tumor Immunology, Cancer Immunotherapy, Graft-versus-Host Disease

Anthony E. Zamora, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology

Pui-Ying (Penny) Lam, PhD

Assistant Professor

Chemo-optogenetic/Photopharmacological tool development, cellular and molecular mechanisms of immunity in the central nervous system

Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD

Professor and Gardetto Chair for Immunology and Immunotherapy; Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute

NK cell development and function

James Verbsky, MD, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics (Rheumatology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Medical Director, Clinical Immunology Research Laboratory; Medical Director, Clinical and Translational Research

Immune regulation, T regulatory cells, role of IL-2 and IL-10 in immune regulation, mechanisms of suppression of immune responses by T regulatory cells

Brian F. Volkman, PhD

Director, Program in Chemical Biology; Professor, Biochemistry

Hartmut Weiler, PhD

Associate Professor

Renren Wen, PhD

Associate Professor; Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute

T and B cell Activation and Signaling

Fenlu Zhu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Ehab L. Atallah, MD

Professor

John A. Auchampach, PhD

Professor

Musaddiq Awan, MD

Associate Professor

Clinical and research interests include the treatment of head and neck and skin cancers as well as the use of stereotactic radiosurgery for the management of spine, abdominal and liver metastases, and translational and clinical components.

Kathleen Boyle, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor

William B. Campbell, PhD

Professor

Bill Cashdollar, PhD

Director, Research Core Labs & Facilities, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Adjunct Faculty, Microbiology & Immunology

Anita D'Souza, MD

Associate Chief, Research, Division of Hematology/Oncology; Professor of Medicine

Allison D. Ebert, PhD

Associate Professor; Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program

Neurodegenerative diseases, both understanding the molecular basis for the disease progression and finding effective experimental therapies

Ashraf El-Meanawy, MD, MS, PhD, FASN

Outpatient Dialysis Medical Director, Professor

Nashaat Gerges, PhD, BPharm

Professor, Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

Matthew R. Hodges, PhD, FAPS

Professor and Eminent Scholar; Director of Graduate Studies

Wenzhou Hong, PhD

Assistant Professor

Roger H. Johnson, PhD

Associate Professor; Director of Programmatic Grants and Strategic Partnership Development, Cancer Center

Sailaja Kamaraju, MD

Associate Professor

Joohyun Kim, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Jennifer M. Knight, MD, MS

Professor

Wei Liu, PhD

Joseph F. Heil, Jr. Endowed Chair of Molecular Oncogenesis; Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program, Cancer Center; Director, Structural Biology Shared Resource (SBSR), Cancer Center; Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology

George E. MacKinnon III, PhD, MS, RPh, FASHP, FNAP

Founding Dean and Professor

Adriano Marchese, PhD

Professor; Program Director, Biochemistry Graduate Program; Director, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences (IDP)

Meera Mohan, MD, MS, FACP

Assistant Professor

Pablo Nakagawa, PhD

Assistant Professor

Christopher M. Olsen, PhD

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Carolyn Oxencis, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences

Bin Pan, PhD

Associate Professor

Ann K. Rosenthal, MD, FACP

Associate Dean, Professor

Associate Chief of Staff/Research, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center; Associate Dean for Research/Medical College of Wisconsin

Daisy Sahoo, PhD

Dean, School of Graduate Studies; Women in Science Endowed Professor; Secondary Faculty in Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Toxicology

Curt D. Sigmund, PhD

James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology; Chair of Physiology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center

Roy Silverstein, MD

Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Medicine; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology

Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of thrombosis, atherosclerosis and angiogenesis with focus on role of the type 2 scavenger receptor CD36

Pippa M. Simpson, PhD

Professor and Director, Section Chief for Quantitative Health Sciences

Jonathan Thompson, MD, MS

Associate Professor

Joseph Zenga, MD

Associate Professor & Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology & Reconstruction