Faculty

David Alland, M.D.
Studies the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and molecular evolution of M. tuberculosis

Padmapriya Banada, Ph.D.
Develops molecular diagnostic assays for TB and sepsis causing pathogens, viruses and select agents and studies inactivation of viruses

Samantha Bell, Ph.D.
Studies the host-pathogen interactions between M. tuberculosis and macrophages

Preeti Bharaj, Ph.D.
Develops novel models of drug activity against bacterial and viral pathogens

John Chan, M.D.
Studies how M. tuberculosis interacts with the host

Theresa Chang, Ph.D.
Studies the role of mucosal immunity in viral infection and disease progression

Neeraj Chauhan, Ph.D.
Studies the biology and disease mechanisms of fungal pathogens of the Candida genus

Roberto Colangeli, Ph.D.
Studies antibiotic resistance and tolerance in M. tuberculosis

David Dubnau, Ph.D.
Studies DNA uptake during genetic transformation and the regulation of bacterial competence, sporulation and biofilms

Eugenie Dubnau, Ph.D.
Studies the processes of competence, sporulation and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis

Jerrold Ellner, M.D.
Studies the immunopathogenesis of TB and TB in HIV

Maria Laura Gennaro, M.D. M.Sc.
Immune responses to respiratory pathogens; tuberculosis; COVID-19; macrophage lipid metabolism

Valentina Guerrini, Ph.D.
Studies aspects of innate immune responses to infectious diseases

Jeanette Hahn, Ph.D.
Studies the requirements for polar localization and delocalization of specific proteins involved in the competent state of Bacillus subtilis

Hee-Sook Kim, Ph.D.
Studies the mechanism of genome integrity and antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei

Pradeep Kumar, Ph.D.
Studies mechanisms underlying drug resistance and persistence in M. tuberculosis

Fred Russell Kramer, Ph.D.
Design of nucleic acids whose functions enable the detection of target genes in assays whose results improve people’s health

Salvatore A.E. Marras, Ph.D.
Develops novel nucleic acid amplification assays and studies the properties of fluorescent nucleic acid hybridization probes

Amesika Nyaku, M.D.
Evaluates novel therapeutics and systems of care for individuals with infectious diseases and substance use disorders

Abraham Pinter, Ph.D.
Harnassing the humoral immune responses to HIV and TB for immunodiagnostic and immunotherapeutic applications

G. Marcela Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Studies mycobacterial pathogenesis with emphasis in pathogen-host interactions that are driven by nutritional immunity

Hassan Safi, Ph.D.
Discovering the mechanisms that allow M. tuberculosis to revert from high cost phenotype

Padmini Salgame, Ph.D.
Studies tubercular host microbe interaction

Jeanne Salje, Ph.D.
Studies the host-pathogen cell biology of obligate intracellular bacteria

Lanbo Shi, Ph.D.
Immunometabolism in tuberculosis and mechanism of M. tuberculosis pathogenicity

Shobha Swaminathan, M.D.
Leading multiple clinical studies targeting HIV treatment and prevention

Selvakumar Subbian, Ph.D.
Studies host-pathogen interactions and host-directed therapy in Infectious diseases of humans

Sanjay Tyagi, Ph.D.
Single-molecule imaging of intracellular RNA synthesis and localization

Yingda L. Xie, M.D.
Development of clinical tools to study, diagnose, and treat tuberculosis

Chaoyang Xue, Ph.D.
Studies host-pathogen interactions in Cryptococcus
