IMP Faculty Research Index
Faculty of the Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine (IMM) conduct advanced research to understand the immune system and the host response to infection. In addition, we focus upon immune surveillance in cancer, apoptosis, tissue transplantation, autoimmunity, infectious disease, and molecular and cellular aspects of aging. Division members are working to develop therapies based on harnessing or manipulating the immune system and/or other molecular pathways relevant to human health and disease. The faculty offers a cohesive program of training in modern molecular and cellular immunology and medicine that contributes to and benefits from its close ties to research in the allied fields of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, cell biology and genetics being conducted in other Divisions. The Division, in conjunction with the Cancer Research Laboratory, supervises and maintains state-of-the-art instrumentation for advanced microscopy, flow cytometry, and the construction of transgenic and gene-targeted mice. The Division sponsors a weekly seminar series by eminent scientists, and jointly holds its annual retreat with the immunology program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Faculty
The following is an alphabetical list of active MCB faculty members in the division and brief descriptions of their research. Additional faculty lists are available using the following links:
Emeriti and Professors of the Graduate School | Secondary Divisional Affiliates
Greg Barton
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Innate immune system
Robert Beatty
Senior Continuing Lecturer of Immunology
Infectious disease immunology
Laurent Coscoy
Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Molecular mechanisms of immune evasion in viral infection
Jeffery Cox
C.H. Li Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Endocrinology, Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and immune evasion in mycobacteria
Andrew Dillin
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Biology and Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
My laboratory works on the genetic and molecular mechanisms that regulate aging and aging-related disease.
Michel DuPage
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Epigenetic control of the functional plasticity of T cells in disease
Eva Harris
Professor (Affiliated) of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
David Kirn
Adjunct Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
David Nguyen
Assistant Professor (Affiliated) of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Applications of genome editing in the immune system as applied to understanding and correcting mutations causing primary immunodeficiency (PID)
Molly Ohainle
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Cellular barriers to viral infection, host-virus arms race, HIV functional genomics
David Raulet
Esther and Wendy Schekman Chair in Basic Cancer Biology, and Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Innate immune responses to cancer and infections mediated by natural killer cells and T cells
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira
Assistant Professor (Affiliated) of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Circadian rhythms in parasitic diseases
Ellen Robey
Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage
Robert Saxton
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Mechanisms of cell signaling controlling tissue inflammation, repair, and homeostasis
Kimberley Seed
Associate Professor (Affiliated) of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Interactions between bacteria and their viral predators (bacteriophages)
Sarah A. Stanley
Associate Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Immune responses to infection
Russell Vance
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Host-pathogen interactions
Allon Wagner
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Computational and systems immunology, single-cell genomics, immunometabolism
Emeriti and Professors of the Graduate School
William Sha
Professor Emeritus of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
B cell gene regulation and fate determination
Astar Winoto
Williams Endowed Chair and Professor Emeritus of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis and proliferation in T cells, cancer, host pathogen interaction and human stem cells.
Secondary Divisional Affiliates
The following faculty have a secondary affiliation with the Immunology and Molecular Medicine division.
Lin He
Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research and Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology
microRNA functions in cancer development, mouse tumor models
Daniel Portnoy
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular and cellular basis of microbial pathogenesis