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William C. Gause, PhD – Senior Associate Dean for Research

Director, Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Director, Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, i3D

Dr. William C. Gause received his bachelor’s from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. at Cornell University (1986). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, Dr.

David Alland, MD – Professor and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine

Director, The Public Health Research Institute (PHRI); The Center for COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness (CCRP2); Rutgers Regional Bio-containment Laboratory (RBL); and The Center for Emerging Pathogens (EP)

Dr. Alland led the effort that resulted in the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay, the first on-demand, point-of-care TB test, and the first replacement for the acid-fast smear to diagnose TB in

Aimee Beaulieu, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Assistant Professor and Chancellor Scholar

Research in the Beaulieu Lab is focused on understanding the molecular and cellular signals that regulate immune responses by Natural Killer (NK) cells and “helper” innate lymphoid cells (ILC1s). We

Samantha Bell, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Assistant Professor

The Bell Lab studies host-pathogen interactions between macrophages and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Mtb causes ~10 million new infections each year and kills ~1.5 million

Tessa Bergsbaken, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Assistant Professor

The Bergsbaken Lab studies a subset of CD8+ T cells that traffic to the tissue and persist there after infection or immunization. These tissue-resident memory T cells (Trm) play an

Nicholas J. Bessman, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Medicine

Assistant Professor

The Bessman lab is interested in the interplay between the immune system and intestinal bacteria during health and disease. We recently discovered that the immune system carefully regulates iron levels

John Chan, MD – Department of Medicine

Professor

Our laboratory studies the interaction between the host and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). Our goals are to characterize the lung immune response to Mtb, decipher

Sylvia Christakos, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Professor

Faculty Profile   Publications

Nataki C. Douglas, MD, PhD – Center for Immunity & Inflammation; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health

Associate Professor and Director, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Faculty Profile   Publications  

David Dubnau, PhD – Public Health Research Institute

Professor

Many bacteria take up environmental DNA in a process known as genetic transformation, which enables the cells to incorporate fitness-enhancing genes and mediates the spread of antibiotic resistance and virulence