Christopher Aiken, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Biochemistry and molecular biology of HIV infection; Antiviral mechanisms
Donald J. Alcendor, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Dysregulation of genes induced by Kaposi's sarcoma virus for novel therapeutic
Holly Algood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Immune response to Helicobacter pylori
Manuel Ascano, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Post-transcriptional gene regulation in innate immunity and cellular stress
Thomas M. Aune, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Functional genomic and epigenetic approaches to understanding gene regulation
Zachary Bacigalupa, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Novel approach to blocking HIF-2α signaling by inhibiting the metabolic enzyme ACSS2 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)
Justin M. Balko, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Division of Microbial Pathogenesis
Translational cancer research focused on molecular therapeutics, onco-immunology & bioinformatics
Joey V. Barnett, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
Vice Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Director, Office of Medical Student Research
Mechanisms by which growth factors mediate and influence organ formation during embryogenesis
Ruben Martinez Barricarte, Ph.D., MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Genetics
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Human immunology, human genetics, infectious diseases, molecular biology, primary immunodeficiencies (PID), immunogenetics
Julie A. Bastarache, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Translational research in acute lung injury and sepsis focusing on molecular mechanisms
Megan Behringer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Steven and Bunny Fayne Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Biological Sciences
Microbiology, Genomics, Evolution, Population Genetics
Julia K. Bohannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immunomodulatory therapies for the prevention of infection and sepsis following a severe burn injury
Rachel Henry Bonami, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology & Immunology
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Division of Microbial Pathogenesis
B cell, T cell, autoimmunity, type 1 diabetes, arthritis, microbiome
Mark R. Boothby, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Medicine
Signal transduction, transcription regulation mechanisms
Alan S. Boyd, M.D.
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Clinical dermatology, dermatopathology, cutaneous neoplasms
Benjamin Bratton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Bacterial cell biology, computational microbiology, Escherichia coli, Helicobacter pylori
Mariana Xavier Byndloss, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Linking gut microbiota, host metabolism, and disease
James E. Cassat, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director, Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation
Interaction between host and pathogen during invasive bacterial infections
Sung Hoon Cho, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immune response, cellular metabolism & tumor progression
Hernán Correa, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Pediatric pathology
Timothy L. Cover, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Bacteria-host interactions, bacterial toxins, helicobacter pylori, and gastric cancer
Leslie J. Crofford, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Division of Rheumatology & Immunology
Wilson Family Chair in Medicine
Innate and acquired immunity in inflammatory arthritis, myositis, scleroderma, fibromyalgia, pain
James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D.
Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Ann Scott Carell Chair
Human B cell and antibody responses to infections
Mark R. Denison, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Craig-Weaver Chair in Pediatics
Replication, cell biology, and pathogenesis of coronaviruses; emerging viruses in biodefense
S. Kent Dickeson, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Investigating the role of Factor XI in coagulation and thrombosis
Kelly E. Dooley, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Tuberculosis therapeutics
Amanda C. Doran, Ph.D., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Cellular-molecular biology of cardiometabolic disease.
Ivelin S. Georgiev, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Director, Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation
Computational immunology and virology
Jeremy Allen Goettel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Mechanisms regulating intestinal immunity
Scott Guelcher, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Medicine
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
David W. Haas, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Pharmacology
AIDS, HIV, pharmacogenomics, tuberculosis
Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor in Urology
Associate Director, Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation
Bacterial Signal Transduction and Multicellular Behavior in Uropathogens
J. Harold Helderman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Growth factor and cytokine receptors on T lymphocytes
Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D.
Elliott V. Newman Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Biochemistry
The structure and function of type IV collagen, the major constituent of basement membranes
Romney M. Humphries, Ph.D., D(ABMM), M(ASCP)
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Medical Director of the Microbiology Laboratory
Antimicrobial resistance, Bacterial pathogenesis, Diagnostic testing, Clinical microbiology
Jonathan M. Irish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Cancer, precision medicine, computational biology, machine learning, cell signaling, chemical biology, single cell tools
W. Gray Jerome, III, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology
Atherosclerosis, lipid, cholesterol, macrophage
Joyce E. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Interim Chief of Pediatric Pathology
Histopathology and immunopathology of pediatric viral pneumonias, etiology and pathogenesis of idiopathic interstitial lung diseases, cytologic diagnosis of disease
Sebastian Joyce, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Dorothy B. and Theodore R. Austin Chair in Pathology
Antigen presentation and recognition by immune cells
Spyros A. Kalams, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Cellular immune responses directed against viral and bacterial pathogens; therapeutic immunization, HIV vaccines
John Karijolich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Oncogenic Viruses, RNA-based mechanisms of antiviral and antitumor immunity, epigenomics, CRISPR screens
Tae Kon Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Hematology and Oncology
Heather K. Kroh, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor in Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Neutralization of the Clostridium difficile toxins by antibodies and small molecule inhibitors
Amrendra Kumar, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor in Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Antigen presentation and recognition by immune cells
Dana Borden Lacy, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Edward and Nancy Fody Chair in Pathology
Professor of Biochemistry
Structures and molecular mechanisms of bacterial toxins
Deborah A. Lannigan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology
Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Signaling pathways involved in mammary gland homeostasis and breast cancer
Amy S. Major, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immunological mechanisms of autoimmunity in atherosclerosis
Simon A. Mallal, M.B.B.S.
Professor of Medicine
Major E.B. Stahlman Chair in Infectious Diseases and Inflammation
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immunometabolism & Metabolic Diseases, Tumor Biology & Tumor Immunology
Nick Markham, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Medicine
C. difficile bacterial toxin pathogenesis and the mechanisms of microbially influenced colorectal cancer tumorigenesis
Janet Markle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Human immunology, genetics, T cells, innate immunity, flow and mass cytometry, host-microbe interactions, microbiome, bioinformatics
Houra Merrikh, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
DNA replication, mutagenesis, and evolution
William M. Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Innate immunity initiated by activation of Toll-Like Receptor 3, next generation sequencing applications, pathogenesis of intracellular microbes
Denis Mogilenko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immunometabolism in obesity and aging
Daniel J. Moore, Ph.D., M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immune regulation in autoimmunity and transplantation
Harold L. Moses, M.D.
Research Professor of Pharmacology
Professor of Cancer Biology, Emeritus
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Regulation of cell proliferation by growth factors, oncogenes, growth inhibitors and tumor suppressor genes
Dawn C. Newcomb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Estrogen, testosterone, sex hormones, T cells, innate lymphoid cells, asthma, allergy
Kristen M. Ogden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Innate immune responses to bacterial pathogens in the lung
Danyvid Olivares-Villagomez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Mucosal immunology, IEL, iCD8alpha, osteopontin, granzyme
Kevin G. Osteen, Ph.D.
Pierre Soupart Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Reproductive medicine, human endometium, endometrial dysfunction, endometriosis, progesterone action
Andrew Patterson, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immunometabolism and Primary Immune Deficiencies
Richard M. Peek, Jr., M.D.
Director, Division of Gastroenterology
Mina Cobb Wallace Chair in Immunology
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Pathogenesis, helicobacter pylori, gastric cancer, carcinogenesis, infectious disease, bacterial pathogenesis, inflammation, malignancy
John A. Phillips, III, M.D.
David T. Karzon Chair in Pediatrics
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular investigations of familial disorders
Lars Plate, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Cornelius Vanderbilt Dean's Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Chemical Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Proteomics, Microbiology, Enzymology, Drug discovery, VICB
Heather H. Pua, Ph.D., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Lung, miRNA, exRNA (extracellular RNA), extracellular vesicles, allergy, asthma, Th2
Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Ph.D.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Immunobiology
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology
T cell metabolism in inflammation and anti-tumor immunity
Louise A. Rollins-Smith, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Pediatrics
Amphibian immune defenses against an ancient fungal pathogen
Eben Rosenthal, M.D.
Guy M. Maness Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Krishnendu Roy, Ph.D.
Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering University Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Regenerative Medicine
Jonathan E. Schmitz, Ph.D., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Clinical Microbiology, Molecular Diagnostics, Opportunistic pathogens, Microbe-microbe interactions, Personalized microbiology, Urinary tract infections
Jonathan G. Schoenecker, Ph.D., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Jeffrey W. Mast Chair in Orthopaedics Trauma and Hip Surgery
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
The role of coagulation in normal and pathologic orthopaedic related wounds
Herbert S. Schwartz, M.D.
Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Dan Spengler, M.D., Chair in Orthopaedics
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Proteomics of sarcomas, bone metastasis and tissue engineering
C. Henrique Serezani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Understanding host defense in pre-existing inflammatory conditions
Edward R. Sherwood, Ph.D., M.D.
Corneilius Vanderbilt Chair in Anesthesiology
Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Mechanisms of sepsis-induced systemic inflammation and organ injury with emphasis on the roles of natural killer (NK) and T lymphocytes
Eric P. Skaar, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology & Inflammation
Director, Division of Molecular Pathogenesis
Ernest W. Goodpasture Chair in Pathology
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Factors and processes involved in the battle for metal between bacterial pathogens and their hosts
Benjamin W. Spiller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Structural Biology of virulence factors, host-pathogen relationship, and cytoskeletal regulation
Jeffrey M. Spraggins, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
mass spectrometry, molecular imaging, multimodal imaging, multi omics, proteomics, transcriptomics, cell biology, diabetes, infectious disease
Subramaniam Sriram, M.B.B.S.
Professor of Neurology
William C. Weaver III Chair in Neurology
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Mechanism of CNS demyelination
Mildred T. Stahlman, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Neonatal pulmonary pathology
Ann Thomas Tate, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Dean's Faculty Fellow of College of Arts & Science
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
The impact of parasites on the evolution of immune systems
Steven D. Townsend, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Synthesis of homogeneous human milk oligosaccharides
Luc Van Kaer, Ph.D.
Elizabeth and John Shapiro Chair
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Role of innate-type regulatory lymphocytes in health and chronic inflammatory diseases
Ingrid M. Verhamme, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Regulation of blood coagulation proteolytic enzymes
Kasey C. Vickers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Cardiometabolic diseases
Allison Walker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Developing machine learning tools to facilitate engineering and discovery of natural products
Nicole L. Ward, Ph.D.
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Dermatology
Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis (PsA), osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), lupus, hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), other inflammatory skin diseases, multi-‘omics, microbiome, and skin disease co-morbidities
Lorraine B Ware, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Translational research in acute lung injury and lung transplantation
Alissa M. Weaver, Ph.D., M.D.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair
Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Cancer invasion, membrane trafficking, cytoskeleton, systems biology, secreted exosomes, extracellular RNA
Vivian Lee Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular and immunologic mechanisms of thyroid cancer invasion and metastasis
John Tanner Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Polymer science, nanotechnology, immunobiology, colloid and surface engineering, cell engineering, and drug delivery
Keith T. Wilson, M.D.
Thomas F. Frist Sr. Chair in Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Host immune response to the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori
Lan Wu, M.D.
Research Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Interactions between the immune and metabolic systems, whole body metabolism
Haichun Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Instructor in Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Research Instructor in Pediatrics
Wenhan Zhu Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Resilience mechanism of gut commensals, metabolic targeting of gut microbes to promote commensal resilience, and the roles of bacterial toxin in promoting colorectal cancer development
Sandra S. Zinkel, Ph.D., M.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Mechanisms by which normal and malignant cells regulate programed cell death or apoptosis following DNA damage
