Asthma and Allergy

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Gob-5 stain of RSV infected STAT1 KO mice
-Peebles Lab

Asthma and Allergy

In addition to avoiding autoimmunity, the immune system must discriminate pathogens from innocuous foreign antigens. Failure to properly distinguish the harmless from the harmful can lead to allergy and asthma. Vanderbilt immunologists are leading the field in understanding mechanisms of respiratory inflammation and asthma among other allergic diseases.

Danyvid Olivares-Villagomez, Ph.D.

Danyvid Olivares-Villagomez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

 

Mucosal immunology, IEL, iCD8alpha, osteopontin, granzyme

Dawn C. Newcomb, Ph.D.

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

R. Stokes Peebles, M.D.

R. Stokes Peebles, M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Elizabeth and John Murray Chair in Medicine

Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

 

Allergically-mediated and virally-induced lung inflammation

Simon A. Mallal, M.B.B.S.

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

Heather Pua

Heather H. Pua, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Lung, miRNA, exRNA (extracellular RNA), extracellular vesicles, allergy, asthma, Th2

Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Ph.D.

Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Immunobiology

 

T cell metabolism in inflammation and anti-tumor immunity

Mark R. Boothby, M.D., Ph.D.

Mark R. Boothby, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Professor of Medicine

 

Signal transduction, transcription regulation mechanisms

Rachel Henry Bonami, Ph.D.

Rachel Henry Bonami, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

 

 

B cell, T cell, autoimmunity, type 1 diabetes, arthritis, microbiome

Alyssa H. Hasty, Ph.D.

 

Alyssa H. Hasty, Ph.D.

 

Associate Dean for Faculty Development for Basic Sciences

Professor of Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsCornelius

Vanderbilt Chair in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

 

Mechanisms by which obesity increases risk for disease