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Research Faculty
Alistair Ramsay, Ph.D.
LVC Director
Professor of Medicine, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: host immunity to intracellular pathogens, vaccine development, vaccine delivery technology
John Clements, Ph.D.
LVC Steering Committee
Professor and Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Research Interests: adjuvants, bacterial pathogenesis, vaccine development, molecular aspects of the host-parasite relationship
Jay Kolls, MD
LVC Steering Committee
Chair, Department of Genetics, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: Pneumocystis infection, lung disease and the mechanisms of action of IL-23 and 17
Seth Pincus, MD
LVC Steering Committee
Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Microbiology & Nelson Ordway Professor of Pediatrics at LSUHSC-NO and Director of the Research Institute for Children in New Orleans
Research Interests: biologic effects of immunoglobulins; antibodies in infectious diseases
Tarun Mandal, Ph.D.
LVC Steering Committee
McCaffrey/Norwood Professor of Pharmacy Director, Center for Nanomedicine & Drug Delivery
Xavier University of Louisiana
Research Interests: pulmonary, oral, subcutaneous/intramuscular, and transdermal delivery of medicine using novel drug delivery and nanotechnology
Angela Amedee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: pathogenesis and mother-to-infant transmission of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV)
Gregory Bagby, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Kai and Earl Rozas Professor of Physiology, Professor of Physical Therapy, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: alcohol impact on SIV transmission, pathogenesis, progression and therapy, pulmonary host defense and sepsis, mechanisms and consequences of alcohol-induced immunosuppression
Daniel G. Bausch, MD
Associate Professor, Tropical Medicine, TUHSC
Research Interests: epidemiology and control of viral hemorrhagic fevers and emerging pathogens, building research capacity in developing countries, health and human rights
James Blanchard, DVM, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Chair, Division of Collaborative Research, TUNPRC
Research Interests: SIV/AIDS, nonhuman primate medicine
Stephanie Broyles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, LSUHSC-NO
Jim Cutler, Ph.D.
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO;
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Tulane University HSC
Research Interests: Candida albicans and candidiasis, host-fungal relationships
Peter Didier, DVM, Ph.D.
Veterinary Pathologist, Department of Tropical Medicine, TUHSC; Clinical Associate, Professor, Division of Comparative Pathology, TUNPRC
Research Interests: TB diagnosis, vaccines, and pathogenesis; West Nile virus pathogenesis; microsporidiosis drug testing model
Michael Ferris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics; Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: microbial ecology, molecular taxonomy, polymicrobial diseases, and bacterial vaginosis
Paul Fidel, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology; Director, Center of Excellence in Oral and Craniofacial Biology; Associate Dean for Research, LSU School of Dentistry, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: immunology, cellular and mucosal candidiasis, immunoregulation of recurrent vaginal or oral
Lucia Freytag, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, TUHSC
Research Interests: Host-parasite interactions in fungal and bacterial infections
Scott Grayson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tulane University
Research Interests: macromolecular architecture, material and medical applications
Paula Gregory, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Genetics
Michael Hagensee, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: human immune response against human papillomavirus, novel PCR techniques to detect HPV DNA
Kyle Happel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: bacterial host defenses in the lungs, particularly the adaptive immune response
Vijay John, Ph.D.
Leo S. Weil Professor and Department Chair, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University
Research Interests: self-assembly and nanostructured materials, Polymer/nanoparticle composites, biomolecular materials, microemulsion systems, clathrate hydrate thermodynamics
Deepak Kaushal, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, TUNPRC
Research Interests: tuberculosis, bioinformatics
Pamela Kozlowski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: HIV vaccine development, HIV pathogenesis, and mucosal immunity to HIV
Andrew Lackner, DVM, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Comparative Pathology, TUNPRC
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of infectious diseases using NHPs
Samuel J. Landry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Tulane University
Research Interests: protein folding and protein-protein interactions; molecular chaperone proteins; antigen processing
Janet Leigh, DMD
Head of Department; Professor, Oral Medicine and Radiology; Adjunct Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, LSU-Dental School
Research Interests:
Ronald Luftig, Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: AIDS pathogenesis, gene therapy, construction of vectors for
David Martin, MD
Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases; Harry E. Dascomb Professor of Medicine; Professor of Microbiology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: epidemiology, genital ulcer disease, Chlamydia trachomatis infection, Chlamydia pneumoniae infection
Carol Mason, MD
Professor of Medicine; Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy, MCLNO; Staff Physician, MCLNO, Ochsner
Research Interests: general pulmonary diseases; mechanisms of pulmonary host defense against infections
Lisa Morici, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor; Department of Microbiology and Immunology; TUHSC
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogens capable of establishing chronic infections represent a significant challenge in the field of medical microbiology
Steve Nelson, MD
Dean of LSUHSC School of Medicine; John H. Seabury Professor of Medicine; Professor of Physiology; Director and Principal Investigator, Alcohol Research Center, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: host defense; sepsis; cytokines
Alison Quayle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: Immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis in the human female genital tract, Chlamydia trachomatis persistence in the human female genital tract
James Robinson, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics at Tulane Hospital for Children, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics at Tulane Hospital for Children
Resaerch Interests: EBV and HIV Infections
Chad Roy, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Microbiology, TUNPRC
Research Interests: infectious disease aerobiology, transmissibility of disease
Judd Shellito, MD
Section Chief, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine; Jim Lowenstein Professor of Medicine; Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology; Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: Host defense mechanisms against pulmonary infection, AIDS and alcohol, consumption, occupational/environmental medicine, silicosis, asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma, inhalation lung injury, occupational asthma
Li Shen, MD, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology
Research Interests; Molecular biology and pathogenesis of Chlamydia; global gene regulatory mechanisms
Joy Sturtevant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: Molecular Mycology
Fern Tsien, Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Genetics LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: Chromatin instability in lymphomas,
Chromosomal instability in multipotent stem cells, Genetics education
David A Welsh, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, LSUHSC-NO
Research Interests: adult stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), emphysema, aging, HIV
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