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The faculty are based in an active medical center dedicated to patient care, to the support of clinical, biomedical and basic biological research and to education in allergy, basic and clinical immunology, and microbiology. The following is a list of current active faculty and their primary research interests, as well as faculty in the Allergy and Immunology clinical program of the Department.
Lena Al-Harthi, PhD, George Washington University; (Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor): HIV neuro- and immuno-pathogenesis and the role of Wnt/b-catenin signaling in health and in HIV disease.
Edward Barker, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago (Assistant Professor): Mechanism of HIV immune evasion.
James W. Bremer, PhD, Baylor University; (Associate Professor and Director, Virology Quality Assurance Laboratory): Clinical virology; Pathogenesis of HIV infection.
Alison Finnegan, PhD, Tufts University; (Professor): Regulation of the immune response; Cellular immunology; Autoimmune diseases.
Anita T. Gewurz, MD, Albany Medical College; (Associate Professor and Head of Training Program in Allergy/Immunology): Clinical immunology; Pediatric allergy; Latex hypersensitivity.
Henry Gewurz, MD, Johns Hopkins University; (Professor): Mechanisms of natural resistance; Chemistry and biology of complement and acute phase proteins; Immunobiology of inflammatory diseases and processes.
Evalyn Grant, MD, Rush University; (Assistant Professor): Pathogenesis of asthma.
Diana D. Huang, PhD, University of Michigan; (Assistant Professor): Molecular basis of reovirus pathogenicity and persistence in vivo; HIV virology.
Harold Kessler, MD, Rush University; (Professor): Infectious diseases; Hepatitis B viral infections; HIV infections.
Sau-Ping Kwan, PhD, University of Cincinnati; (Professor): Molecular genetics of immune deficiency diseases; Autism disorders.
Alan L. Landay, PhD, University of Pittsburgh; (Professor and Chair): Flow cytometry; Lymphocyte subpopulations in HIV infection.
Thomas F. Lint, PhD, Tulane University; (Professor): Mechanisms of complement-mediated cell lysis; Complement and HIV; Parkinson's disease.
Nell Lurain, PhD, Loyola University of Chicago; (Associate Professor): Cytomegalovirus, drug resistance and pathogenesis.
Amanda Marzo, PhD, University of Western Australia (Assistant Professor): Mechanisms that govern the induction and maintenance of memory T cells.
James N. Moy, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago; (Associate Professor and Director of the Section of Allergy and Immunology): The role of eosinophil major basic protein and neutrophils in late-phase allergic events.
Janet Plate, PhD, Duke University; (Professor): Cytokine and cytokine receptor gene expression in leukemia; Molecular biology of interleukin receptors.
Gregory T. Spear, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago; (Professor): Role of the complement system; Innate immunity and antibodies in HIV infection.
Larry L. Thomas, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago; (Professor and Associate Chair): Mechanisms of allergic disease; Pharmacology of human neutrophil functions; Immunopharmacology.
Janice M. Zeller, PhD, RN, University of Illinois at Chicago; (Associate Professor): Stress and the immune response, especially in HIV infection.
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