Director

William C. Gause, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Director, RBHS Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases
Director, Center for Immunity & Inflammation
University Professor of Medicine

Members

Aimee M. Beaulieu, PhD
Assistant Professor &
Chancellor Scholar Microbiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Tessa L. Bergsbaken, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Nicholas J. Bessman, PhD
Assistant Professor & Chancellor Scholar
Department of Medicine

Sylvia Christakos, PhD
Professor
Microbiology, Biochemistry &
Molecular Genetics

Nataki C. Douglas, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Director of Translational Research
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health

Karen L. Edelblum, PhD
Assistant Professor & Chancellor Scholar
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Patricia A. Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, PhD
Professor & Provost-RBHS Newark
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Huijuan Hu, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology

Yosuke Kumamoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Alexander Lemenze, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Dongfang Liu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Keri E. Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

Dane Parker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Vasileios Petrou, PhD
Assistant Professor and
ChancellorScholar
Department of Microbiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular
Genetics

Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Virus-Host-Innate
Immunity
Department of Medicine

Amariliz Rivera, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Center for Immunity & Inflammation
Department of Pediatrics

Mark Siracusa, PhD
Associate Professor& Chancellor Scholar
Director, Research Support Core
Department of Medicine

Robin Stephens, MS, PhD
Associate Profesor
Director, Neuroinflammation
Department of Pharmacology, Physiology
and Neuroscience

Jason Scott Weinstein, PhD
Assistant Professor & Chancellor Scholar
Department of Medicine

Darin L. Wiesner, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

George S. Yap, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine

Associate Members

Eddy Arnold, PhD
Board of Governors &
Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry & Chemical Biology,
Rutgers University

Kathleen Beebe, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Orthopaedics

Alex Bekker, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair
Department of Anesthesiology

Vivian Bellofatto, PhD
Professor & Interim Chair
Department of Microbiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Purnima Bhanot, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Raymond B. Birge, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Theresa Chang, PhD
Associate Professor
Public Health Research Institute

Kristine Gedroic, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Voluntary Faculty
Department of Anesthesiology

PingPing Hou, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Cell Signaling, Department of
Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Scott Kachlany, PhD
Associate Professor
Center for Oral Infectious Diseases

Sergei V. Kotenko, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Steven W. Levison, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Laboratory for Regenerative Neurobiology
Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience

David Lukac, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Matthew B. Neiditch, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

J. Patrick O'Connor, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Orthopaedics

Nikhat Parveen, MS, BSC, PhD
Associate Professor
Department Microbiology,
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Christine Rohowsky-Kochan, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmacology, Physiology
and Neuroscience

John Siekierka, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
RWJMS, Department of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Padmini Salgame, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine