Welcome

William C. Gause, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Director, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases (i3D)
Director, Center of lmmunity and Inflammation

David Alland, MD
Professor
Department of Medicine; Chief of Infectious Disease; Director of the Center for Emerging Pathogens and the Rutgers Regional Biocontaiment Laboratories

Dane Parker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Raymond Birge, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics
Director
Center for Cell Signaling

Nikhat Parveen, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Steven Brant, MD
Chief of Gastrenterology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Vasileios Petrou, PhD
Assistant Professor and Chancellor Scholar
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Neeraj Chauhan, PhD
Associate Professor
Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Amariliz Rivera, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Shin-heng Chiou, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine and Medical Oncology

Marcela Rodriguez, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine

Padmini Salgame, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine

Karen Edelblum, PhD
Assistant Professor and Chancellor Scholar
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Jeanne Salje, PhD
Assistant Professor
Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Daniel Fine, DMD
Professor and Chair
Department of Oral Biology
Director
Center for Oral Infectious Diseases

Derek Sant'Angelo, PhD
Professor
Department of Biology
Pediatrics and Pharmacology

Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research Provost, RBHS-Newark
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine

Stephan Schwander, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Urban-Global Public Health

Maria Gennaro, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine

Mark Siracusa, PhD
Assistant Professor and Chancellor Scholar
Department of Medicine and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Huijuan Hu, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Roger Strair, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine
Chief, Hematologic Malignancies/Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

Scott Kachlany, PhD
Associate Professor
Oral Biology

Shobha Swaminathan, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine

Sergei Kotenko, PhD
Professor
Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Yuan-Xiang Tao, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research
Department of Anesthesiology
Director of the Center for Pain Medicine Research

Yosuke Kumamoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laborator Medicine and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Ping Xie, PhD
Associate Professor
Cell Biology and Neuroscience

Dongfang Liu, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Chaoyang Xue, PhD
Associate Professor
Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Keri Lunsford, MD, PhD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery and the Center for Immunity and Inflammation

Jason Yang, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and the Center for Emerging Pathogens

Matthew Neiditch, PhD
Associate Professor
Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Xilin Zhao, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics