Members
Members
Fikri Avci
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mechanisms of immune activation by carbohydrate antigens; design and development
of knowledge-based vaccines and therapeutics against pathogens and cancers.
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Donald Harn
Professor and GRA Distinguished Investigator
Infectious Diseases
Mechanistic analysis of parasite induced immune suppression. Translational research
on immuno-modulation pertaining to inflammation based diseases.
Vaccine development and trials.
Eric T. Harvill
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Interactions between microbial pathogens and host immunity in the
mouse model using bacteria that naturally infect mice and
closely related strains that are important human pathogens.
Biao He
Professor and GRA Distinguished Investigator
Infectious Diseases
Paramyxovirus-host interactions, vaccine development, emerging paramyxovirus and onocylytic virus.
Kim Klonowski
Assistant Professor
Cellular Biology
Development and regulation of immunological memory.
Eric Lafontaine
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases
Bacterial pathogenesis; role of adhesins in virulence; vaccine development.
Jarrod J. Mousa
Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases
Human antibody-mediated immunity to inform next-generation
vaccine development; focus on immunity to major viral, bacterial,
and fungal human pathogens using multidisciplinary approaches in
immunology, structural biology,and biochemistry to study
antibody-antigen interactions at the molecular level.
Karen Norris
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Vaccine dev for prevention of PCP and COPD, RSV infection, COPD; Immune Activation
and Aging, PAH; Immune-mediated mechanisms of pathogenesis, Type 2 diabetes and
metabolic syndrome, therapeutic testing; chronic immune activation/inflammation.
Scott Pegan
Associate Professor
Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences
Antibiotic & antiviral drug discovery, assay development, enzymology,
and structural biology, regulation of innate immune responses.
Fred Quinn
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis pathogenesis; host-pathogen interactions.
Ted Ross
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Dr. Ross explores new vaccine technologies for seasonal and pandemic influenza
as well as West Nile Virus, Dengue Chikungunya, Ebola, and HIV.
S. Mark Tompkins
Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases; Toxciology
Transmission and pathogenicity of zoonotic influenza virus infection and development
of vaccination and the prevention and treatment of viral infections.
M. Stephen Trent
Distinguished Professor
Infectious Diseases
Characterizing the assembly of bacterial surface structures, Development of vaccines for viral
and bacterial pathogens, Systems approaches to understanding microbial diseases
Ralph A. Tripp
Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Chair in Vaccine and Therapeutic Studies
Infectious Diseases; Toxciology
Disease intervention strategies for important human pathogens and emerging infectious diseases of zoonotic origin;
mechanisms of immunity; virus-host interface.
Robert Woods
Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Immunological carbohydrate-protein interactions studied by computational simulation and experimental methods.