Neuropathology

The Neuropathology research interests in the Pathology department cover a wide range of topics, spanning prion disorders, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, ALS, autism, and Fragile X with an emphasis on understanding the mechanism(s) underlying these diseases through cell and transgenic models with the goal providing novel therapeutic and diagnostic strategies.

Primary Faculty: Shu Chen Mark Cohen Pierluigi Gambetti Qingzhong Kong Hyoung-Gon Lee Robert Petersen Raj Rolston Jiri Safar Neena Singh Man-Sun Sy Xiongwei Zhu Wen-quan Zou

Secondary and Adjnuct Faculty: George Perry Michael Snape

Immunology:

The Immunology research interests in the Pathology department cover a wide range of Immunology-related topics, spanning from basic research in areas such as innate immunity, T cell activation, tolerance, antigen processing and presentation, MHC function, complement, antibody structure and function, and mucosal immunity to research in clinically relevant models of infectious diseases, vaccine development, immunodeficiency, immunopathology, transplantation and autoimmunity.

Primary Faculty: Derek Abbott Rose Beck Brian Cobb Steven Emancipator Neil Greenspan Clifford Harding David Kaplan Feng Lin Ed Medof John Nedrud Theresa Pizarro Lan Zhou

Secondary and Adjunct Faculty: Donald Anthony, Jr. Jeffrey Auletta Melvin Berger Robert Bonomo W. Henry Boom David Canaday Fabio Cominelli Kevin Cooper Steven Czinn Yiping Han Amy Hise Alex Huang James Kazura Christopher King Alan Levine Eric Pearlman Neal S. Rote Carlos Subauste Aaron Weinberg

Faculty Trainers: George Dubyak Robert Fairchild James Finke Thomas Hamilton Michael Lederman John Letterio Xiaoxia Li Booki Min Richard Ransohoff Scott Sieg George Stark Yu-Chung Yang Peter Zimmerman

Cancer

The Cancer research interests in the Pathology department involve the diagnosis, progression and treatment of experimental and human cancer. Particular focuses include the many facets of cancer biology, including cancer pathology, cancer genetics, cell signaling, control of cell growth, tumor apoptosis, cancer pharmacology, cancer therapeutics, stem cell biology, cancer imaging, tumor immunology and cancer drug development.

Primary Faculty: Rose Beck Dawn Dawson Laxminarayana Devireddy Mark Jackson David Kaplan Greg MacLennan David Wald Joseph Willis Wei Xin Lan Zhou

Secondary and Adjunct Faculty: Kevin Cooper Edward M. Greenfield Alex Huang Alan Levine Jaroslaw Maciejewski Shigemi Matsuyama Keith McCrae Cheng-Kui Qu Alvin Schmaier

Faculty Trainers: Alex Almasan Susann Brady-Kalnay David Danielpour Clark Distelhorst Stanton Gerson James Jaccobberger Ruth Keri John Letterio Danny Manor Sanford Markowitz Robert H. Miller George Stark Zhenghe Wang Yu-Chung Yang

Other Areas:

Other research interests in the Pathology department involve advance research in experimental Pathology and the molecular and cellular basis of disease. Particular focuses include the many facets of experimental pathology, including tissue injury and healing, necrosis, biomaterials biocompatibility, aging, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Primary Faculty: James Anderson Vincent Monnier Alan Tartakoff Nicholas Ziats

Secondary and Adjunct Faculty: Edward M. Greenfield

Faculty Trainers: Radhika Atit Paul L. Fox Stanley Hazen Danny Manor Roy L. Silverstein Jonathan Smith Witold K. Surewicz