Our Faculty
WMBB Faculty
Fellowship Program Director of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Associate Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, Director of Pediatric Physician Scientist Training Program, Associa
612-626-4598
binstadt@umn.edu
Research Interests: Understanding the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases with particular emphasis on immune-mediated cardiovascular disease.
Assistant Professor, Medicine
612-625-6911
tbold@umn.edu
Research Interests: The Bold lab will focus on using advanced genetic tools in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to understand the targets and mechanisms of protective immunity in tuberculosis, as well as novel methods by which the bacteria evade immune destruction.
Professor and Virginia and David C. Utz Land Grant Chair in Fundamental Immunobiology, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-0401
farra005@umn.edu
Research Interests: How cytokines and cytokine-dependent signal transduction pathways control regulatory T cell development and B cell leukemia
Professor, Medicine
612-624-2417
bfife@umn.edu
Research Interests: The PD-1 negative regulatory pathway in T cells and its role in controlling autoimmunity and preventing transplant rejection, tumor immunology, immunological tolerance, intravital 2 photon imaging
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Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
612-301-8313
tfreedma@umn.edu
Research Interests: Regulation of membrane-proximal signaling in hematopoietic cells, macrophage response due to inflammation, including the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer; the regulation of proto-oncogenic signaling proteins like the Src family kinases
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Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-1626
hamil062@umn.edu
Research Interests: Manipulating CD8 T cells to elicit optimal response to pathogen infection, as well as CD8 T cell activation, T cell memory generation and maintenance, enhancing protective immunity, and inhibiting T cell pathology
Associate Director, Center for Immunology; David M. Brown Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-1616
hogqu001@umn.edu
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of T cells in the thymus; gene expression profiling, and RNAi "knock-down" analysis; immune response to the Epstein Barr Virus - a chronic viral infection associated with cancer and autoimmunity in humansLab website
Chairman's Fund Professor in Experimental Pathology, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-1496
james024@umn.edu
Research Interests: Mechanisms that control development, homeostasis and trafficking of naive and memory CD8 T cells; the regulation of protective immunity versus immunopathology in T cell responses.Lab website
Director, Center for Immunology;Regents and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-626-2715
jenki002@umn.edu
CD4 helper T and B cell activation by directly tracking Agn-specific cells, with the goal of achieving an understanding of lymphocyte signal transduction, proliferation, and differentiation processes to improve vaccines and prevent autoimmunity
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Professor, Medicine
612-624-2101
khoru001@umn.edu
Research Interests: Mechanisms of colon cancer pathogenesis in patients with cystic fibrosis, which has become recognized as a genetic colon cancer syndrome; role of gut microbiota and inflammatory pathways in the colon mucosa
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-625-4666
masopust@umn.edu
Research Interests: Resident memory T cells, cytotoxic T cell migration, differentiation and function within tissues, and CD8 T cell vaccines and memory development in response to infections
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Director of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases; Professor, Medicine
612-625-8477
muell002@umn.edu
Research Interests: Biological and biochemical nature of immune self-tolerance and application to the treatment of autoimmune diseases, specifically the breakdown of B cell tolerance during disease development. T cell clonal expansion, allograft rejection, and immunotherapy of cancer
Director of the Institute for Translational Neuroscience, Professor and Tulloch Chair in Genetics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-3647
orrxx002@umn.edu
Associate Director, UMN Dept. of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program; Associate Professor, Medicine
612-625-5634
peter899@umn.edu
Research Interests: The role of adaptor proteins in T cell development, regulation of T cell-dependent autoimmunity, and immune cell transduction
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Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
612-625-6243
prave001@umn.edu
Research Interest:The pre-clinical development of novel therapies for drug addiction. Uncovering the mechanisms underlying efficacy of treatment in animal models of prescription opioid abuse and nociception. This is achieved through the implementation of a variety of strategies used to generate more effective vaccines or antibody-based therapies against drugs of abuse, in addition to other unmet medical needs such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
612-626-4598
schu1048@umn.edu
Research Interests: Investigating the mechanisms behind breakdowns in immune tolerance that lead to autoimmune disease.
Distinguished University Teaching Professor and Harry Kay Chair, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD); Assistant Dean for Graduate Education
612-626-6849
shimi002@umn.edu
Research Interests: Intracellular signal transduction events that regulate adhesion interactions critical for effective agn-specific immune responses & cell traffickingLab website
Assistant Professor, Medicine
612-624-6149
span0005@umn.edu
Research Interests: Generating new MHCII tetramer reagents and monoclonal antibodies to understand antigen specific responses in both people and mice with type 1 diabetes and cancer associate autoimmunity.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-626-7771
ingunn@umn.edu
Research Interests: developing and testing novel strategies to engineer T lymphocytes to safely eliminate recalcitrant cancers.
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Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-625-4650
vvezys@umn.edu
Research Interests: Investigation of how T cell tolerance to self-antigens, tumor antigens, and proteins from chronic infections is induced and maintained; development of methods for reversing established tolerance to these types of proteins and their translation to the clinic
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Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology
612-625-3109
jww@umn.edu
Research Interests: The Williams lab is working on elucidating mechanisms that regulate the recruitment and differentiation of innate immune cells in atherosclerotic plaque. Cutting edge approaches such as single-cell RNA sequencing and intravital imaging are used to make innovative observations that will expand our understanding of immunity in cardiovascular disease.
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Bio Discovery District (BDD) Faculty
Regents' Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Professor of Medicine (Joint Appointment) Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine
612-624-4442
haase001@umn.edu
McKnight Presidential Fellow, Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
612-625-3633
langlois@umn.edu
Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-625-7138
penne001@umn.edu
Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology
612-621-7688
xrevelo@umn.edu
Professor and Endowed Chair in Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Director of Chemical Biology Initiative
612-625-2614
wagne003@umn.edu
U of MN Medical Center (UMMC) Faculty
Regents Professor, Children’s Cancer Research Fund Land Grant Chair in Pediatric Oncology Professor, Pediatrics
612-626-2734
blaza001@umn.edu
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
612-625-9956
ccamell@umn.edu
Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
612-626-3418
dhkim@umn.edu
Associate Professor, Computer Science and BioTechnology Institute
612-564-2762
dknights@umn.edu
Director of the Office of Discovery and Translation, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
612-626-1422
lebie001@umn.edu
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Deputy Director of the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC), Roger L. and Lynn C. Headrick Chair in Cancer Therapeutics, Associate
612-626-4024
mille011@umn.edu
Perlman Professor of Oncology and Comparative Medicine, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Director of the Animal Cancer Care and Research Program, College of Veterinary Medicine
612-625-7436
modiano@umn.edu
Associate Professor, Medicine and Director of the Scleroderma Clinic
612-626-6100
jmolitor@umn.edu
Associate Professor, Basic and Translational Research, Department of Surgery
612-626-4330
subree@umn.edu
Dean of Medical School, Vice President for Clinical Affairs Distinguished McKnight Professor, Pediatrics
612-625-2912
tolar003@umn.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
612-626-3990
wangx504@umn.edu
St. Paul and Off Campus Faculty
Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine
612-626-5786
borgatti@umn.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Investigator, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute
Associate Professor of Biology, Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Morris
320-589-6326
rmjohns@morris.umn.edu
Department Chair, Professor, Department of Veterinary Population Medicine (VPM), Professor of Medicine (Joint Appointment), Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine Institute for Mol
612-625-5295
molit001@umn.edu
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies College of Veterinary Medicine, Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology
612-625-4281
ruthe003@umn.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Medical School, Duluth Campus
218-726-8386
gsimmons@d.umn.edu
