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Our IMP faculty at Weill Cornell Graduate School and its partner institutions—Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Hospital for Special Surgery—are world-renowned for their work in a broad range of areas, from anti-microbial immunity to the commensal microbiome, molecular to cellular immunology, and autoimmunity to tumor immunology.

Maria Akhmanova
Cell invasion and migration through tissues
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Niroshana Anandasabapathy
How tissue immune programming governs maintenance of homeostasis
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Mohammad Arifuzzaman
Cellular and molecular mechanisms by which diet and microbiota regulate the immune system
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David Artis
Regulatory mechanisms that control immune cell homeostasis at the body’s barrier surfaces
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Naama Aviram
Molecular mechanisms that protect microorganisms from their own pathogenic invaders
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Franck J. Barrat
Clinical benefit of interfering with nucleic acids sensing and the type 1 IFN response in autoimmune and fibrotic human diseases
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Julie Magarian Blander
Innate immunity and inflammation and their application to human disease
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Chrysothemis Brown
How distinct lineages of antigen-presenting cells regulate the balance between tissue homeostasis and host immunity
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Ethel Cesarman
How cancer, viral infection and immune dysfunction are interrelated, aiming to understand mechanisms of pathogenesis
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Jayanta Chaudhuri
Recombination, genomic integrity, and heterogeneity in B cells
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Selina Chen-Kiang
Cell cycle control of B cell immunity and cancer
Nicholas Collins
Understanding how diet can be harnessed to optimize the immune system
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Mary K. Crow
Immune mechanisms contributing to autoimmunity and systemic autoimmune disease
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Juan R Cubillos-Ruiz
Defining how molecular pathways that sense organelle stress direct the immune system in cancer, inflammation, autoimmunity, and infectious diseases
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Gretchen Diehl
Understanding of how the microbiota regulates development and function of the intestinal immune system
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Laura Theresa Donlin
Define mechanisms of the human immune system at the molecular level
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Sabine Ehrt
Focusing on the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis to better understand its pathogenesis
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Frederic Geissmann
Developmental origin and homeostasis of macrophages and the related cell types monocytes and dendritic cells
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Alexander Gitlin
How inflammatory cell signaling controls the nature and magnitude of inflammation under physiological and disease conditions
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Michael S. Glickman
Understanding Mycobacterial pathogenesis and microbial cancer therapies
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Chun-Jun Guo
Microbe-host interactions in the context of health and disease at the level of molecular mechanisms
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Alan Hanash
Immunology of hematopoietic transplantation and immune-mediated mechanisms of tissue damage and regeneration
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Tobias M. Hohl
Molecular and cellular principles of fungal pathogenesis and antifungal immunity
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Katharine Hsu
The therapeutic potential of natural killer (NK) cells
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Morgan Huse
Combining imaging technology, synthetic chemistry, and materials science with immunological approaches to understand the structure, function, and mechanobiology of immune cell-cell interactions
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Iliyan D Iliev
How the host-microbiota coevolution and interactions with fungi shape the immune system, neuronal communication, and diseases, allergies, and cancers
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Lionel B Ivashkiv
Cytokine signaling, mechanisms of cytokine production, and epigenetic regulation of inflammatory gene expression
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Brad Jones
The relationships between HIV and the human immune system – primarily cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells
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Steven Zvi Josefowicz
Epigenetic regulation of immunity
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Ming Li
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of immune regulation
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Randy Longman
Defining the cellular, molecular, and microbial regulation of intestinal barrier immunity
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Theresa T. Lu
Understanding the mechanistic basis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
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Xiaojing Ma
Understanding mechanisms of immunosuppression using animal models of breast and ovarian cancers
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Ivan Maillard
The role of Notch signaling in immune health and disease
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Carl F. Nathan
Host-pathogen interactions, focusing on macrophages and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)
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Rachel Erin Niec
The cellular and molecular mechanisms of coordinated tissue level responses to environmental cues and stresses and their contributions to tissue functions and disease states
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Juan Osorio
Mechanisms of antibody-mediated immunity, with a focus on myeloid cell reprograming
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Virginia Pascual
Understanding the pathogenesis and to identify biomarkers and therapeutic targets for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that start in childhood
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Jonathan Peled
Understanding how the gut microbiome and host immunity regulate one another
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Sallie Permar
The development of immunologic strategies to eliminate neonatal pathogens
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Alessandra B. Pernis
The cellular and molecular mechanisms that become dysregulated in autoimmunity
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Justin Perry
How phagocytes clear dead cells and debris, and the impact of disrupting that process
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Kyu Y. Rhee
Intracellular biochemistry of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its response to perturbation
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Gabrielle Rizzuto
Investigating what prevents maternal immune rejection of the placenta and fetus
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Inez Rogatsky
How inflammation is controlled at the transcriptional and epigenomic level
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Alexander Rudensky
Understanding the molecular mechanisms governing the differentiation and function of CD4 T lymphocytes
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Jane E Salmon
Mechanisms of tissue injury in lupus and other autoimmune diseases and identifying targets to attenuate immune-mediated organ damage
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Andrea Schietinger
Regulatory mechanisms of T cell dysfunction in the context of tumors
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Gregory F Sonnenberg
Immune tolerance and mucosal immunology
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Joseph Sun
Innate and adaptive cytotoxic lymphocyte responses to infectious diseases
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Craig Thompson
Nutrient uptake and its role in cell transformation
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Santosha Adipudi Vardhana
How nutrient availability, uptake, and metabolism regulates immune cell behavior during chronic viral infections and within tumors
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Patrick Wilson
B cell biology and antibodies, relevant technologies, and translational applications thereof with an emphasis on vaccine development and immunity
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Jedd D Wolchok
Modulating the immune response to cancer, better understanding the mechanistic basis for immunotherapy sensitivity and resistance
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Stefan Worgall
The role of sphingolipid metabolism in pulmonary host responses to viral pathogens and its role in the pathogenesis of pediatric respiratory diseases
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Joao Xavier
Identifying the underlying physical, biological, and evolutionary principles that are common among, and confer robustness to, multicellular systems
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Xinbo Yang
Studying the T cell receptor (TCR) specificity in cancer and autoimmune disease
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Roberta Zappasodi
Microenvironmental cues that limit the immune response to cancer and the efficacy of immunotherapy
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Melody Zeng
How gut microbiome and maternal-fetal/neonatal immune crosstalk impacts development of neonatal/pediatric inflammatory diseases
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