Thomas Evans, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Disease)

• Immunology of HIV infection

Anthony Gaspari, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology

• Role of CD40 in non-lymphoid cells
• Co-stimulatory molecules in antigen-presenting cells
• Molecular and cellular mechanisms of delayed-type hypersensitivity

David Hicks, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,

• Rochester General Hospital
• Pathology of bone, cartilage and synovial membrane

Richard Insel, MD, Professor, Pediatrics, Microbiology/Immunology

• Chief, Pediatric Immunology & Rheumatology
• Director, Strong Children Research Center
• Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes
• Generation of memory B-cells
• H. Influenza vaccines
• Developmental immunology

Moon Nahm, MD, Professor of Pediatrics & Pathology

• Immune response to polysaccharide antigens
• Pneumoccocal and H. influenza vaccines
• B-cell development in germinal centers

Alice Pentland, MD, Professor and Chair, Dermatology Dept.

• Mechanisms of UV-induced inflammation
• Signal transduction mechanisms in prostaglandin synthesis

Edward Puzas, MD, PhD, Professor of Orthopaedics

• Chondrocyte and osteoclast biology

Richard Reichman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology/Immunology

• Chief, Infectious Disease Unit
• Prevention and treatment of HIV and human papilloma virus infection

Joseph Rosenblatt, MD, Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Microbiology/Immunology

• Chief, Hematology/Oncology Unit
• Novel approaches to HIV-1 gene therapy
• Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in Oncology

Stuart Rubin, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology

• Magnetic resonance imaging of bone and muscle

Daniel Ryan, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

• Regulation of B lymphoid lineage commitment of human hematopoietic progenitors
• Microenvironment regulation of B-cell development

Charles Thorton, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology

• Regulation of human immunoglobulin production in vivo
• Therapeutic use of intravenous immunoglobulins
• Inflammatory myopathies
• Trinucleotide repeats in muscular dystrophy

John Treanor, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Disease)

• Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections
• Influenza, Norwalk and rotavirus vaccine development and testing.