| Regular Graduate Faculty | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Vivek R. Nerurkar, Ph.D. – Department Chair | Pathogenesis of infectious diseases; delineating cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying microbe-host interaction |
| Sandra P. Chang, Ph.D. – Graduate Chair | Immunology and vaccine development; vaccination and One Health education |
| William L. Gosnell, Ph.D. | Host parasite interactions, malaria, immunology / Immunopathogenesis of emerging parasitic infections |
| George S. N. Hui, Ph.D. | Parasitology, immunology, cell biology |
| Kalpana J. Kallianpur, Ph.D. | Brain imaging, neuroAIDS, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder |
| Pakieli H. Kaufusi, Ph.D. | Pathogenesis of West Nile virus / Molecular Pathogenesis of Emerging RNA viruses |
| Iris Kimura, Ph.D. | Kinesiology; exercise for elderly and HIV/AIDS patients |
| Axel Lehrer, Ph.D. | Viral vaccine development |
| Iain MacPherson, Ph.D. | HIV/AIDS biomarkers, HIV vaccine development |
| Jourdan McMillan, Ph.D. | Effect of molecular adjuvants on B cell development |
| Juwon Park, Ph.D. | Regulation of the development and progression of fibrosis; fibroblast-dependent regulation of inflammation / Tissue Homeostasis, Inflammation, and Resolution |
| Angela Sy, Dr.P.H. | Community Engaged Research / Research Training for Underrepresented Students |
| Albert To, Ph.D. | Viral vaccine development, viral seroepidemiology |
| Alanna Tseng, Ph.D. | SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, serology |
| Saguna Verma, Ph.D. Graduate Co-chair | Molecular, biochemical aspects of viral diseases / Immunopathogenesis of emerging viruses |
| Wei-Kung Wang M.D., D.S. | Pathogenesis of arboviral and zoonotic viruses |
| Angel Yanagihara, Ph.D. | Biochemistry of cubozoan venom |
| Emeritus Faculty | |
| Virginia S. Hinshaw, Ph.D. | Influenza virus epidemiology, pathogenicity, immunology and vaccines |
| Arwind Diwan, Ph.D. | Virology |
| DeWolfe Miller, Ph.D. | Epidemiology of infectious diseases |
| Leslie Tam, Ph.D. | Medical microbiology and immunology |
| Diane Taylor, Ph.D. | Malaria immunology |
| Karen Yamaga, Ph.D. | Immunology |
| Richard Yanagihara, M.D., M.P.H. | Transdisciplinary investigations of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, use of infectious agents as biological markers to trace ancient and recent movements of human populations |
Cooperating Graduate Faculty | |
| John M. Berestecky, Ph.D. | Enteric bacteria |
| John Chen, Ph.D. | Applied statistics, data science, healthcare data analytics, research design, statistical education and collaboration, statistical resources development |
| Youping Deng, Ph.D. | Bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, cancer, genomics, systems biology |
| Tung Hoang, Ph.D. | Pathophysiology, genomics and transcriptomics of pathogenic bacteria |
| Vedbar Khadka | Bioinformatics |
| Yuanan Lu, Ph.D. | Gene therapy for HIV-1 infection, gene transfer approaches for neuroAIDS, immunodiagnosis of herpesvirus infection of green turtles, aquaculture virology |
| Marian E. Melish, M.D. | Staphylococcal infection and toxins, clinical infectious disease, Kawasaki syndrome |
| Sladjana Prisic, Ph.D. | Ribosomal regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
Affiliate Graduate Faculty | |
| Brenda Hernandez, Ph.D. | Human papilloma virus, hepatitis virus, viral carcinogenesis, epidemiology |
| Jennifer Honda, Ph.D. | Environmental, host, and microbial factors driving nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease emergence |
| Stacey Honda, M.D. | Tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease, molecular markers of cancer |
| LTC Edwin Kamau, Ph.D. | Viral and parasitic diseases, including malaria |
| Mukesh Kumar, Ph.D. | Virus-host interactions |
| Michael Lieberman | Vaccinology |
| Kevin Palmer, Ph.D. | Global public health and tropical diseases such as malaria, dengue and lymphatic filariasis |
| Cecilia Shikuma, M.D. | HIV/AIDS clinical trials |
| Bruce Shiramizu, M.D. | Pathology of HIV-associated disorders |
Adjunct Faculty | |
| Melissa Agsalda-Garcia, Ph.D. | Anal cancer/dysplasia screening for HIV+ patients |
| Vernon E. Ansdell, M.D. | Geographic, travel medicine |
| Alan Garcia, Ph.D. | Clinical immunology including acute rheumatic fever; monoclonal antibody technology |
| Allison Imrie, Ph.D. | Dengue immunology and epidemiology |
| James F. Kelley, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Pathogenesis of flaviviruses; malaria surveillance |
| Kenton Kramer, Ph.D. | Parasitology, epidemiology, leptospirosis, HIV serodiagnosis |
| Lishomwa Ndhlovu, M.D., Ph.D. | HIV immunology |
| Marc Le Pape, Ph.D. | Biomedical informatics; application of computer science, cognitive science and statistics to the design of Health Management Information Systems |
| Napapon Sailasuta, Ph.D. | Develop novel MR spectroscopy and imaging techniques to understand disease pathogenesis |
| Diane W. Taylor, Ph.D. | Immunology of malaria in pregnant women and newborns |
| Tina Tauasosi | |
| Catherine F. Yamauchi, Ph.D. | Healthcare research |