People

Faculty

David Pleasure, MD

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Department of Neurological Surgery
  • School of Medicine
Research Interests: My research centers on central nervous system glial development and glial diseases.

Colin Reardon, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology
  • School of Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: Focusing on how bidirectional communication between the nervous and immune system alters immune outcomes in gut and lung.
Room 2007, Vet Med 3B

Robert Rebhun, DVM, PhD

  • Professor
  • Department of Surgical & Radiological Sciences
  • School of Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: Comparative oncology, canine cancer immunology, metastasis, sarcoma, melanoma.
217 Center for Companion Animal Health

William Ridgway, MD

  • Professor
  • Department of Rheumatology
  • School of Medicine
Research Interests: Autoimmunity, Type 1 Diabetes, T cells, Myeloid derived suppressor cells.

Grace Rosenquist, PhD

  • Assistant Adjunct Professor
  • Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior
  • College of Biological Sciences

Augustine Saiz, MD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • School of Medicine
Research Interests: My lab studies the systemic and local of effects of polytrauma on fracture repair with the clinical goal of improving osseous healing in these patients as polytrauma is an independent risk factor for fracture nonunion. We focus on how severe trauma alters the local fracture immune response initially and the longitudinal effects, focusing on the innate and adaptive immune alterations respectively. We use this information to develop therapeutic targets and immunomodulatory treatments.
2352 Oak Park Research Building

Hannah Savage, DVM, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
  • School of Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: The Savage lab studies interactions between pathogens, the microbiota, and host. In particular, I currently focus on how the microbiota promotes a heathy colonocyte immunometabolism and how this interaction is altered during disease, putting the host at risk of infection with pathogens and pathobionts. My overall research goal is to understand the basis behind these host-microbiota interactions during health so that host health can be supported with therapeutics during microbial disruption to prevent a loss of colonization resistance.

Roger Sciammas, PhD

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology
  • School of Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: Antibody production requires B cell maturation coordinated by changes in transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms of gene expression. The lab studies the transcription factors and RNA binding proteins that drive maturation into antibody secreting plasma cells.