Autoimmunity

Research Interests: Cancer immune microenvironment and immunotherapy.

Research Interests: Research Interests: mechanistic understanding of inflammation in chronic diseases; specifically understanding the innate and adaptive immune response in diabetic kidney disease (DKD), and characterizing the role of the immune response on DKD pathogenesis. First group to identify an association between urine complement components and progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD).

Research Interests: HIV immunopathology

Research Interests: Autoimmunity, Type 1 Diabetes, T cells, Myeloid derived suppressor cells.

Research Interests: Improvement of cancer immunotherapy and development of cancer vaccines.

Research Interests: My research is focused on clinical immunology, neuroimmunology and autoimmunity. The current projects include the immunobiology of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism and schizophrenia. We are also interested in the maternal gestational immune environment and how dysregulation of the maternal immune system impacts offspring development.

Research Interests: My research centers on central nervous system glial development and glial diseases.

Research Interests: Cancer immunotherapy, viral immunology, preclinical modeling.

Research Interests: Autoimmune diseases with focus on the molecular basis of primary biliary cholangitis. Food Allergy : Metabolomics and allergen specific immunotherapy in seafood allergy.

Research Interests: My research focuses on neuro-immune interactions at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) as a relevant contributor to neuroinflammation and consequent neurodegeneration. My long-term goal is to contribute to the identification of non-immunosuppressive and sex-specific therapeutic targets, specifically by elucidating 1) triggering factors of BBB dysfunction, 2) their role in neuropathogenesis and neuroinflammation, and 3) their association with sex-biased autoimmune disorders (e.g. multiple sclerosis).