Program Members
Co-Leaders
DiMaio, Daniel
- Office:(203) 785-2684
Yarbrough, Wendell
Clinical Interests:head & neck cancer; ent cancer, oral cancer, oropharyngeal cancer;throat cancer, laryngeal cancer;voice box cancer, head and neck cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, human papilloma virus, human papillomavirus, salivary cancer, acidic cell carcinoma, adenoid cystic, adenoid cystic carcinoma, mucoepidermoid, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, thyroid cancer, well-differentiated thyroid cancer, medullary cancer, medullary, papillary thyroid cancer, papillary, follicular thyroid cancer, follicular, anaplastic thyroid cancer, anaplastic, lymphoma, skin cancer, melanoma, lip cancer, tongue cancer, tonsil cancer, base of tongue cancer, nasal cancer, sinus cancer, esthesioneuroblastoma, buccal cancer, palate cancer, soft palate, hard palate, soft palate cancer, soft palate cancer
- Office:(203) 785-4862
- Appt:(203) 785-2593
Members
Brandsma, Janet
Research Interests:Molecular biology of papillomavirus pathogenesis; Development of protective and therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated disease; Vaccines; Virology
- Office:(203) 785-4401
El-Guindy, Ayman
Research Interests:DNA replication; tumor virus; herpesvirus; oncogenic; transcription factor; replication protein; phosphorylation; protein modification; kinase
Hudnall, Stanley
Research Interests:Tumor immunology; Chronic inflammation; Tumor viruses
- Office:(203) 737-1221
Iwasaki, Akiko
Research Interests:Innate immunity; Autophagy; Inflammasomes; sexually transmitted infections; Herpes simplex virus; human papillomavirus;respiratory virus infections; Influenza infection; T cell immunity; Commensal bacteria
- Office:(203) 785-2919
- Lab:(203) 785-7662
Judson, Benjamin
- Appt:(203) 785-2593
Kaech, Susan
Research Interests:Mechanisms of memory T cell development; Developmental Biology; Immunobiology; Immunology; Vaccine; Immunobiology; T-Cells; Vaccines; Adaptive immunity and immunological memory to viruses
- Office:(203) 737-2423
- Lab:(203) 785-7661
Kumar, Priti
Research Interests:RNA interference (RNAi)-based strategies for treating viral infections
- Office:(203) 737-3580
Lindenbach, Brett
Research Interests:Cell Biology; Enveloped Viruses; Hepatitis; Hepatitis C Virus; Molecular Biology; Positive-strand RNA Viruses; RNA; Virology; Virus
- Office:(203) 785-4705
- Lab:(203) 785-2377
Means, Robert
Research Interests:Viruses; Immune responses; AIDS-associated cancers; KSHV; Adverse pregnancy events; Oncogenesis; Cancer metabolism; Tumor virology; Herpesviruses
- Office:(203) 785-6160
- Lab:(203) 785-7614
Miller, I George, Jr
Research Interests:Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV); Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV); Tumor virology
- Office:(203) 785-4758
- Appt:(203) 785-4730
Mothes, Walther
Research Interests:cell biology; retroviral replication; retroviruses; immune; viral biology; genetic; biochemical; cell imaging; Viral entry and exit; Retroviruses including HIV
- Office:(203) 737-2203
Pyle, Anna Marie
Research Interests:Structure and function of catalytic RNA; RNA helicase mechanisms; Computational analysis of RNA structure
- Office:(203) 432-5633
Robek, Michael
Research Interests:Virus-host interactions; viral immunology; hepatitis viruses; interferon
- Office:(203) 785-6174
- Lab:(203) 785-7672
Rose, John
Research Interests:Virology; Vaccine and gene expression vectors based on rhabdoviruses; Membrane protein assembly, transport and targeting; Viral assembly
- Office:(203) 785-6184
- Lab:(203) 785-6186
Santin, Alessandro
Research Interests:Mutational landscape of gynecolocic tumors; Therapeutic vaccine development for gynecologic malignancies; Tumor immunology; Immunotherapy; Tumor angiogenesis; Radiation biology; Experimental therapeutics in gynecologic oncology
- Office:(203) 737-4450
- Appt:(203) 200-4176
Schlieker, Christian
Research Interests:Alternative nuclear transport (nuclear egress), Protein quality control and its relation to viral pathogenesis, DYT1 Dystonia
- Office:(203) 432-5035
Shebl, Fatma
Research Interests:HCV response to treatment; Natural history of HCV infection; Immune response; Infection-related cancer; Cancer epidemiology; Cancer immunology; Inflammation; Research methodology
Steitz, Joan
Research Interests:Autoantibodies; Gene Expression; RNA; RNA Processing; SnRNPs; Viral Transformation
- Office:(203) 737-4418
Sutton, Richard
Research Interests:HIV replication and the development of small animal models of HIV; HIV vectors; HIV replication and gene transfer into non-dividing cells
- Office:(203) 737-3648
- Lab:(203) 737-3632
Tattersall, Peter
Research Interests:Biochemistry; Genetics; Parvoviruses; DNA replication; Gene therapy; Oncolytic virus; Vaccines; Vectors; Viral replication and vectors
- Office:(203) 785-4586
- Lab:(203) 785-6517
Van den Pol, Anthony
Research Interests:Hypothalamus; neuroendocrinology; neural control of energy homeostasis; neuropeptide modulation of amino acid transmitter actions; hypocretin/orexin and MCH neurons; Neurovirology; viral vectors; oncolytic viruses
- Office:(203) 785-5823
Xiong, Yong
Research Interests:Innate immune systems; HIV; fatty acid synthase (FAS); polyketide synthase (PKS); Viral vectors
- Office:(203) 436-2608
Yarbrough, Wendell
Research Interests:Head and neck oncology; Salivary oncology; Mouse modeling of human cancer; Human-in-mouse cancer models; Tumor suppressor activity; Molecular defects in cancer; NF-kappa B; NF-kB; Signaling; DNA damage; Human papilloma virus; HPV
- Office:(203) 785-4862
- Appt:(203) 785-2593
