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People who work in Immune-mediated diseases

People studying allergic asthma and autoimmune diseases (including diabetes, multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel diseases) at the molecular and cellular level.

Want to study for a PhD in this area? See the Immunology and Infectious Diseases graduate program.

Faculty
Name Email/phone Interests include:
August, Avery  
  • Associate Professor of Immunology
  • Co-chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular Medicine
axa45@psu.edu
814-863-3539
   (University Park) 		Signal transduction pathways that regulate immune function; in particular, role of Tec family tyrosine kinases in T cells and mast cells. How manipulation of these signals affect immune response in diseases such as allergic asthma.
Bonneau, Robert  
  • Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
rhb3@psu.edu
717-531-4078
   (Hershey) 		Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying stress-induced, neuroendocrine-mediated modulation of the immune response to herpes simplex virus infections.
Cantorna, Margherita  
  • Associate Professor in Molecular Immunology
  • Co-chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Immunology and Infectious Diseases
mxc69@psu.edu
814-863-2819
   (University Park) 		Vitamin D regulation of autoimmunity, especially inflammatory bowel diseases. Molecular and cellular regulation of host immunity, and regulation by nutrients.
Craig, Timothy  
  • Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
tcraig@psu.edu
717-531-5785
   (Hershey) 		Rhinitis and its effects on sleep and daytime somnolence; allergic rhinitis and asthma.
Gardner, Thomas  
  • Professor of Ophthalmology, and Cellular and Molecular Physiology
tgardner@psu.edu
717-531-8783
   (Hershey) 		Mechanisms of cellular injury in the retina which lead to retinopathy, especially factors that change tight junction protein expression. Changes in the neural retina in diabetes.
Norbury, Chris  
  • Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
ccn1@psu.edu
717-531-7204
   (Hershey) 		The role of macrophages and dendritic cells in antigen presentation, antiviral immunity and in chronic inflammation during diabetes.
Xiong, Na  
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
  • Director, Transgenic Mouse Facility
nux1@psu.edu
814-863-2933
   (University Park) 		Development and function of gamma/delta T cells, a class of immune cells with various roles in microbial immunity, inflammation regulation and tumor surveillance.