Faculty

Jacqueline M. Achkar, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor
jacqueline.achkar@einsteinmed.org

Human host responses to M. tuberculosis - TB biomarkers and diagnostics; Correlates of M. tuberculosis infection activity; Protective antibody responses and functions against M. tuberculosis

Stephen Baum, M.D.
Professor
stephen.baum@einsteinmed.org

Senior Associate Dean for Students

Joan Berman, Ph.D.
Professor
joan.berman@einsteinmed.org

Mechanisms of NeuroAIDS: HIV associated neurocognitive disorders; HIV/host interactions; leukocyte transmigration across the blood-brain barrier

Michael Berney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
michael.berney@einsteinmed.org

Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolic plasticity; drug target discovery; microbial biochemistry in the host-pathogen context

Eva Billerbeck, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
eva.billerbeck@einsteinmed.org

Antiviral immunity, liver immunology, viral hepatitis

C. Fred Brewer, Ph.D.
Professor
fred.brewer@einsteinmed.org

Biochemical and biophysical analysis of lectin binding

Robert Burk, M.D.
Professor
robert.burk@einsteinmed.org

Papillomavirus pathogenesis and evolution; monkey model of papillomavirus cervical carcinogenesis; genetic basis of excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis); inherited contribution to prostate cancer

John Chan, M.D.
Professor
john.chan@einsteinmed.org

Pathogenesis of TB; tuberculous granuloma; TB latency and reactivation; development of TB vaccines

Kartik Chandran, Ph.D.
Professor
kartik.chandran@einsteinmed.org

Ebola and Marburg virus entry into cells; structure and function of viral fusion glycoproteins; virus-host interactions; viral genetics; antivirals

Johanna Daily, M.D.
Professor
johanna.daily@einsteinmed.org

Plasmodium falciparum; novel in vivo parasite biology; virulence determinants; host response to malaria infection

Felipe Diaz-Griffero, Ph.D.
Professor
felipe.diaz-griffero@einsteinmed.org

Biochemistry of HIV-1 uncoating; innate immunity against HIV-1 and other retroviruses; mechanistic studies onretroviral restriction factors

Teresa DiLorenzo, Ph.D.
Professor
teresa.dilorenzo@einsteinmed.org

Immunopathogenesis of type 1 diabetes; autoimmunity; humanized mouse models; T cells; immunology

David Fooksman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
david.fooksman@einsteinmed.org

In vivo plasma cell differentiation, migration, and physiology; multiple myeloma; Intra-vital multi-photon imaging

Nikolaos Frangogiannis, M.D.
Professor
nikolaos.frangogiannis@einsteinmed.org

Myocardial inflammation and repair, cardiac fibrosis, chemokines, TGF-beta signaling, matricellular proteins

Victoria Freedman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
victoria.freedman@einsteinmed.org

Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the Biologic Sciences

David Goldman, M.D.
Associate Professor
david.goldman@einsteinmed.org

Fungal pathogenesis; Cryptococcus neoformans; asthma; anthrax

Harris Goldstein, M.D.
Professor
harris.goldstein@einsteinmed.org

HIV pathogenesis; TCR structure-function analysis; genetic programming of specific protective immune responses; genetic manipulation of transplanted beta cells to resist rejection

Claudia Gravekamp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
claudia.gravekamp@einsteinmed.org

Listeria monocytogenes; metastatic breast cancer; tumor immunology; Listeria-based cancer vaccines

Larry Herbst, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor
larry.herbst@einsteinmed.org

Animal models of infectious disease; effects of adventitious infections on research; novel transforming viruses

Betsy Herold, M.D.
Professor
betsy.herold@einsteinmed.org

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection; synergy between HSV and HIV; microbicide development; genital tract mucosal immunity

William Jacobs, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
william.jacobs@einsteinmed.org

Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetics; mycobacteriophages; extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB); tuberculosis vaccines; mechanism of isoniazid action

Elina Jerschow, M.D.
Associate Professor
elina.jerschow@einsteinmed.org

Immunopathogenesis of aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD)

Ganjam Kalpana, Ph.D.
Professor
ganjam.kalpana@einsteinmed.org

HIV-1 host-virus interaction; rhabdoid tumors biology; INI1/hSNF5 tumor suppressor mechanisms; novel therapeutic strategies for rhabdoid tumors

Libusha Kelly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
libusha.kelly@einsteinmed.org

We study how ecosystem-level genetic variability influences adaptive responses to dynamic environments.

Michelle Larsen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
michelle.larsen@einsteinmed.org

TB vaccine development, Drug-resistant TB, Rapid TB diagnostics, Wildlife and livestock TB, Mycobacterial genetics

Grégoire Lauvau, Ph.D.
Professor
gregoire.lauvau@einsteinmed.org

Protective immunological memory; antimicrobial immunity in vivo; effector functions; microbial pathogenesis

Jack Lenz, Ph.D.
Professor
jack.lenz@einsteinmed.org

Molecular genetics of retroviral diseases

Thomas Leyh, Ph.D.
Professor
tom.leyh@einsteinmed.org

Mechanisms of sulfate activation in Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Allison Martin, M.D.
Assistant Professor
allison.martin@einsteinmed.org

Tumor immunology of CNS tumors: immune checkpoint molecules, oncogenic drivers, translational therapeutics, syngeneic mouse models

Joshua Nosanchuk, M.D.
Professor
josh.nosanchuk@einsteinmed.org

Fungal pathogenesis; histoplasmosis; lipid biology in Candida; antimicrobial therapeutics

Liise-anne Pirofski, M.D.
Professor
pirofski@einsteinmed.org

Immunity to encapsulated pathogens; antibody immunity; vaccine development

Steven Porcelli, M.D.
Professor and Chair
steven.porcelli@einsteinmed.org

Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis; immune evasion by mycobacteria; human and mouse Natural Killer T cells; lipid antigen presentation by CD1

Vinayaka Prasad, Ph.D.
Professor
vinayaka.prasad@einsteinmed.org

HIV-1 reverse transcriptase; aptamer therapeutics for HIV/AIDS; viral determinants of HIV-associated dementia

David Rosenstreich, M.D.
Professor
david.rosenstreich@einsteinmed.org

Chronic urticaria treatment; asthma epidemiology; chronic sinusitis epidemiology; immunological effects of mercury

Arye Rubinstein, M.D.
Professor
arye.rubinstein@einsteinmed.org

Common variable immunodeficiency; primary immunodeficiency; HIV infection

Yaron Tomer, M.D., FACP.
Professor
ytomer@montefiore.org

Immunopathogenesis of type 1 diabetes, immunopathogenesis of autoimmune thyroiditis, epigenetics of type 1 diabetes, epigenetics of autoimmune thyroiditis, environmental triggers of type 1 diabetes

Xingxing Zang, M.Med., Ph.D.
Professor
xing-xing.zang@einsteinmed.org

T cell costimulation and coinhibition; cancer; autoimmune diseases; infection