Program Training Faculty From Other Drexel Colleges/Schools
College/School: Engineering
Research Interests: Designing nano-formulations to modulate innate immune cells as potential therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and transplantation rejection; diagnostics for autoinflammatory diseases; targeted adjuvants to generate antigen specific immunity of chronic viral infections like HIV and hepatitis.
College/School: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Research Interests: Development of innovative engineering platforms and analytical methods to advance understanding and control of immunotherapies.
College/School: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Research Interests: Macrophage-biomaterial interactions, drug delivery systems and chronic wound healing.
College/School: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Research Interests: Protein interactions in health and disease, structure-based antagonism of HIV-1 Env, recombinant protein/peptidomimetic/small molecule inhibitor design and mechanism of action.
Program Resource Faculty
Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Protein interactions in health and disease, structure-based antagonism of HIV-1 Env, recombinant protein/peptidomimetic/small molecule inhibitor design and mechanism of action.
Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Medical and graduate student education; previous research focused on structure-based drug design studies for development of immune-regulatory compounds
Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Optimal protection from HSV-1 infection provided by interactions between innate and acquired immune responses.
Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Macrophage tropism and neurotropism of HIV-1; cellular senescence during HIV-1 infection and HIV-1 neuropathogenesis; innate immune responses to HIV-1 infection in macrophages, microglia and dendritic cells; microRNAs and HIV-1.
Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Innovative biomedical graduate education, with a specific focus on online course design and course development.
Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Characterization of glycoproteomic biomarkers for hepatocellular carcinoma, induction of novel immune responses by agents that alter N-glycan processing.
Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Impact of HIV infection on colorectal cancer, and the role of the HIV-1 Nef protein; impact of age and HIV/HCV coinfection on HIV-1 replication, pathogenesis and immune activation profiles.
Affiliate Training Faculty
Siddharth Balachandran, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Tim Block, PhD
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
Ju-Tao Guo, PhD
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
Alexander Muller, PhD
Lankenau Institute for Medical Research
Glen Rall, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Ying-Hsiu Su, PhD
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
* Physician's practice is independent of Drexel Medicine and Drexel University.