Host Defense & Vaccine Development
Alan Barbour, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
lyme disease, spirochaetes
Lbachir BenMohamed, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Ophthalmology
Michael Buchmeier, Ph.D.
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.
Thomas Burke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Rickettisa, bacterial pathogenesis
Huw Davies, Ph.D.
Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Vaccine Research & Development Center, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
vaccine development, Influenza
Philip L. Felgner, Ph.D.
Director of the UCI Vaccine Research and Development Center and the Protein Microarray Laboratory and Training Facility
vaccine development, COVID-19, Q-Fever
Donald Forthal, M.D.
Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Center for Virus Research. He is also Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases.
HIV, Dengue
Thomas E. Lane, Ph.D.
Chancellor's Professor in Neurobiology & Behavior and Director of the Center for Virus Research
coronaviruses, multiple sclerosis
Melissa B Lodoen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Toxoplasma, innate immunity
Matthew D Marsden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
HIV, humanized mice
Eric Pearlman, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology and Physiology & Biophysics; Director UCI Institute for Immunology.
fungal and bacterial infections, neutrophils
Albert Siryaporn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Physics & Astronomy
bacteria, anti-microbial
Lisa Wagar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
influenza, T and B cells, human tonsil organoids
Travis Wiles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Rickettisa, bacterial pathogenesis