Tian Wang, PhD

Dr. Wang's research focuses on understanding of immune response to West Nile virus infection in protection and pathogenesis. West Nile virus, a vector-borne pathogen, has resulted in annual outbreaks of viral encephalitis in North America since 1999. Using murine infection model, her current work explores immune factors contributing to the development of long-lasting protective immunity against West Nile virus. Aging is a known risk factor for West Nile virus induced encephalitis. The decline in immunity seen in the elderly is one of the significant contributors to the increased risk of infection. Her lab also studies whether the dysfunction of immune factors in aged mice leads to a defective adaptive immunity.

Faculty Members

A Paige Adams, DVM, PhD Terumi Midoro-Horiuti, MD, PhD
Christine Arcari, PhD, MPH Gregg N Milligan, PhD
Beth Auslander, PhD Vladimir L Motin, PhD
Samuel Baron, MD Martin G Myers, MD
Alan DT Barrett, PhD Joan E Nichols, PhD
David WC Beasley, PhD David W Niesel, PhD
Abdelhakim Ben Nasr, PhD Juan P. Olano, MD
Dennis A. Bente, DVM, PhD Slobodan Paessler, DVM, PhD
Abbey B Berenson, MD, MMS, PhD Janak A Patel, MD
Nigel Bourne, PhD Clarence J Peters, MD
Donald Bouyer, PhD Johnny Peterson, PhD
Werner A Braun, PhD Anson Pierce, PhD
Alexander Bukreyev, PhD Richard B Pyles, PhD
Antonella Casola, MD Vincente Resto, MD, PhD
Tasnee Chonmaitree, MD Victor E Reyes, PhD
Ashok K Chopra, PhD, CSc Barry Rockx, PhD
Yingzi Cong, PhD Jai Rudra, PhD
Kathryn A Cunningham, PhD Richard Rupp, MD
Melanie de Boer, PhD Kwabena O Sarpong, MD
Tonya Eaves-Pyles, PhD Catherine H. Schein, PhD
Janice Endsley, PhD Michael B Sherman, PhD
Marxa L. Figueiredo, PhD Lynn Soong, MD, PhD
Naomi Forrester, PhD Robin Stephens, PhD
Alex Freiberg, PhD Jiaren Sun, MD, PhD
Nisha Garg, PhD Robert B Tesh, MD
Roberto Garofalo, MD Nagaraja Thirumalapura, PhD
Randall M Goldblum, MD Alfredo G Torres, PhD
Stephen Higgs, PhD (adjunct faculty) Bruno Travi, DVM, PhD
Michael R Holbrook, PhD (adjunct faculty) Dennis Trent, PhD
Clifford Houston, PhD Chien-Te (Kent) Tseng, PhD
Tetsuro Ikegami, DVM, PhD Robert Ullrich, PhD
George Jackson, MD, PhD Michael P Underbrink, MD, MBA
Rakez Kayed, PhD Gustavo Valbuena, MD, PhD
Rolf Konig, PhD Dana Vanlandingham, PhD
Thomas G. Ksiazek, DVM, PhD David H Walker, MD
James LeDuc, PhD Tian Wang, PhD
James C Lee, PhD Stan Watowich, PhD
Bruce A Luxon, PhD Scott C Weaver, PhD
Shinji Makino, DVM, PhD Susan C Weller, PhD
Peter Mason, PhD (adjunct faculty) MinKyung Yi, PhD
Jere W McBride, PhD Xue-Jie Yu, MD, PhD
Peter Melby, MD
Last updated: February 2013