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Program Faculty and Research Projects

Patricia Aguilar, PhD

https://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty/patricia-v-aguilar-phd

Werner Braun, PhD

Computational Tools for T- and B-cell Epitope Prediction

Xiaoyong Bao, PhD

https://scmm.utmb.edu/Researcher-Profiles/bao

Dennis Bente, PhD

https://microbiology.utmb.edu/faculty/dennis-a-bente-dvm-phd

Donald Bouyer, PhD

Pathological Evaluation of Host-Orientia Interactions

William Calhoun, PhD

Asthma Clinical Research Network

Ashok Chopra, PhD, CSc

Identification of New Antigens for a Plague Vaccine

Jianli Dong, MD, PhD

https://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty/jianli-dong-md-phd

Janice Endsley, PhD

https://microbiology.utmb.edu/faculty/janice-endsley-phd

Mark Endsley, PhD

https://researchexperts.utmb.edu/en/persons/mark-endsley 

Rong Fang, MD, PhD

https://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty/rong-fang-md-phd

Nisha Garg, PhD

Pathogenesis of Oxidative Stress in Chagasic Myocarditis

Haitao Hu, PhD

mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics, antiviral immunity, emerging viruses, HIV/AIDS 

Peter Kan, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FAANS

https://www.utmb.edu/neurosurgery/faculty-and-staff/peter-kan-md-mph-frcsc-faans

Jere McBride, PhD

Protective Glycopeptide Immunodeterminants of Ehrlichia

Richard Pyles, PhD

https://www.utmb.edu/sivs/faculty-directory-/utmb-members/richard-b.-pyles-phd

Krishna Rajarathnam, PhD

Chemokines Mediate Leukocyte Trafficking and Activation

Victor Reyes, PhD

Immune Evasion by H. pylori bacteria

Ping Ren, PhD

https://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty/ping-ren-phd

Lynn Soong, MD, PhD

Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to Leishmania Parasites

Jiaren Sun, MD, PhD

Immune Regulation of Viral Hepatitis in Mice

Alfredo Torres, PhD

Long Polar Fimbriae of Attaching and Effacing Escherichia coli

Randall Urban, MD

https://www.utmb.edu/internalmedicine/divisions/endocrinology/our-team/faculty/randall-j-urban

David H. Walker, MD

 

In vitro transcription and translation of Orientia tsutsugamushi Karp strain proteins suspected to be secreted determined by a bioinformatics approach will be
used to evaluate their ability to stimulate neutralizing antibodies.
These data are designed to make progress toward a vaccine for scrub typhus, a very important
and neglected tropical infectious disease.

Tian Wang, PhD

Vaccine Development, Host Immunity and Pathogenesis of Emerging and Remerging RNA viruses

Scott Weaver, MS, PhD

https://microbiology.utmb.edu/faculty/scott-weaver-phd

Ping Wu, MD, PhD

The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying microglia mediated
Zika viral transmission into embryo brains and the consequence of brain teratogenesis. 

Min Kyung Yi, PhD

https://microbiology.utmb.edu/faculty/minkyung-yi-phd

Jia Zhou, PhD

https://www.utmb.edu/phtox/faculty-staff-students/faculty-bios/jia-zhou