Faculty Mentors
Behdad (Ben) Afzali, MD, PhD
Stadtman Investigator
Immunoregulation Section, Kidney Diseases Branch
Suggested Penn Mentors: Warren Pear, Taku Kambayashi, Ed Behrens
Nihal Altan-Bonnet, PhD
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Dynamics
Suggested Penn mentors: Sara Cherry, Kellie Jurado, Susan Weiss, Ike Eisenlohr
Andre Ballesteros-Tato, PhD
Chief, Adaptive Immunity and Immunoregulation Section
Laboratory of Allergic Diseases
Daniel L. Barber, PhD
Chief, T-Lymphocyte Biology Section
Yasmine Belkaid, PhD
Chief, Metaorganism Immunity Section
Chief, Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome
Suggested Penn mentors: Chris Hunter, Taku Kambayashi
Avinash Bhandoola, MB, BS, PhD
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Genome Integrity
Suggested Penn mentors: Dave Allman
Jason Brenchley, PhD
Senior Investigator
Barrier Immunity Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Beatrice Hahn, Una O'Doherty, James Hoxie, Luis Montaner, Katharine Bar
Rachel Caspi, PhD
Senior Investigator
Immunoregulation Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Igor Brodsky
Wanjun Chen, MD
Senior Investigator
Mucosal Immunology Section
Immunology, Inflammation and Microbiology
Sensory Biology and Pain
Suggested Penn mentors: Taku Kambayashi, Christoph Thaiss
Alex Compton, PhD
Investigator
HIV Dynamics and Replication Program
Suggested Penn mentors: Sara Cherry, Kellie Jurado, Sunny Shin
Daniel Douek, MD, PhD
Chief, Human Immunology Section
Chief, Genome Analysis Core
Suggested Penn mentors: Amelia Escolano, Laura Vella, Maayan Levy, Michela Locci, Norbert Pardi, John Wherry, Scott Hensley
Iain Fraser, PhD
Chief, Signaling Systems Section
Ronald Germain, MD, PhD
Chief, Laboratory of Immune System Biology
Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Susan Weiss, John Wherry, Andy Minn, Jenny Jiang
Romina Goldszmid, PhD
Stadtman Investigator
Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology
Suggested Penn mentors: Malay Haldar, Chengcheng Jin, Nan Zhang, Sunny Shin, Igor Brodsky
Tim F. Greten, MD
Senior Investigator
Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch
Suggested Penn mentors: Carl June, Chengcheng Jin, Christoph Thaiss, Gary Wu
Peng Jiang, PhD
Stadtman Investigator
Cancer Data Science Laboratory
Suggested Penn mentors: Jenny Jiang, Michael Millone, John Wherry, Robert Vonderheide, Carl June
Mariana J. Kaplan, MD
Senior Investigator
Systemic Autoimmunity Branch
Suggested Penn mentors: Terri Laufer, Scott Canna, Jonathan Miner, Michael May
Vanja Lazarevic, PhD
Senior Investigator
Experimental Immunology Branch
Suggested Penn mentors: Golnaz Vahedi, Will Bailis, Warren Pear, Jorge Henao Mejia, Jorge Alvarez
Beatriz Leon, PhD
Chief, Innate Cells and Th2 Immunity Section
Laboratory of Allergic Diseases
Michail Lionakis, MD, ScD
Chief, Fungal Pathogenesis Section
Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology
Suggested Penn mentors: Jonathan Miner, Neil Romberg
P’ng Loke, PhD
Chief, Type 2 Immunity Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Igor Brodsky, De'Broski Herbert, Nan Zhang, Taku Kambayashi
Paul E. Love, PhD, MD
Senior Investigator
Section on Hematopoiesis and Lymphocyte Biology
Suggested Penn mentors: Warren Pear, Michael Millone, Ivan Maillard
Christian T. Mayer, PhD
Stadtman Investigator
Experimental Immunology Branch
Suggested Penn mentors: Cornelius Taabazuing, Igor Brodsky, Michela Locci
Niki Moutsopoulos, DDS, PhD
Associate Scientific Director
TT/ACI Faculty Development
Oral Immunity & Infection Section
Suggested Penn mentors: George Hajishengallis
Stefan Muljo, PhD
Chief, Integrative Immunobiology Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Craig H. Bassing, Will Bailis
Avindra Nath, MD
Senior Investigator
Section of Infections of the Nervous System
Suggested Penn Mentors: Dennis Kolson, Amit O’Bar, James Hoxie
Aleksandra Nita-Lazar, PhD
Senior Investigator
Cellular Networks Proteomic Unit
Suggested Penn mentors: : Igor Brodsky, Sara Cherry, Christopher Hunter, Sunny Shin, Kai Tan
Luigi D. Notarangelo, MD
Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology
Chief, Immune Deficiency Genetics Section
Jung-Hyun Park, PhD
Senior Investigator
Experimental Immunology Branch
Suggested Penn mentors: Chris Hunter, Hamid Bassiri, Andrew Wells
Theodore C. Pierson, PhD
Chief, Viral Pathogenesis Section
Chief, Laboratory of Viral Disease
Pamela L. Schwartzberg, MD, PhD
Chief, Cell Signaling and Immunity Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Sarah Henrickson, Michela Locci
Robert Seder, MD
Chief, Cellular Immunology Section
Suggested Penn mentors: John Wherry, Rob Vanderheide, Michael Povelones, Amelia Escolano, Norbert Pardi
Han-Yu Shih, PhD
Stadtman Investigator
Neuro-Immune Regulome Unit
Suggested Penn mentors: Kelly Jordan Sciuto, Jorge Alvarez, Chris Hunter
Helen Su, MD, PhD
Chief, Human Immunological Diseases Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Sarah Cherry
Roxane Tussiwand, PhD
Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator
Immune Regulation Unit
Suggested Penn mentors: Ed Behrens, Malay Haldar, Ike Eisenlohr
Chuan Wu, MD, PhD
Stadtman Investigator
Experimental Immunology Branch
Suggested Penn mentors: Joe Zackular, Michael Abt, Gary Wu, Christoph Thaiss
Jonathan Wilson Yewdell, MD, PhD
Chief, Cellular Biology Section
Suggested Penn mentors: Scott Hensely
Matthew Wolf, PhD
Stadtman Investigator
Cancer Innovation Laboratory
Chen Zhao, MD
Assistant Clinical Investigator
Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch
Suggested Penn mentors: Chengcheng Jin
Jinfang (Jeff) Zhu, PhD
Chief, Molecular and Cellular Immunoregulation Section