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

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

Michael Lenardo, MD

Chief, Molecular Development of the Immune System Section
Co-Director, NIAID Clinical Genomics Program
Suggested Penn mentors: John Wherry, Sarah Cherry, and Jan Burkhardt

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: Michael Cancro, David Allman, Igor Brodsky

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

Luigi D. Notarangelo, MD

Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology
Chief, Immune Deficiency Genetics Section

Andre Nussenzweig, PhD

NIH Distinguished Investigator
Laboratory of Genome Integrity

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

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