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Faculty

Our faculty includes over 30 doctoral-level scientists involved in research, education and research support. The major research areas are infectious diseases and Regenerative Medicine. In the last year the TNPRC supported research by over 280 scientists from 32 states and 13 countries. For more information on recent Faculty Publications and Faculty Presentations please follow these links.

Division of Bacteriology & Parasitology

Division email: TNPRC-BactPar@tulane.edu

Division Chair: Mario T. Philipp, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Faculty	Appointment	Primary Academic Home	Interests
Embers, Monica E. PhD PubMed	Assistant Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	Lyme disease, primate Moraxella, Brucellosis
Kaushal, Deepak PhD PubMed	Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	TB/AIDS co-infections; transcriptomics, systems biology, microRNAs, biodefense
Philipp, Mario T. PhD PubMed	Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	Lyme disease, Streptococcus pneumoniae

Division of Comparative Pathology

Division email: TNPRC-ComPath@tulane.edu

Division Chair: Ronald S. Veazey, DVM, PhD, Professor of Pathology

Faculty	Appointment	Primary Academic Home	Interests
Alvarez, Xavier PhD PubMed	Associate Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	AIDS neuropathogenesis, immunology
Annaiah, Cariappa M.B.B.S., M.D. PubMed	Assistant Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	faculty mentoring programs, student programs
Aye, Pyone DVM, PhD PubMed Blair, Robert DVM	Associate Professor Assistant Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine	infectious diseases, HIV pathogenesis, immunology
Bouljihad, Mostafa T. DVM, PhD PubMed	Assistant Professor	..., School of Medicine	infectious and neoplastic diseases, comparative respiratory pathobiology
Didier, Peter DVM, PhD PubMed	Professor	Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine	tuberculosis, West Nile Virus, microsporidiosis
Lackner, Andrew A. DVM, PhD PubMed	Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	pathogenesis of AIDS, infectious diseases
Ling, Binhua MD, PhD PubMed	Assitant Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	HIV/SIV reservoir, HIV/SIV drug therapy and vaccine, immune correlates of protection
MacLean, Andrew PhD PubMed	Assistant Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	AIDS neuropathogenesis, blood-brain barrier
Mohan, Mahesh DVM, MS, PhD PubMed	Associate Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	AIDS pathogenesis/ Enteropathy, Epigenetics, Gastrointestinal Diseases, microRNAs
Pahar, Bapi DVM, PhD PubMed	Associate Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	AIDS immunology, infectious diseases
Veazey, Ronald S. DVM, PhD PubMed	Professor	Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine	AIDS pathogenesis, mucosal immunology
Wang, Xiaolei, PhD PubMed	Assistant Professor	Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine	mucosal immunology, pathogenesis of pediatric AIDS
Xu, Huanbin MD, PhD PubMed Non-Tulane Core Scientist Rowlett, James PhD	Assistant Professor	Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine UMMC	AIDS pathogenesis and Immunity; Immune reconstitution and vaccine; Innate immunity Neuroscience of drug abuse and aging

Division of Regenerative Medicine

Division email: TNPRC-Rege@tulane.edu

Division Chair: Bruce A. Bunnell, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology

Faculty	Appointment	Primary Academic Home	Interests
Bunnell, Bruce A. PhD PubMed	Professor	Pharmacology, School of Medicine	Regenerative Medicine, stem cell biology, Krabbe's disease
Braun, Stephen E. PhD PubMed	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology, School of Medicine	Regenerative Medicine for AIDS, hematopoietic stem cells, vector immunology, lysosomal storage diseases

Division of Immunology

Division email: mailto:TNPRC-Immun@tulane.edu

Division Chair: Marcelo J. Kuroda MD, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Faculty	Appointment	Primary Academic Home	Interests
Kaur, Amitinder, MD PubMed	Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	AIDS pathogenesis, Innate immunity, Host-pathogen interaction, Cellular immunity, Herpesvirus infections
Kuroda, Marcelo J. MD, PhD PubMed	Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	AIDS and aging immunology, influenza
Rout, Namita, PhD PubMed	Assistant Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	Microbial Pathogenesis and Inflammation, Mucosal immunity, T cell biology

Division of Microbiology

Division email: TNPRC-Micro@tulane.edu

Interim Division Chair: Panganiban, Antonito, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Faculty	Appointment	Primary Academic Home	Interests
Didier, Elizabeth S. PhD PubMed	Professor	Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine	microsporidiosis, emerging infection, immunology, aging
Maness, Nicholas J. PhD PubMed	Assistant Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	HIV/SIV virology and immunology, next gen sequencing, correlates of viral control
Marx, Preston A. PhD PubMed	Professor	Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine	AIDS pathogenesis and vaccine development, immunology, origins of HIV
Mehra, Smriti PhD PubMed	Associate Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	Tuberculosis
Panganiban, Antonito PhD PubMed	Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	RNA virus replication and pathogenesis, emerging viruses
Roy, Chad PhD PubMed	Associate Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	infectious disease aerobiology, bioaerosols, primate models of disease, aerosol science
Traina-Dorge, Vicki PhD PubMed Non-Tulane Core Scientist Sestak, Karol PhD, DMV	Associate Professor	Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine	Human and Simian T cell Leukemia Viruses, Varicella Virus

Division of Veterinary Medicine

Division email: mailto:TNPRC-VetMed@tulane.edu

Division Chair: Rudolf P. Bohm, Jr., DVM, Associate Director for Veterinary Resources, Professor of Clinical Medicine

Faculty	Appointment	Primary Academic Home	Interests
Aye, Pyone DVM, PhD PubMed	Associate Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	infectious diseases, HIV pathogenesis, immunology
Baker, Kate PhD PubMed	Research Professor	Psychology, School of Science and Engineering	psychological wellbeing, nonhuman primate behavior
Blanchard, James L. DVM, PhD PubMed	Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	SIV/AIDS, veterinary medicine
Bohm Jr., Rudolf P. DVM PubMed	Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	surgical model development, veterinary medicine
Doyle-Meyers, Lara A. DVM	Associate Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	veterinary medicine
Dufour, Jason DVM PubMed	Assistant Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	veterinary medicine
Gilbert, Margaret H. DVM PubMed	Assistant Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	veterinary medicine, nonhuman primate social behavior
Grasperge, Brooke F. DVM PubMed	Assistant Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	veterinary medicine
Kubisch, Michael PhD PubMed	Associate Professor	Physiology, School of Medicine	assisted reproductive technologies, genetics, population genetics
Ratterree, Marion DVM PubMed	Assistant Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine	assisted reproductive technologies, AIDS
Russell-Lodrigue, Kasi E. DVM, PhD PubMed Taylor, Joshua DVM Non-Tulane Core Scientist Vallendar, Eric PhD	Assistant Professor Assistant Professor	Medicine, School of Medicine Medicine, School of Medicine UMMC	veterinary medicine, infectious disease model development Comparative evolutionary genetics

Faculty Editorial Responsibilities

Faculty	Journal	Type
Blanchard, James L. DVM, PhD	Journal of Medical Primatology	Member-Editorial Board
Bohm Jr., Rudolf P. DVM	Journal of Medical Primatology	Member-Editorial Board
Bunnell, Bruce A. PhD	Journal of Molecular Therapy Stem Cells The Open Stem Cell Journal Stem Cells International World Journal of Stem Cells BMC Genomics Biotechnology International	Member-Editorial Board Editor Member-Editorial Board Member-Editorial Board Member-Editorial Board Member-Editorial Board
Didier, Elizabeth S. PhD	Folia Parasitologica	Member-Editorial Board
Didier, Peter DVM, PhD	Journal of Medical Primatology	Member-Editorial Board
Kaushal, Deepak PhD	Public Library of Science ONE Reports in Parasitology Mycobacterial Diseases: Tuberculosis and Leprosy	Academic Editor Editor-in-Chief Editor
Kubisch, Michael PhD	Reproduction, Fertility and Development	Associate Editor
Lackner, Andrew A. DVM, PhD	AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses American Journal of Pathology	Member-Editorial Board Associate Editor
Ling, Binhua MD, PhD	Chinese Journal of Viral Diseases Infectious Diseases and Translational Medicine	Foreign Member-Editorial Board Associate Editor
Marx, Preston A. PhD	Journal of Medical Primatology	Editor-in-Chief
Pahar, Bapi DVM, PhD	Journal of Applied Research in Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics	Member-Editorial Board
Philipp, Mario T. PhD	Frontiers in Microbial Immunology Infection and Immunity Journal of Medical Primatology Revista Argentina de Microbiología Revista Latinoamericana de Microbiología	Associate Editor Member-Editorial Board Member-Editorial Board Foreign Member-Editorial Board Foreign Member-Editorial Board
Roy, Chad PhD	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Clinical and Vaccine Immunology	Associate Editor Member-Editorial Board
Veazey, Ronald S. DVM, PhD	Journal of Medical Primatology AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses	Member-Editorial Board Member-Editorial Board