Academic Faculty
Scott Abrams, PhD
Associate Member, Department of Immunology
Associate Professor of Oncology, RPCI
Cytotoxic T cells, apoptosis, tumor escape, immunotherapy
Naveen Bangia, PhD
Assistant Member, Department of Immunology
Understanding Antigen Presentation by MHC class I Molecules and its Modulation in Tumor Cells
Xuefang Cao, PhD
Assistant Member, Department of Immunology
James L. Clements, PhD
Assistant Member, Department of Immunology
T cell development, T cell activation, signal transduction, chemokine synthesis
Myron Czuczman, MD
Associate Member, Department of Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, SUNY-UB
Sharon S. Evans, PhD
Member, Department of Immunology
Lymphocyte homing receptors, hyperthermia, adhesion molecules, vascular endothelium
Sandra O. Gollnick, PhD
Associate Member, Department of Cell Stress Biology
Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Immunology
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), cytokines, immunotherapy, inflammation
Bonnie Hylander, PhD
Affiliate Member, Department of Immumology
Danuta Kozbor, PhD
Associate Member, Department of Immunology
Kelvin P. Lee, MD
Member, Chair, Department of Immunology Vice Chair, Department of Medicine Jacobs Family Chair in Immunology
William J. Magner, PhD
Affiliate Member, Department of Immumology
Michael Nemeth, PhD
Assistant Member, Departments of Medicine and Immunology
John L. Pauly, PhD
Associate Member, Department of Immunology
Human lung immunotoxicology, human pulmonary macrophage, pro-inflammatory cytokine response
Elizabeth A. Repasky, PhD
Member, Department of Immunology
The Dr. William Huebsch Professorship in Immunology
Immunotherapy, lymphocytes, cancer vaccines, heat shock proteins, hyperthermia, tumor antigens
Sara L. Schneider, PhD
Affiliate Member, Immunomonitoring Facility
Brahm Segal, MD
Assistant Member, Department of Medicine
Ben K. Seon, PhD
Member, Department of Immunology
Angiogenesis, novel antigens, endoglin, CD231
Protul A. Shrikant, PhD
Associate Member, Department of Immunology
Tumor-specific T cells, tolerance, immunity, trafficking
Ashwani K. Sood, PhD
Assistant Member, Department of Immunology
Breast tumor antigen identification, breast cDNA microarrays, breast cancer prevention and therapy
Yasmin Thanavala, PhD
Member, Department of Immunology
Development and delivery of vaccines, hepatits B, C and HPV, oral vaccines, nanotechnology
James E. Thompson, MD
Staff Physician, Assistant Professor of Oncology, Department of Medicine
Assistant Member, Department of Immunology
Thomas B. Tomasi, MD, PhD
Member, Department of Immunology
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, SUNY-UB Professor of Medicine, SUNY-UB The M&T Chair in Cancer Research
MHC Class II genes, chromatin structure, trophoblast cells
Eunice Wang, MD
Assistant Member, Department of Immunology
Meir Wetzler, MD
Associate Member, Department of Immunology
Acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphoblast-derived dendritic cells


