Graduate students in the Experimental Pathology PhD Program benefit from laboratory training that emphasizes clinical and translational aspects of human disease. Although many investigators on the University of Iowa biomedical campus focus on various aspects of human disease, this is true of every laboratory-based researcher in the Department of Pathology. Moreover, in addition to utilizing standard mouse and cell-based approaches, our research faculty routinely use human patient substrate in their research and/or are bringing new therapies to the clinic.
| Vladimir Badovinac | Immune anergy after sepsis; T cell responses to pathogens |
| Dustin Bosch | Intestinal commensal interbacterial interactions |
| Alexander Boyden | B cells in CNS autoimmune demyelinating disease; B:T interactions |
| Hasem Habelhah | Inflammation in cancer initiation and progression |
| John Harty | T cell responses to malaria and influenza |
| Marco Hefti | Tau in brain development and neurodegenerative disease |
| Zizhen Kang | Immunology of neurodegenerative diseases, mucosal immunity |
| Nitin Karandikar | Basis of autoimmune disease (emphasis on M.S.) |
| Kevin Legge | T cell response to influenza; Universal influenza vaccines |
| Bing Li | Role of fatty acid binding proteins in immune cell function |
| Jia Luo | Effect of alcohol in neurodegeneration, pancreatitis and breast cancer |
| Ashu Mangalam | Effect of microbiome on autoimmune disease (emphasis on M.S.) |
| Steven Moore | Pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy |
| Steven Offer | Colorectal cancer initiation and progression |
| Munir Tanas | Genetic basis of carcinogenesis (emphasis on sarcoma) |
| Shujie Yang | Targeted therapies in endometrial cancer |