Program Members
Co-Leaders
Daniel DiMaio
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Genetics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology
Scientific Director, Yale Cancer Center
Deputy Director, Yale Cancer Center
- Office:(203) 785-2684
Wendell Yarbrough
Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology)
Section Chief, Otolaryngology
Co-Director Molecular Virology Research Program
Director, Head & Neck Cancer Program, Smilow Cancer Hospital
Clinical Interests:head & neck cancer; ent cancer, oral cancer, oropharyngeal cancer;throat cancer, laryngeal cancer;voice box cancer, head and neck cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, human papilloma virus, human papillomavirus, salivary cancer, acidic cell carcinoma, adenoid cystic, adenoid cystic carcinoma, mucoepidermoid, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, thyroid cancer, well-differentiated thyroid cancer, medullary cancer, medullary, papillary thyroid cancer, papillary, follicular thyroid cancer, follicular, anaplastic thyroid cancer, anaplastic, lymphoma, skin cancer, melanoma, lip cancer, tongue cancer, tonsil cancer, base of tongue cancer, nasal cancer, sinus cancer, esthesioneuroblastoma, buccal cancer, palate cancer, soft palate, hard palate, soft palate cancer, soft palate cancer
- Office:(203) 785-4862
- Appt:(203) 785-2593
Members
Janet Brandsma
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Comparative Medicine and of Pathology
Research Interests:Molecular biology of papillomavirus pathogenesis; Development of protective and therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated disease; Vaccines; Virology
- Office:(203) 785-4401
Ayman El-Guindy
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease)
Research Interests:DNA replication; tumor virus; herpesvirus; oncogenic; transcription factor; replication protein; phosphorylation; protein modification; kinase
Stanley Hudnall
Professor of Pathology and of Laboratory Medicine
Director, Hematopathology Program
Research Interests:Tumor immunology; Chronic inflammation; Tumor viruses
- Office:(203) 737-1221
Akiko Iwasaki
Professor of Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
Research Interests:Innate immunity; Autophagy; Inflammasomes; sexually transmitted infections; Herpes simplex virus; human papillomavirus;respiratory virus infections; Influenza infection; T cell immunity; Commensal bacteria
- Office:(203) 785-2919
- Lab:(203) 785-7662
Benjamin Judson
Assistant Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology)
Associate Residency Program Director, Otolaryngology
- Appt:(203) 785-2593
Susan Kaech
Associate Professor of Immunobiology
HHMI Early Career Scientist
Research Interests:Mechanisms of memory T cell development; Developmental Biology; Immunobiology; Immunology; Vaccine; Immunobiology; T-Cells; Vaccines; Adaptive immunity and immunological memory to viruses
- Office:(203) 737-2423
- Lab:(203) 785-7661
Priti Kumar
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:RNA interference (RNAi)-based strategies for treating viral infections
- Office:(203) 737-3580
Brett Lindenbach
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:Cell Biology; Enveloped Viruses; Hepatitis; Hepatitis C Virus; Molecular Biology; Positive-strand RNA Viruses; RNA; Virology; Virus
- Office:(203) 785-4705
- Lab:(203) 785-2377
Robert Means
Associate Professor of Pathology
Director of Graduate Admissions, Microbiology Program
Research Interests:Viruses; Immune responses; AIDS-associated cancers; KSHV; Adverse pregnancy events; Oncogenesis; Cancer metabolism; Tumor virology; Herpesviruses
- Office:(203) 785-6160
- Lab:(203) 785-7614
I George Miller, Jr
John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Section Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Research Interests:Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV); Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV); Tumor virology
- Office:(203) 785-4758
- Appt:(203) 785-4730
Kathryn Miller-Jensen
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Walther Mothes
Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:cell biology; retroviral replication; retroviruses; immune; viral biology; genetic; biochemical; cell imaging; Viral entry and exit; Retroviruses including HIV
- Office:(203) 737-2203
Anna Marie Pyle
William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry
Director, Division of Biological Sciences
Research Interests:Structure and function of catalytic RNA; RNA helicase mechanisms; Computational analysis of RNA structure
- Office:(203) 432-5633
Michael Robek
Associate Professor of Pathology
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests:Virus-host interactions; viral immunology; hepatitis viruses; interferon
- Office:(203) 785-6174
- Lab:(203) 785-7672
John Rose
Professor of Pathology
Director, Molecular Virology Program
Research Interests:Virology; Vaccine and gene expression vectors based on rhabdoviruses; Membrane protein assembly, transport and targeting; Viral assembly
- Office:(203) 785-6184
- Lab:(203) 785-6186
Alessandro Santin
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Clinical Research Program Leader, Gynecologic Oncology Program, Yale Cancer Center
Research Interests:Mutational landscape of gynecolocic tumors; Therapeutic vaccine development for gynecologic malignancies; Tumor immunology; Immunotherapy; Tumor angiogenesis; Radiation biology; Experimental therapeutics in gynecologic oncology
- Office:(203) 737-4450
- Appt:(203) 200-4176
Christian Schlieker
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests:Protein folding; ubiquitin; Protein quality control and its relation to viral pathogenesis
- Office:(203) 432-5035
Fatma Shebl
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:HCV response to treatment; Natural history of HCV infection; Immune response; Infection-related cancer; Cancer epidemiology; Cancer immunology; Inflammation; Research methodology
Joan Steitz
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Research Interests:Autoantibodies; Gene Expression; RNA; RNA Processing; SnRNPs; Viral Transformation
- Office:(203) 737-4418
Richard Sutton
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Research Interests:HIV replication and the development of small animal models of HIV; HIV vectors; HIV replication and gene transfer into non-dividing cells
- Office:(203) 737-3648
- Lab:(203) 737-3632
Peter Tattersall
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Genetics
Research Interests:Biochemistry; Genetics; Parvoviruses; DNA replication; Gene therapy; Oncolytic virus; Vaccines; Vectors; Viral replication and vectors
- Office:(203) 785-4586
- Lab:(203) 785-6517
Anthony Van den Pol
Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Interests:Hypothalamus; neuroendocrinology; neural control of energy homeostasis; neuropeptide modulation of amino acid transmitter actions; hypocretin/orexin and MCH neurons; Neurovirology; viral vectors; oncolytic viruses
- Office:(203) 785-5823
Yong Xiong
Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests:Innate immune systems; HIV; fatty acid synthase (FAS); polyketide synthase (PKS); Viral vectors
- Office:(203) 436-2608
Wendell Yarbrough
Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology)
Section Chief, Otolaryngology
Co-Director Molecular Virology Research Program
Director, Head & Neck Cancer Program, Smilow Cancer Hospital
Research Interests:Head and neck oncology; Salivary oncology; Mouse modeling of human cancer; Human-in-mouse cancer models; Tumor suppressor activity; Molecular defects in cancer; NF-kappa B; NF-kB; Signaling; DNA damage; Human papilloma virus; HPV
- Office:(203) 785-4862
- Appt:(203) 785-2593
