Faculty
Jeffrey R. Bender, MD
Robert I. Levy Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Immunobiology
Associate Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Yale Cardiovascular Research Center
Alfred L. M. Bothwell, PhD
Professor of Immunobiology
Member of HTI and VBT
Al Bothwell graduated with an A.B. from Washington University in 1971, got a PhD from Yale in Sidney Altman’s lab in 1975 and then did a postdoc with David Baltimore at MIT where he established the genetic basis of the anti-NP idiotypic antibody response. He has been on the Immunobiology faculty at the Yale Medical School since 1982. He continued studies of B cell antibody diversity and memory and then worked on T cell receptor structure/function and signaling. He also developed the molecular...
Lieping Chen, MD, PhD
United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research and Professor of Immunobiology, of Dermatology and of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Co-Director, Cancer Immunology Program at Yale Cancer Center
Before joining Yale in 2010, Dr. Chen was a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and at Mayo Clinic. He was also a research scientist in Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
Lieping Chen studies lymphocyte costimulation and coinhibition and their application in treating human diseases, including cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Published in 1992, Dr. Chen pioneered the first proof-of-concept study showing that manipulation of the B7-CD28/CTLA-4 family molecules could be used for cancer...
Joseph Edgar Craft, MD
Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Professor of Immunobiology
Section Chief, Rheumatology
Program Director, Investigative Medicine
Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine
Dr. Joseph Craft is Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Rheumatology, and Professor of Immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. He received his degree in chemistry as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Craft did postgraduate training in medicine and in rheumatology and immunology at Yale, and has been on the faculty...
Peter Cresswell, PhD, FRS
Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Cell Biology
Dr. Cresswell is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Cell Biology and Dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine.
He received his B.S. degree in chemistry, his M.S. degree in microbiology from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K., and his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry and immunology from London University. His postdoctoral training was completed at Harvard University with Jack Strominger.
Before assuming his position at Yale, Dr. Cresswell was Chief of the...
Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD
Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Immunobiology
Vishwa Deep Dixit completed Bachelor and Master of Veterinary Sciences in HAU, Hisar India. He received German Academic Exchange Service fellowship to conduct PhD research in Germany. He completed PhD coursework in HAU and Research Work in University of Hannover in Year 2000. He conducted postdoctoral research training in NIH. He joined Pennington Biomedical Research Center as an Assistant Professor in 2006 and moved to Yale as Professor of Comparative Medicine and Immunobiology in 2013. ...
Stephanie C Eisenbarth, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Immunology)
Assistant Director of Clinical Pathology Residency Program
Tarek Fahmy, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Immunobiology
Richard A Flavell, PhD, FRS
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Flavell is Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his B.Sc. (Honors) in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1970 in biochemistry from the University of Hull, England, and performed postdoctoral work in Amsterdam (1970-72) with Piet Borst and in Zurich (1972-73) with Charles Weissmann. Before accepting his current position in 1988, Dr. Flavell was first Assistant Professor (equivalent) at the University...
Ann M Haberman, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunobiology
Director, In Vivo Imaging Facility
Director, Flow Cytometry Facility
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1992)