Faculty
Jeffrey Bender, MD
Robert I. Levy Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Immunobiology
Associate Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal Medicine
Director, Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Internal Medicine
Marcus Bosenberg, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and Immunobiology
Marcus Bosenberg M.D., Ph.D., is a physician scientist who directs a leading melanoma research laboratory, is Co-Leader of the Genomics, Genetics and Epigenetics Program of the Yale Cancer Center, Co-Director of the Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer, and is a practicing dermatopathologist at Yale Dermatopathology through Yale Medicine.
In his research, Dr. Bosenberg studies the genetics and cellular changes that result in melanoma, the leading cause of skin cancer deaths. His laboratory has developed...
Alfred 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...
Grace Chen, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Grace Chen received her undergraduate training in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. She attended Harvard University for her PhD where she worked in David Liu's laboratory to discover and characterize novel RNA modifications. Her postdoctoral research was at Stanford University in Howard Chang's group, where she investigated circular RNA immunity. Grace Chen joined Yale University as a faculty in the Department of Immunobiology in 2019. Her research focuses on the functions and...
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
Lieping Chen studies immune cell communications via cell surface protein-protein interactions. He is also interested in translating laboratory findings to treat human diseases including cancer, autoimmune diseases and infection.
In 1992, Dr. Chen showed the first proof-of-concept study that the B7-CD28 family molecules could be the targets for cancer immunotherapy. This study inspires subsequent studies targeting the B7-CD28 family molecules for the treatment of human cancer.
In 1999, Dr. Chen,...
Joseph Craft, MD
Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Professor of Immunobiology
Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Investigative Medicine
Dr. Joseph Craft is Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine 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 at that institution since 1985. At Yale,...
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
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz 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 Eisenbarth, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Immunology)
Associate Chair of Research, Laboratory Medicine
Assistant Director of Clinical Pathology Residency Program
Richard 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...
