Key Faculty & Specific Research Interests
Ishmael D. Aziati, PhD
Instructor of Medicine
- Email: idaziati@wustl.edu
Dr Aziati specializes in the use of integrated approaches to control and prevent emerging vector-borne and zoonotic viral diseases, with a special focus on pathogen surveillance and developing therapeutic interventions.
Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-273-1212
- Email: mbaldridge@wustl.edu
Dr. Baldridge studies the complicated interplay among three important factors: commensal microbes, the host immune system, and viral and bacterial pathogens.
Jacco Boon, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology
- Phone: 314-286-0857
- Fax: 314-286-2784
- Email: jboon@wustl.edu
Dr. Boon He specializes in basic research on RNA viruses, with a special focus on emerging virus such as influenza virus, Bourbon virus and SARS-CoV-2.
Brett Case, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Email: casejb@wustl.edu
Dr. Case’s primary research interests include vaccine design, generation of broadly cross-reactive immune responses, mucosal immunity, viral immunology, and emerging pathogens.
Zhenlu Chong, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: zchong@wustl.edu
Dr. Chong specializes in innate immunology and infectious diseases, with a special focus on how innate immunity responds to flavivirus infection. He is also very interested in identifying host factors of flaviviruses including West Nile virus, Dengue virus, Zika virus, etc. by using CRISPR screening.
Pritesh Desai, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: desai@wustl.edu
Dr. Desai concentration is immunology and microbiology, and virology.
Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD
The Herbert S. Gasser Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-2842
- Fax: 314-362-9230
- Email: diamond@wusm.wustl.edu
Michael Diamond, MD, PhD is the leader of a basic and translational research laboratory studying the interface between viral pathogenesis and host immunity. His laboratory focuses on emerging RNA viruses including flaviviruses, alphaviruses, and coronaviruses.
Javan Kisaka, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-8838
- Email: javan@wustl.edu
Dr. Kisaka specializes in cell, structural and molecular microbiology and currently works in the Kyei Lab.
George B. Kyei, MBChB, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: gkyei@wustl.edu
Dr. Kyei specializes in HIV basic and translational research, with a special focus on viral latency and reactivation specifically: (i) characterization of factors that control HIV replication in macrophages, dendritic and resting T cells and (ii) identification of cellular factors and small molecules required for HIV reactivation in latently infected cell and (iii) perspectives of HIV patients on HIV cure.
Daisy W. Leung, PhD
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Immunology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Phone: 314-286-0645
- Email: dwleung@wustl.edu
The Leung Lab is focused on developing a mechanistic understanding of host-pathogen interactions that contribute to viral pathogenesis through immune evasion.
Hongming Ma PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: hongmingma@wustl.edu
Dr. Ma is skilled in Cell Biology, Science, Molecular Biology, Research, and Teaching. Strong education professional with a Ph. D. focused in Immunology of aquatic animals from Ocean University of China.
Marilia R. Pinzone, MD
Instructor of Medicine
- Email: marilia@wustl.edu
Dr. Pinzone’s interests are HIV, TB and viral infections in immunocompromised hosts.
Rachel M. Presti, MD, PhD
Professor, Infectious Diseases | Medical Director of the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit (IDCRU)
- Phone: 314-454-8215
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: prestir@wustl.edu
Dr. Presti specializes in clinical and translational research in infectious disease, with a special focus on HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections.
Adriana M. Rauseo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8254
- Email: a.rauseoacevedo@wustl.edu
Dr. Rauseo specializes in clinical infectious diseases, with a special focus on mycology and infectious that affect immunocompromised hosts. Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic she has served as an investigator in the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit (ID-CRU) in multiple clinical trials and translational research in the fight against COVID-19.