Key Faculty & Specific Research Interests
![Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Megan-Tierney-Baldridge-280x386-1-280x386.jpg)
Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-273-1212
- Email: [email protected]
Dr. Baldridge studies the complicated interplay among three important factors: commensal microbes, the host immune system, and viral and bacterial pathogens.
![Jacco Boon, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/BoonJ_300-280x386.jpg)
Jacco Boon, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology
- Phone: 314-286-0857
- Fax: 314-286-2784
- Email: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CaseBrett_hs-280x386.jpg)
Brett Case, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Email: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Chong-Zhenlu_HS-280x386.jpg)
Zhenlu Chong, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Desai_Pritesh-2023_HS-280x386.jpg)
Pritesh Desai, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: [email protected]
Dr. Desai concentration is immunology and microbiology, and virology.
![Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Diamond_Photo-MSD-labct-2021_headshoRt-280x386.jpg)
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: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/kisaka-280x386.jpg)
Javan Kisaka, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-8838
- Email: [email protected]
Dr. Kisaka specializes in cell, structural and molecular microbiology and currently works in the Kyei Lab.
![George B. Kyei, MBChB, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Kyei_Photo-280x386.jpg)
George B. Kyei, MBChB, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LeungD_300-280x386.jpg)
Daisy W. Leung, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Immunology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Phone: 314-286-0645
- Email: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ma_Hongming-e1690324570759.jpg)
Hongming Ma PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Marilia-Pinzone-280x386-1-280x386.jpg)
Marilia R. Pinzone, MD
Instructor of Medicine
- Email: [email protected]
Dr. Pinzone’s interests are HIV, TB and viral infections in immunocompromised hosts.
![Rachel M. Presti, MD, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rachel-Presti-280x386-1.jpeg)
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: [email protected]
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Rauseo-Adriana_ID_300-280x386.jpg)
Adriana M. Rauseo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8254
- Email: [email protected]
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.
![Liang Shan, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ShanL_290x400-280x386.jpg)
Liang Shan, PhD
Associate Professor in Medicine and of Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-747-0050
- Email: [email protected]
The Shan lab uses in vitro, ex vivo, and humanized mouse models to study basic immunobiology of HIV infection and develops immunotherapeutic strategies towards an HIV cure; HIV-1 infection and host immune responses