Faculty Profiles | Loyola University Chicago

Susan Uprichard, PhD

InDIRI co-Director
Professor
Medicine, Hepatology
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Development of experimental model systems to elucidate critical viral-host interactions, the molecular mechanisms of viral spread, and optimize antiviral treatment response

Nina Clark, MD

InDIRI co-Director
Professor
Medicine, Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Novel antimicrobials. Infections in solid and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients.

Bryan Mounce, Ph.D.

InDIRI Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Virus-host interactions at the metabolic interface
Mounce Lab

Prabhodh Abbineni, PhD

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests: Molecular regulation of the secretory pathway to understand how this pathway modulates intercellular communication innate immunity, and inflammation.

Fritzie Albarillo, MD

Jonathan Allen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

Molecular mechanisms by which the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is able to cause severe and invasive infections.

Susan C. Baker, PhD

Professor

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

Study how viruses replicate and cause disease,. Identifying and characterizing viral proteins that modulate host response to infection.

Pauline Camacho, MD

Endocrinology & Metabolism

Edward Campbell, PhD

Professor and Chair

Microbiology & Immunology

Research Interests:

Cellular factors promoting or inhibiting HIV-1 infection; prion-like spread of amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases; the role of inflammation in disease pathogenesis.