Northwestern University Allergy Immunology Research Program (NUAIR)

Faculty Mentors

Mentor	Primary/Secondary Appointment	Role	Research Interest
Robert Schleimer, PhD Professor	Medicine - Allergy-Immunology	Director	Mechanisms of pathogenesis in allergic disease, role of cytokines and chemokines, mechanism of action of glucocorticoids, role of innate and adaptive immune responses in airways, translational investigations in humans to molecular biological assessment.
Pedro C Avila, MD Associate Professor	Medicine - Allergy-Immunology	Associate Director, Mentor	Allergic rhinitis, asthma, primary immunodeficiencies
David W Baker, MD, MPH Professor	Medicine - General Internal Medicine / Institute for Healthcare Studies	Mentor	Access to health care, racial and ethnic disparities in care, health communication (including health literacy and language as barriers to care), and improving quality of care for chronic diseases
Terrence Barrett, MD Professor	Medicine - Gastroenterology / Microbiology & Immunology / Surgery	Mentor	Mechanisms of stem cell activation in colitis-induced cancer
Melissa Brown, PhD Professor	Microbiology & Immunology	Mentor	Mast cell and T cell IL-4 gene regulation, mast cell biology, role of mast cells in adaptive immune responses using both autoimmune and infection models in mice
Paul Bryce, PhD Assistant Professor	Medicine - Allergy-Immunology / Microbiology & Immunology	Mentor	Roles for histamine in immune sensitization and allergy
GR Scott Budinger, MD Associate Professor	Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Mentor	Inhaled particulates, acute respiratory failure, hyperoxic lung injury, lung cell apoptosis
Navdeep Chandel, PhD Associate Professor	Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Mentor	Apoptosis, oxygen sensing, mitochondria, oxidant stress
Rex Chisolm, PhD Professor	Cell and Molecular Biology	Mentor	Cell motility and migration, genetics of complex disease, bioinformatics
Joan Cook-Mills, PhD Associate Professor	Medicine - Allergy-Immunology	Associate Director, Mentor	Endothelial cell function during allergic diseases
Curt Horvath, PhD Professor	Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology / Microbiology & Immunology	Mentor	Signal transduction and gene expression in mammalian cells
Douglas Kuperman, PhD Assistant Professor	Medicine - Allergy-Immunology	Mentor	Pathologic mechanisms of asthma
Robert Lavker, PhD Professor	Dermatology	Mentor	Investigations of processes of proliferation and differentiation in keratinizing tissues
Stephen Miller, PhD Professor	Microbiology & Immunology/Dermatology	Internal Advisory Board, Mentor	Immunoregulation of T cell-mediated CNS autoimmune and virus diseases
William Muller, MD, PhD Professor	Pathology	Mentor	Leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions in inflammation
Gokhan Mutlu, MD Associate Professor	Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine	Mentor	Understanding the mechanisms by which particulate matter air pollution causes cardiovascular morbidity and mortality including arterial and venous thrombosis ischemic cardiovascular events as well as obstructive sleep apnea
Jacqueline Pongracic, MD Associate Professor	Pediatrics / Medicine	Internal Advisory Board, Mentor	Food allergy, asthma, inner-city asthma
Jacob I Sznajder, MD Professor	Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine / Cell and Molecular Biology	Internal Advisory Board, Mentor	Acute respiratory failure, alveolar epithelial cell biology, effect of hypoxia and hypercapnia on the sodium potassium ATPase function and alveolar fluid clearance
Xiaobin Wang, MD, MPH, ScD Professor	Pediatrics	Mentor	Molecular epidemiology and GxE interactions in complex diseases with childhood origins