CCHI Members 2024 – 2029

Emory University

Program Title: Vaccine Induced Immunity in the Young and Aged

PD/PI: Rafi Ahmed, PhD, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Director, Emory Vaccine Center; Eminent Scholar in Vaccine Research, Georgia Research Alliance; member, National Academy of Science; Co-Leader, Cancer Immunology Research Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

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The Jackson Laboratory

Program Title: Modulation of Lung Immunes Responses to Viral Infection

PD/PI: A. Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD, Edison T. Liu Endowed Chair in Cancer Research; Professor; Director, JAX Cancer Center (NCI-Designated)

PD/PI: Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute

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La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology

Program Title: Human immune memory to COVID-19, vaccines, and respiratory pathogens

PD/PI: Shane P. Crotty, PhD, Professor and Chief Scientific Officer

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Massachusetts General Hospital

Program Title: Durable Alteration of the Human Immune system after Infection or Immunotherapy

PD/PI: Raymond T. Chung, MD, Professor, Harvard Medical School; Zhou Family Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology; Kevin and Polly Maroni MGH Research Scholar; Director, Hepatology and Liver Center; Vice Chief, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital

PD/PI: Georg M. Lauer, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Research Institute and Harvard Medical School

PD/PI: E. John Wherry, III, PhD, Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor; Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics; Director, Institute for Immunology and Immune Health; Director, Colton Center for Autoimmunity Consortium; Co-Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy; Co-Program Leader, Immunobiology, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania

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Northwestern University at Chicago

Program Title: The Neu-Lung Consortium: Neutrophilic Mechanisms of Inflammation, Injury, and Repair in Lung and Airways Diseases

PD/PI: Stephanie C. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, Roy and Elaine Patterson Professor of Medicine; Professor, Medicine (Allergy and Immunology), Pathology; Director, Center for Human Immunobiology; Chief of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine

PD/PI: Alexander V. Misharin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)

PD/PI:  Benjamin D. Singer, MD, Lawrence Hicks Professor of Pulmonary Medicine; Associate Professor, Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

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Stanford University

Program Title: Understanding Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine responses, in vivo and in vitro

PD/PI: Mark M. Davis, PhD, Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor of Immunology; Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection

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University of Alabama at Birmingham

Program Title: Evolution and Durability of Human T and B Cell Responses

PD/PI: Frances E. Lund, PhD, Professor, Microbiology; Endowed Chair in Immunology and Director, HSOM Immunology Institute 

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University of Maryland, Baltimore

Program Title: Mechanisms of Mucosal and Systemic Immunity to Vaccination and Infection with Enteric Pathogens in Children and Adults

PD/PI: Marcelo B. Sztein, M.D.  Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director for Basic and Translational Research; Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), Leader, CVD Immunology Group, Chief, Cellular Immunology Section and Director, University of Maryland Flow Cytometry and Mass Cytometry Core.

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Washington University

Program Title: Mechanisms of Immune Protection Against Respiratory Viruses

PD/PI: Ali Ellebedy, PhD, Leo Loeb Endowed Professor; Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University

PD/PI: Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, The Herbert S. Gasser Professor; Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University

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