Research Interests: the role of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer progression; the role of platelets in generating adaptive immune responses; Director of the Biological Evaluation Shared Resource in the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
Harm HogenEsch, DVM, PhD, Professor of Immunopathology; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists
Research Interests: mucosal immunology and mucosal vaccines; adjuvants; dendritic cells; immunobiology of the skin
Research Interest: immune responses to infection in the vascular compartment and at the fetal-maternal interface
Tsang Long Lin, DVM, PhD, Professor of Veterinary Pathology; Head of Avian and Aquatic Section, Senior Veterinary Diagnostic Pathologist, Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory
Research Interests: diagnostic pathology; molecular pathology and immunohistopathology of infectious, toxic and neoplastic diseases; and avian, swine, and fish, laboratory animal pathology
Suresh K. Mittal, DVM, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Virology in the Department of Comparative Pathobiology, University Faculty Scholar, Member of Purdue Cancer Center, Member of Bindley Bioscience Center
Research Interests: viral expression vectors; recombinant vaccines; gene therapy; adenovirus; gene expression; role of adenovirus early region 1 and early region 3 in pathogenesis; mucosal immunity; innate immunity; pandemic influenza including bird flu
Sanjeev Narayanan, BVSc, PhD, DACVP, DACVM, Department Head of Comparative Pathobiology, Professor of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology
Research Interests: anaerobic bacteriology; vaccinology; antimicrobial resistance.
Deepti Pillai, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Microbiology
Research Interest: antimicrobial resistance and identifying critical bacterial targets as vaccine candidates
Timothy Ratliff, PhD, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Comparative Pathobiology; The Robert Wallace Miller Director Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
Research Interests: immunotherapy of prostate cancer; immunotherapy of bladder cancer; communication between innate and adaptive immune compartments via platelets; prostate inflammation; bladder inflammation
Rebecca Wilkes, DVM, PhD, DACVM (virology and bacteriology/mycology) Assistant Professor, Molecular Diagnostics, Section Head for Molecular, Virology, and Serology Sections
Research Interests:infectious diseases of animals and development of new molecular assays for detection of infectious organisms
Research Interests:inflammation in prostate diseases; cholesterol metabolism in prostate cancer
GuangJun Zhang, PhD, John T. and Winifred Hayward Associate Professor of Genetic Research, Genetic Epidemiology and Comparative Medicine
Research Interests:cancer genetics and genomics, ion channel functions in embryonic development, bioelectricity in embryogenesis and cancers, zebrafish genetic models of human diseases, evolutionary developmental biology
