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Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

The Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) was formed in 1997 when the Departments of Cancer Biology (CB), Molecular and Cellular Toxicology (MCT), and Tropical Public Health (TPH) merged and formed two new departments, IID and the Department of Cancer Cell Biology (CCB). The merger was designed to streamline areas in which research methods had become similar. At the time of the merger, Max Essex, said "twenty years ago the approaches used in the study of parasitic diseases, as in the Department of Tropical Public Health, were very different from the approaches used in virology. Over time, the methods and strategies have become very much the same. We're all trying to understand how and why viruses or bacteria or parasitic organisms or other infectious agents cause disease and epidemics, why epidemics spread the way they do, and what we can do to check that spread."

Research in our 15 labs is focused on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, parasitology and immunology.
IID comprises 26 faculty members, over 100 research and lab staff, and about 30 administrative staff.

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Location

IID is spread over three buildings of HSPH on nine different floors. We occupy:

  • Building 1, 1st Floor
  • Building 1, 7th Floor
  • Building 1, 8th Floor
  • Building 1, 9th Floor
  • FXB Building, 2nd Floor
  • FXB Building, 3rd Floor
  • FXB Building, 4th Floor
  • FXB Building, 6th Floor
  • Building 2, 4th Floor

 

Faculty

Sarah Fortune

Office:       SPH1, RM 807

Phone:      (617) 432-6965

Email:       sfortune@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Research Staff

Alejandra Jaeger

Office:      SPH1, RM 802

Phone:     (617) 432-2683

Email:      ajaeger@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Rupal Shah

Office:     SPH1, RM 802

Phone:    (617) 432-2683

Email:      rshah@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Research Associate

Krishnamohan Atmakuri

Office:    SPH1, RM 802

Phone:    (617) 432-2683

Email:     katamkur@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Michael Chase

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:    (617) 432-7506

Email:     mrchase@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

Bree Aldridge

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      aldridge@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Tracy Rosebrock

Office:     SPH1, RM 804

Phone:     (617) 432-1345

Email:      trosebro@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Scarlet  Shell

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      sshell@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Graduate Students

Chris Ford

Office:     SPH1, RM 804

Phone:     (617) 432-1345

Email:      cbford@fas.harvard.edu

 

Angie Isaza

Office:     SPH 1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      

 

Talia Ramsdell

Office:      SPH1, RM 802

Phone:     (617) 432-2683

Email:      tramsdel@fas.harvard.edu

 

Visiting Scientist

Marta Fernandez Suarez

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      mfernandez-suarez@partners.org

 

Visiting Student 

Lia Rotherham

Office:     SPH1, RM 802

Phone:     (617) 432-2683

Email:      lrotherh@hsph.harvard.edu

 

 

Faculty

Eric Rubin

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3335

Email:      erubin@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow

Alissa Myrick

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      amyrick@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mihee Michelle Kim

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      MMKIM@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Jun-Rung Wei

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      jrwei@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Visiting Scientists

Simon Dillon

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      sdillon@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Babak Javid

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:       bjavid@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Bavesh Kana

Office:     TBD

Phone:     TBD

Email:      TBD

 

Iris Keren

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      iriskeren@yahoo.com


Mihee Kim

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:      (617) 432-3337

Email:       mmkim@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Vidhya Krishnamoorthy

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      vkrishna@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Flavia Sorrentino

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      fsorrent@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Wan-Jr Syu

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      wsyu@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Research Staff

Emmy Balon Dove

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-5414

Email:      ebalon@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Shoko Minami

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      sminami@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Jessica Pinkham

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      TBA

 

Graduate Students

Michael Chao

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      mchao@fas.harvard.edu

 

Peter Freese

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      pfreese@fas.harvard.edu

 

Edward Kazyanzkaya

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      edward.kazyanskaya@student.hms.harvard.edu   

 

Anisha Kumar

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      arkumar@fas.harvard.edu

 

Amanda Martinot

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:       amartino@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Erica Porter

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

 

Ravikiran Raju

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      rraju@hsph.harvard.edu

 

Francis Scott

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

 

Josie Valcin    

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337   

 

Jason Zhang

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337  

Email:      jason_zhang@hms.harvard.edu

 

Visiting Student

Nqobile Ngubane

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      nngubane@hsph.harvard.edu