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- Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
- Dr. V. Watson Pugh & Frances Plimpton Pugh Professor in Microbiology & Immunology
233 South Tenth Street
BLSB-531
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Our Team
Christoph Wirblich, PhD
Senior Research Investigator
Drishya Kurup, MS, PhD
Research Instructor
Research: Developing Measles, Rabies, and VSV-based vaccines against emergent infectious diseases
Nir Paran, PhD
Visiting Scientist
Shantel Rios
PhD Candidate
Jacob Myers
MD, PhD Candidate
Sabrine Ben-Hamed, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anisha Chandwani
Research Technician I
Alessandro Tarquinio
Research Technician I
Maja Sundberg, MS
Project Manager
Uthra Balakumar
PhD Candidate
Jesse Miller
PhD Candidate
Past Team Members
Jennifer Campbell
Current position -
Annamarie Testa
Current position -
Thomas Shiels, PhD
Current position - Senior Research Scientist at Incyte
Lediona Mehmeti, PhD
Current position - Associate Scientist, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Rachael Lambert, MS
Current position - Cellular and Molecular Immunologist, Cabaletta Bio
Catherine Yankowski, PhD
Current position -
Gabrielle Scher, PhD
Current position - Postdoctoral Researcher | Virologist | Vaccinologist the Univeristy of Pennsylvania
Christine Fisher, PhD
Current position - Senior Member of Technical Staff at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massuchusettes
Elizabeth Faul Goldstein, PhD
Current position - Adjunct Faculty at University of San Francisco
Emily Gomme, PhD
Current position - Principal Scientist, Vaccine Development at Pfizer
Adrienne Goodrich, PhD
Current position - LCDR, U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps; U.S Department of Health and Human Services
Tessa Lawrence, PhD
Current position - Sexual Health and HIV Research Manager at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Heather Foley Malicki, PhD
Current position - Senior Scientific Director, Technology Development at WuXi AppTec
James McGettigan, PhD
Current position - Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University
Philip McKenna, PhD
Current position - Principal Scientist, Antiviral Discovery at Merck
Mirjam Preuss, PhD
Current position - Instructor, University of Marburg, Germany
Mary Ellen Smith, PhD
Current position - Senior Research Biochemist at Merck
Gene Tan, PhD
Current position - Assistant Professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute
Celestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD
Current position - Research Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Mallory Willet Becker, MS
Current position - Assay Development Scientist at Spark Therapeutics