Allergy and Immunology

Faculty Labs

The Assa’ad Lab actively engages in research that aims to improve our understanding of the natural development of food allergies and to investigate novel treatments to achieve optimal health outcomes.

The Azouz Lab investigates the function and regulation of proteases in host defense and in the onset and propagation of inflammatory and allergic diseases.

The Barski Lab studies epigenomics in the immune system, with a main focus on how epigenetic regulation shapes T cell differentiation, activation and memory.

The Devonshire Lab is investigating food allergy prevention and interventions in the pediatric population, with particular interests in early life strategies for food allergy prevention, improving the diagnostic and prognostic approach to patients with food allergy, the use of shared decision making in food allergy management, and the design and conduct of clinical trials.

Our lab is focused on identifying the molecular mechanisms that underlie specific genetic associations with human disease.

The Risma Lab focuses on advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and mechanistic understanding of adverse drug reactions through clinical and translational research, encompassing both predictable immune-mediated (classical) allergies and unpredictable idiosyncratic reactions to a wide range of medications including antibiotics, biologics, chemotherapy, and vaccines.

The Rothenberg CURED Research Laboratory focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of allergic inflammation, particularly in mucosal tissues like the gastrointestinal tract and lung, with the goal of developing novel diagnostics and therapies to treat and cure eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (such as eosinophilic esophagitis), hypereosinophilic syndrome, asthma, food allergies, and related allergic diseases.

The Shoda Lab focuses on uncovering the genes and regulatory mechanisms behind eosinophilic diseases, especially EGID, to improve diagnosis, treatment, and more precise, personalized care for patients with severe allergies.

The Troutman Lab studies how tissue-resident myeloid cells, especially macrophages, use epigenetic and molecular mechanisms to regulate health and disease, with a focus on their roles in inflammation, obesity, cancer immunity and neurodegeneration.

The Ward Lab studies food allergy, asthma, eczema, and other atopic conditions to improve treatment and prevention, while also developing and evaluating allergy-focused medical education and simulation training.

Our lab uses computational approaches to uncover how genes are turned on and off, revealing the regulatory mechanisms that drive human traits and disease.

The Winslow Lab studies health disparities and outcomes in pediatric allergy, with a current focus on improving penicillin allergy delabeling and understanding inequities in food allergy oral immunotherapy participation.

The Zimmermann Research Lab features a specialty in pathology and allergy / immunology with three main areas of research: eosinophilic diseases, mast cell–mediated disease, and cancer immunology.