Center for Inflammation and Tolerance
Meet the Team

Meet the Experts

The center embraces an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together scientists with expertise in reproductive immunology, innate immunity and inflammation, hematopoiesis, early life development, metabolism, mucosal immunology, and antimicrobial host defense.

Co-Directors

A photo of Chandrashekhar Pasare.

Chandrashekhar Pasare, DVM, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Innate immunity; toll-like receptor signaling; dendritic cell biology; innate control of adaptive immunity; regulation of inflammation
A photo of Sing Sing Way.

Sing Sing Way, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Faculty

A photo of Theresa Alenghat.

Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Koichi Araki.

Koichi Araki, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Nurit Azouz.

Nurit Azouz, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Allergic diseases; the mechanisms by which protease–protease inhibitor imbalance promotes barrier breaches and loss of immunologic tolerance in...
A photo of Hitesh Deshmukh.

Hitesh S. Deshmukh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Senad Divanovic.

Senad Divanovic, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of John Erickson.

John Erickson, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Antibody structure and function; glycobiology; mechanisms of protective immunity; flow cytometry and T cell biology; pregnancy; fetal tolerance
A photo of Rana Herro.

Rana Herro, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Tamara Tilburgs.

Tamara Tilburgs, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Mechanisms of maternal-fetal immune tolerance and placental immunity in human pregnancy
A photo of Ty Troutman.

Ty D. Troutman, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Disease; gene regulation; immunology; innate immunity; macrophages; myeloid cells
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