Laboratory of Immunopathology

Herbert C. Morse III, M.D., Chief

The Laboratory of Immunopathology (LIP) studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in normal development and differentiation as well as neoplastic transformation. Basic studies utilizing techniques from molecular and cell biology, immunology, and pathology are combined with observations of mice with naturally occurring or induced mutation or high-level retrovirus expression to model processes that develop in humans.

Major current emphases in the Virology and Cellular Immunology Section include studies of mouse models of leukemia and B-cell lineage lymphomas. Studies in the Molecular Pathology Section are focused on the roles of CTCF and BORIS in the (epi)genetics of normative biology and cancer.

Read more about the BORIS antigen, discovered in LIP, in the NIAID Web bulletin, NIAID-Developed Antigen Shows Promise Against Metastatic Cancer.

Current Research

Virology and Cellular Immunology Section
Molecular Pathology Section

Principal Investigators

Herbert C. Morse III, M.D., Chief
Victor V. Lobanenkov, Ph.D., Chief, Molecular Pathology Section
Janet W. Hartley, Ph.D., Emerita

Lab Manager

Chen-Feng Qi, M.D., Ph.D.

Staff Scientists

Alexander Kovalchuk, Ph.D.
Dmitri Loukinov, Ph.D.

Staff

Sadia Abbasi
Ziyedulla Abdullayev, Ph.D.
Mina Adnani
Deborrah Curtis
Natsuki Kosaka
Keandra McCoy
Zohreh Naghashfar, Ph.D.
Elena Pugacheva, Ph.D.
Alexander Strunniko, Ph.D.
James Toliver
Hongsheng Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Jianxun Feng
Ines Garcia-Gonzalez
Yong-Soo Kim
Takuya Miyazaki
Dong-Mi Shin
Jeongheon Yoon

IRTA

Maria Dolbec-Oliveras
Raushan Turdiev

Training Opportunities

Postdoctoral fellowships are available in both B-cell immunology and molecular pathology areas. Interested individuals please contact LIP for more information.

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