Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Infections in solid organ and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients

Department: Hepatology

Fritzie Albarillo, MD

Fritzie Albarillo, MD
Assistant Professor

Infectious Disease
Co-Medical Director, Antibiotic Restriction, Medical Director, OPAT Program
P:  708-216-6398
Fahey Building, Room 115

Research: Opportunistic neurologic infections in patients with Aquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Research Interest: The focus of my research is to study how viruses replicate and cause disease. We are interested in identifying and characterizing viral proteins that modulate the host response to infection.  We have identified several viral proteins that antagonize the innate immune response, particularly the interferon response, which is critical for controlling disease.

Department: Endocrinology & Metabolism

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Molecular biology of HIV-1 and other retroviruses; TRIM alpha and other viral restriction factors.

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Adenovirus interactions with the host innate immune response. Anthrax immunopathogenesis and drug discovery for biowarfare agents.

Department: Medicine
Research Interests: Advanced and rare lung diseases and lung transplantation, immune responses to melanocyte-associated antigens involved in lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM).

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine
Public Health Sciences

Research:  Influence of drug class and healthcare setting on systemic antifungal expenditures in the United States.

P: 708-216-8929
E: Margaret.Fitzpatrick@lumc.edu

Department: Microbiology/Immunology
Research Interests: Molecular Mechanisms of Virus Assembly and Entry.

Dale Gerding, M.D.

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Molecular analysis of clinical isolates of C. difficile and pathogenesis of C. difficile in a hamster model of infection.

Gopal Gupta, MD, FACS

Department: Infectious Disease

Department: Public Health Sciences
Research Interests: Vector-borne diseases and water quality

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: DNA transfer, antibiotic resistance, and virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria.

Gail Hecht, MD

Department: Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Immunological tolerance and memory; their mechanisms and clinical applications.

Department: School of Nursing
Research Interests: Research Interests: Psychneuroimmunology of stress in cancer

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: C. difficile toxins and pathogenesis, epidemiology and clinical outcomes.

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: B-lymphocyte development and generation of the antibody repertoire.

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Biofilm-mediated interactions between intestinal commensals and gut-associated lymphoid tissues.

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Immune reconstitution and role of thymic epithelium in immune tolerance following SCT and aging.

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Immune dysregulation and homeostasis.

Assistant Professor

Department: Microbiology & Immunology

Major Research Interests:The competition between host and virus for polyamines, small positively-charged molecules. The roles of polyamines in the replication of diverse RNA viruses and how polyamines contribute to host signaling pathways that impact viral infection.

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Evaluation of the penetration and efficacy of antibiotics in experimental intraperitoneal abscesses and clinical abscesses.

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: C. difficile asymptomatic carriage of patients in VA long-term care facilities

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Relationships between antibiotic usage and resistance, and development of strategies to interrupt nosocomial infections and antibiotic resistance spread in hospital settings.

Department: Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Viral and fungal infections in transplant recipients,

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Role of regulatory T cells in GVHD and tolerance.

Department: Hematology / Oncology
Research Interests: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, non-myeloablative transplantation

Department: Hematology/ Oncology
Research Interests: Opportunistic infections following umbilical cord blood transplantation.

Andrew Ulijasz, PhD

Andrew Ulijasz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Major Research Interests: We are interested in the molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, focusing on the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae, and are also developing novel tools for molecular near-infra red (NIR) imaging of disease.

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Mechanisms of bacterial colonization of symbiotic host tissue.

Department: Microbiology/ Immunology
Research Interests: Signal transduction and gene expression.

Yee Ling Wu, PhD

Yee Ling Wu, PhD

Assistant Professor

P:  708-216-6748
F:  708-216-9574

E:  ywu24@luc.edu

Department: Public Health Sciences
Research Interests: The microbiome in health and disease, bioinformatics and understanding the transcriptome of immune cells