Many laboratories at Penn study virology, focusing on viral replication, the host response, and viral countermeasures. For example APOBEC3G, the host-encoded restriction factor targeted by HIV Vif, was discovered in the Microbiology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Today many pathogenic viruses of humans are under study, including filoviruses, HIV, MMTV, Coronaviruses including SARS, SV40, Merkel Cell Carcinoma virus, Herpes virus, bunyaviruses including Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and Rift Valley fever, and influenza viruses. HIV researchers in the program work closely with the Penn Center for AIDS Research; researchers focusing on tumor viruses work closely with the Tumor Virology Program; researchers working on bacterial viruses work closely with the PennCHOP Microbiome Program.
Virology Researchers include:
Assistant Professor of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine
alvaj@vet.upenn.edu
James Alwine, PhD
Professor of Cancer Biology
alwine@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Stewart Anderson, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
sande@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Paul Bates, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
pbates@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Jeffrey Bergelson, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
bergelson@email.chop.edu
Michael Betts, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology
betts@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Frederic Bushman, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
bushman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Kyong-Mi Chang, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
kmchang@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Sara Cherry, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
cherrys@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Gary Cohen, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
ghc@dental.upenn.edu
Ronald Collman, MD
Professor of Medicine
collmanr@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Harvey Friedman, MD
Professor of Medicine
hfriedma@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Beatrice Hahn, MD
Professor of Medicine
bhahn@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Ronald Harty, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology
rharty@vet.upenn.edu
Associate Professor of Microbiology
hensley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
James Hoxie, MD
Professor of Medicine
hoxie@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Stuart Isaacs, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
isaacs@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, PhD
Chair, Department of Pathology
jordank@upenn.edu
Dennis Kolson, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
kolsond@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Paul Lieberman, PhD
Wistar Institute Professor of Microbiology
lieberman@wistar.org
Carolina Lopez, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathobiology
lopezca@vet.upenn.edu
Luis Montaner, DVM, DPhil
Wistar Institute Professor of Medicine
montaner@wistar.org
Una O'Doherty, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
unao@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Yvonne Paterson, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
yvonne@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Glenn Rall, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology
glenn.rall@fccc.edu
Holly Ramage, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology
hramage@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Robert Ricciardi, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
ricciardi@biochem.dental.upenn.edu
Associate Professor of Microbiology
rileyj@exchange.upenn.edu
Erle Robertson, PhD
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
erle@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Matthias Schnell, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology
Matthias.Schnell@jefferson.edu
George Shaw, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
shawg@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
David Weiner, PhD
Wistar Institute
jhubert@wistar.org
Susan Weiss, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
weisssr@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
dreww@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Matthew Weitzman, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
weitzmanm@email.chop.edu
E. John Wherry, PhD
Professor of SPATT
wherry@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
James Wilson, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
wilsonjm@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
John Wolfe, VMD, PhD
Professor of Pathobiology in Pediatrics
Jianxin You, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology
jianyou@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Yan Yuan, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
yuan2@pobox.upenn.edu