Bali Pulendran

Violetta L. Horton Professor, Director, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Academic Appointments

Professor, Pathology
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Member, Bio-X
Faculty Fellow, Sarafan ChEM-H

Administrative Appointments

Director, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection (2024 - Present)

2024-25 Courses

Independent Studies
- Graduate Research
  IMMUNOL 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)

Stanford Advisees

Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Evan Maestri, Azam Mohsin
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Gurpreet Bharj, Haleigh Eppler, Mengyun Hu, Lucie Rodriguez, Kim Tran, Xia Xie, Haibo Zhang
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Filipe Araujo Hoffmann, Nathaniel Bloom
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
Yizhao Gao

Graduate and Fellowship Programs

All Publications

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Sean Bendall

Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests
Our goal is to understand the mechanisms regulating the development of human systems. Drawing on both pluripotent stem cell biology, hematopoiesis, and immunology, combined with novel high-content single-cell analysis (CyTOF – Mass Cytometry) and imagining (MIBI-Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging) we are creating templates of ‘normal’ human cellular behavior to both discover novel regulatory events and cell populations as well as understand dysfunctional processes such as cancer.

167 Total Publications
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Catherine Blish

George E. and Lucy Becker Professor in Medicine
Clinical Focus
Infectious Disease
Research Interests
The major goal of our research is to gain insight into the prevention and control of HIV and other viral pathogens by studying the interplay between the virus and the host immune response. We investigate the role of various arms of the immune response, but with a particular focus on NK cells. We hope to gain additional insights into control of infectious diseases by studying how pregnancy modulates immune responses.

168 Total Publications
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Alma-Martina Cepika

Instructor, Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation

47 Total Publications
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Yueh-hsiu Chien

Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests
Contribution of T cells to immunocompetence and autoimmunity; how the immune system clears infection, avoids autoimmunity and how infection impacts on the development of immune responses.

108 Total Publications
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R. Sharon Chinthrajah

Associate Professor of Medicine (Sean Parker Center) and of Pediatrics (Allergy and Clinical Immunology)
Clinical Focus
Food Allergy, Asthma, Allergy and Immunology

191 Total Publications
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Cornelia L. Dekker, M.D.

Professor (Research) of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Emerita
Research Interests
The Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program provides an infrastructure for conducting clinical studies of vaccines in children and adults. We conduct immunology studies of seasonal influenza vaccines in twins, in a longitudinal cohort of young and elderly adults and studies of various vaccine candidates for NIH and industry. Additionally, we were a CDC Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment site for 10 years working on safety issues concerning licensed vaccines.

139 Total Publications
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Edgar Engleman

Professor of Pathology and of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology)
Research Interests
Dendritic cells, macrophages, NK cells and T cells; functional proteins and genes; immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer, autoimmune disease, neurodegenerative disease and metabolic disease.

290 Total Publications
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C. Garrison Fathman

Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology), Emeritus
Research Interests
My lab of molecular and cellular immunology is interested in research in the general field of T cell activation and autoimmunity. We have identified and characterized a gene (GRAIL) that seems to control regulatory T cell (Treg) responsiveness by inhibiting the Treg IL-2 receptor desensitization. We have characterized a gene (Deaf1) that plays a major role in peripheral tolerance in T1D. Using PBC gene expression, we have provisionally identified a signature of risk and progression in T1D.

326 Total Publications
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Jorg Goronzy

Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology), Emeritus

487 Total Publications
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Mengyun Hu

Postdoctoral Scholar, Immunity Transplant Infection

15 Total Publications
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David B. Lewis

Naddisy Foundation Professor of Pediatric Food Allergy, Immunology, and Asthma
Clinical Focus
Primary Immunodeficiency, Pediatrics
Research Interests
My laboratory is focused on defining cellular and molecular mechanisms that limit T cell responses to vaccines and pathogens during normal early postnatal development and in cases of inherited genetic immunodeficiencies. We are also determinomg how these limitations in immunity can be overcome by using novel approaches for vaccine adjuvants for influenza vaccine and by using catalytically inactive Cas proteins for inducing endogenous gene expression.

179 Total Publications
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Crystal Mackall

Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor and Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Research Interests
Recent clinical studies, by us and others, have demonstrated that genetically engineered T cells can eradicate cancers resistant to all other therapies. We are identifying new targets for these therapeutics, exploring pathways of resistance to current cell therapies and creating next generation platforms to overcome therapeutic resistance. We have discovered novel insights into the biology of human T cell exhaustion and developed approaches to prevent and reverse this phenomenon.

395 Total Publications