Immunoregulation Section
of the Kidney Diseases Branch
Understanding perturbed immunoregulation in diseases of autoimmunity and manipulating the balance between inflammatory and regulatory immune responses.
Select Publications
- C5a-licensed phagocytes drive sterilizing immunity during systemic fungal infection.
- Desai JV, Kumar D, Freiwald T, Chauss D, Johnson MD, Abers MS, Steinbrink JM, Perfect JR, Alexander B, Matzaraki V, Snarr BD, Zarakas MA, Oikonomou V, Silva LM, Shivarathri R, Beltran E, Demontel LN, Wang L, Lim JK, Launder D, Conti HR, Swamydas M, McClain MT, Moutsopoulos NM, Kazemian M, Netea MG, Kumar V, Köhl J, Kemper C, Afzali B, Lionakis MS.
- Cell (2023 Jun 22) 186:2802-2822.e22. Abstract/Full Text
- Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of T(H)1 cells.
- Chauss D, Freiwald T, McGregor R, Yan B, Wang L, Nova-Lamperti E, Kumar D, Zhang Z, Teague H, West EE, Vannella KM, Ramos-Benitez MJ, Bibby J, Kelly A, Malik A, Freeman AF, Schwartz DM, Portilla D, Chertow DS, John S, Lavender P, Kemper C, Lombardi G, Mehta NN, Cooper N, Lionakis MS, Laurence A, Kazemian M, Afzali B.
- Nat Immunol (2022 Jan) 23:62-74. Abstract/Full Text
Lab Members
Members of the Immunoregulation Section 2024
From left to right, Dhaneshwar Kumar, Christina Taylor, Jianping Ma, Daniel Chauss, Ben Afzali, Isabelle Yang, Md Tajmul (with Anaya Taj), Pranavi Thoom, Didier Portilla, and Luis Trujillo-Ochoa
Photo credit: Jessica Castro Lara
Last Reviewed October 2024