# Faculty

**Source**: https://biology.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty/?research-area%5B%5D=immunology
**Parent**: https://biology.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/areas-of-research/immunology/

Research AreasBiochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural BiologyCancer BiologyCell BiologyComputational BiologyGeneticsHuman DiseaseImmunologyMicrobiologyNeurobiologyStem Cell and Developmental BiologyLocationsBroad InstituteBuilding 68 - Koch Biology BuildingKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchNeuroscience ComplexRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and HarvardWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

### [Tania A. Baker](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/tania-a-baker/)

Tania Baker’s current research explores mechanisms and regulation of enzyme-catalyzed protein unfolding, ATP-dependent protein degradation, and remodeling of the proteome during cellular stress responses.

### [Facundo Batista](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/facundo-batista/)

Facundo Batista studies fundamental lymphocyte biology to drive the development of the next generation of vaccines and therapeutics.

### [Jianzhu Chen](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/jianzhu-chen/)

Jianzhu Chen studies the immune system, harnessing the body’s defense force to explore treatment and prevention for cancer, as well as metabolic and infectious diseases.

### [Yiyin Erin Chen](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/y-erin-chen/)

Erin Chen studies how the microbes in our bodies educate our immune systems, in order to engineer microbial therapeutics for human disease.

### [Tyler Jacks](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/tyler-jacks/)

Tyler Jacks is interested in the genetic events contributing to the development of cancer, and his group has created a series of mouse strains engineered to carry mutations in genes known to be involved in human cancers.

### [Hernandez Moura Silva](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/hernandez-moura-silva/)

Hernandez Moura Silva seeks to understand how the immune system supports tissue physiology to unveil new approaches to treat human diseases.

### [Alison E. Ringel](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/alison-e-ringel/)

Alison E. Ringel seeks to understand the molecular adaptations that enable immune cells to function and survive within unfavorable environments.

### [Stefani Spranger](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/stefani-spranger/)

Stefani Spranger studies how the body’s immune system interacts with growing tumors to harness the immune response to fight cancer.

### [Zuri Sullivan](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/zuri-sullivan/)

Zuri Sullivan studies how interactions between the immune system and the brain affect physiology and behavior to promote host defense.

### [Ron Vale](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/ron-vale/)

Ron Vale is interested in how proteins generate biological movement and intracellular signaling and how these molecular machines adapt when challenged by temperature extremes, drought, or disease.

### [Harikesh S. Wong](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/harikesh-s-wong/)

Harikesh S. Wong studies how cells assemble and communicate to control immune responses in tissues.