Center for Inflammation and Tolerance
Meet the Team

Meet the Experts

The center embraces an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together scientists with expertise in reproductive immunology, innate immunity and inflammation, hematopoiesis, early life development, metabolism, mucosal immunology, and antimicrobial host defense.

Co-Directors

Research Interests
Innate immunity; toll-like receptor signaling; dendritic cell biology; innate control of adaptive immunity; regulation of inflammation

Faculty

Koichi Araki, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Nurit Azouz, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Allergic diseases; the mechanisms by which protease–protease inhibitor imbalance promotes barrier breaches and loss of immunologic tolerance in...

Hitesh S. Deshmukh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

John Erickson, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Antibody structure and function; glycobiology; mechanisms of protective immunity; flow cytometry and T cell biology; pregnancy; fetal tolerance

Tamara Tilburgs, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Mechanisms of maternal-fetal immune tolerance and placental immunity in human pregnancy

Ty D. Troutman, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Disease; gene regulation; immunology; innate immunity; macrophages; myeloid cells