Understanding perturbed immunoregulation in chronic inflammatory diseases and manipulating the balance between inflammatory and regulatory immune responses.

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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
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Members of the Immunoregulation Section 2026

From left to right, Madeleine Brown, Md Tajmul, Dhaneshwar Kumar, Melody Zeng, Ben Afzali, Daniel Chauss, Jianping Ma, Luis Trujillo-Ochoa, Madeline Snyder, Didier Portilla

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