Lab Members

Barbara Rehermann received her M.D. degree from Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany with an experimental doctoral thesis on signal transduction in lymphocyte activation.  She conducted postgraduate clinical training in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, and a research fellowship in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, studying the immunopathogenesis of HBV infection.   Since 2004 she is a tenured senior investigator in the Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK and chief of the Immunology Section.

Ji Hoon Oh received his Ph.D. degree from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea studying virus-induced type I interferon in NK cell-mediated tumor surveillance. His research interest is the regulation of immune responses by the microbiome.

Jun Seishima received both his MD and PhD degrees from Kanazawa University, Japan and completed training in gastroenterology and hepatology at the same university. Currently, he studies tissue-specific immune responses to viral infections.

Shahar Azar received his Ph.D. degree from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel studying the endocannaboid system in fatty liver disease. As a postdoctoral fellow he is interested in understanding the effect of microbiota on host metabolism.

Tomoaki Yoshida is a gastroenterologist/hepatologist from Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree for research on the role of microbiota in liver disease carcinogenesis. During his postdoctoral fellowship, he is interested in studying the role of microbiota in liver disease.

Keisuke Fukutomi is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist who received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, Japan. At Osaka University, he studied capsid allosteroic modulators and innate immune responses in hepatitis B virus infection. At NIH he is conducting translational studies on immune responses to hepatitis B and D viruses in clinical studies.

Mary McCarthy joined the section as a postbaccalaureate student after receiving her BA degree from Northwestern University. She studies adaptive immune responses to hepatitis and coronaviruses.

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Professor and Chair, Dept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School
Hannover, Germany.

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Associate Professor, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.

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Professeur des écoles, Académie de Paris, Paris, France.

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Lecturer and attending (academic physician scientist), First Medical Clinic and Policlinic, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.

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Internist, Praxis Polonius, Hille, Germany.

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Head, Rehabilitation and Rheumatology, RehaClinic AG, Zuerich, Switzerland.

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Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Bari, Italy.

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Lecturer and attending (academic physician scientist), Martin-Zeitz Center for Rare Diseases and Center for Internal Medicine, First Medical Clinic, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

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Director, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shin-Yurigaoka General Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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Professor, Graduate School of Medical Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Director, The Center for Viral Immunology, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

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Chair of Medicine, Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospitals with Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Lead, Liver Immunology Group, Storr Liver Centre, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.

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Internist, University of Cologne, Germany.

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Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Scientific Writer, Cactus Communications, Mumbai, India.

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Research Scientist, University de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

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Lecturer and Attending (academic physician scientist), Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany.

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Professor, Graduate School of Medical Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.

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Associate Director of Vaccines and Prevention, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD.

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Program Director, Division of Skin and Rheumatic Diseases, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD.

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Clinical Fellow, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Germany.

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Clinical Fellow and research group leader, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Freiburg, Germany.

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Clinical fellow and research group leader, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany.

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Clinical Fellow, Clinic for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany.

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Instructor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

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Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medical Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

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Professor, Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Diabetology, GRN-Klinik Weinheim, Germany.

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Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA.

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Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

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Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, CA

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Research Associate, University of Madiscon-Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC.

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Assistant Professor, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Millersville University, PA.

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Medical Advisor, Pierre Fabre Pharma, Freiburg, Germany

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Senior Scientist, AbbVie, North Chicago, IL.

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Instructor in Emergency Medicine and Faculty and Director of Global Ultrasound, Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

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Resident, Ophthalmology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

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Resident in Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA.

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Resident Physician, St. Joseph Hospital, Denver, CO.

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MD PhD Student, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

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PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.

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Resident, Neurology, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester, MI.

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Student, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID.

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Medical Student, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA.

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Postbac IRTA student, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD.

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Medical Student, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY.

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Medical Student, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.

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Medical Student, Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lynchburg, VA.

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Graduate Student, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MI.

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Medical Student, New York University, New York, NY.