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Faculty

Autoimmunity

Bibiana Bielekova, MD
Dr. Bielekova's research program focuses on studying the immunoregulatory mechanisms between innate and adaptive immune systems, especially as it relates to autoimmunity and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and on the development of novel therapeutic approaches for MS.
Robert Colbert, MD, PhD
Dr. Colbert's laboratory studies immunological mechanisms underlying pathogenesis of auto-inflammatory diseases, in particular the role of HLA-B27 in susceptibility to spondyloarthropathies. Effects of protein misfolding on antigen presenting cells and the innate immune response are being studied.
Fred Finkelman, MD
Dr. Finkelman is interested in cytokine biology, including regulation of cytokine responses and cytokine roles in allergy, asthma, autoimmunity, and infectious diseases.
David Glass, MD
Dr. Glass' research focus is autoimmunity, especially of the chronic rheumatic diseases of childhood with the application of high throughput genomic and functional genomic methodologies.
Christopher Karp, MD
Dr. Karp's lab focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for the regulation and dysregulation of immune responses in infectious and autoimmune human diseases.
Jonathan D. Katz, PhD
Dr. Katz is conducting studies on the role of T cells in autoimmune diabetes through the application of standard immunological methods to transgenic and gene-targeted NOD mice and through the use of functional genomics and proteomics.
Joerg Koehl, MD
Dr. Koehl's laboratory is focused on the role of the complement system in bridging innate to adaptive immunity. The projects center on models of allergic asthma and autoimmune diseases.
Susan Thompson, PhD
Dr. Thompson's research interests span both genetic and functional genomic studies of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) to advance the understainding of the causes and mechanisms of disease pathogenesis. A genome-wide screen for JRA susceptibility traits has been completed and defined several regions for linkage mapping and candidate gene analysis.