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Theresa Lu, MD, PhD

Hospital for Special Surgery
NEW YORK, New York, United States

Theresa Lu holds the St. Giles Chair for Research in the HSS Research Institute and is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Professor Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is also currently Co-Director of the Weill Cornell PhD Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis. Dr. Lu received her MD and PhD from Yale University, trained in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and completed her fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of California San Francisco. She completed her PhD training with Joseph Madri at Yale and her postdoc training with Jason Cyster at UCSF. She has received numerous awards, including the American College of Rheumatology Young Investigator Award, Weill Cornell Teaching and Mentoring Award, and induction into the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Henry Kunkel Society for immune disease research. The Lu Lab seeks to understand the mechanistic basis of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, focusing on photosensitivity and the ways by which the state of the skin modulates draining lymph node (auto)immune responses. Because immune cell function is intertwined with tissue function, our approach to studying disease is to ask how immune cell-stromal interactions in skin, lymph nodes, and the lymphatic connections between them contribute to health and disease.

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