Dr. Cathryn Nagler

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Cathryn R. Nagler is the Bunning Family Professor in the Biological Sciences Division at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College at the University of Chicago. She graduated with honors from Barnard College, Columbia University, and obtained her PhD from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Nagler did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Immunology) at Harvard Medical School before joining the University of Chicago in 2009. Her research encompasses mechanisms governing oral tolerance and the impact of the microbiome on food allergies. Over the last fifteen years, her work has focused on how commensal bacteria regulate the susceptibility to allergic responses to food. Her lab has proposed that a generational increase in food allergies may be attributed to changes in the function and composition of the commensal microbiome. She has held numerous national and international leadership roles, expressed through her engagement with various scholarly societies. Nagler was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Innovation Leadership Program at the University of Chicago in 2017 and has been recognized among Crain’s Chicago Business Tech Top 50 Women and Notable Women in HealthCare. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists and has received the Foundation Louis M. Mendelson Award Lectureship from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

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