Dr. Lisa Barcellos

Biography

Lisa Barcellos is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. With a dual degree in PhD and MPH, her research focuses on public health and genetic epidemiology, particularly in the context of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis. She specializes in identifying genetic factors that predispose individuals to these diseases and how these factors modulate disease expression and clinical progression. Her work involves comprehensive studies of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) variation in autoimmune diseases, characterizing the autoimmune-prone multiple sclerosis phenotype with associated risk factors, and examining parent-of-origin maternal-child immunogenetic relationships in autoimmunity. Additionally, Barcellos conducts population-based studies to investigate genetic, social, and environmental risk factors contributing to autoimmune diseases and applies novel analytical methodologies to explore gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in autoimmunity.

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