- Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Eline Luning Prak is a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Human Immunology Core of the Penn Center for AIDS Research and the Abramson Cancer Center. She received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania and completed residency training in clinical pathology at Penn.
Dr. Luning Prak’s laboratory is a national leader in B cell repertoire analysis, applying next-generation sequencing, single-cell technologies, and computational tools to dissect antibody diversification, autoreactive B cell selection, and the development of pathogenic B cell clones in systemic lupus erythematosus and other autoimmune diseases. Her group has helped establish internationally adopted standards for high-throughput immunoglobulin repertoire profiling.
Through her direction of the Human Immunology Core, Dr. Luning Prak has built a translational infrastructure that supports investigators across Penn in deeply phenotyping the human immune system. She is a senior faculty leader within the Penn Colton Center for Autoimmunity, the Institute for Immunology and Immune Health, and the Penn Center for AIDS Research, and her work is central to Penn’s leadership in B cell–focused autoimmune disease research.
