- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Dr. Neil D. Romberg is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy/Immunology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and holds the Jeffrey Modell endowed chair of Pediatric Immunology Research, with a faculty appointment at the Perelman School of Medicine. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 2004, completed pediatrics residency at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and allergy and immunology fellowship training at Yale-New Haven Medical Center.
The Romberg laboratory investigates the regulatory mechanisms that enable the immune system to fight infection without injuring the host, with particular focus on patients with primary immunodeficiency (inborn errors of immunity) who are susceptible to both life-threatening infection and autoimmune disease. His group identified novel monogenic forms of agammaglobulinemia caused by PU.1 mutations and continues to define genetic and epigenetic determinants of human immune dysregulation.
Dr. Romberg received the Lady Barbara Colyton Prize for Autoimmune Research at Penn for his outstanding contributions to autoimmune disease research. He is a senior member of the Penn Colton Center for Autoimmunity, the CHOP Immune Dysregulation Program, and the Institute for Immunology and Immune Health, and his work translates rare disease discovery into insights applicable to common autoimmune disorders.