- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Allergy/Immunology), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Sarah Henrickson is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy/Immunology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, with a faculty appointment at the Perelman School of Medicine. She received her BA from Harvard University in 2001 and her PhD and MD from Harvard Medical School in 2008 and 2011, completing pediatrics residency and allergy and immunology fellowship training at CHOP.
The Henrickson laboratory investigates the role of T cell dysfunction in chronic allergic and inflammatory disease — including pediatric obesity-related asthma — and in rare monogenic primary immunodeficiencies. Her group integrates deep immunophenotyping, single-cell approaches, metabolic characterization, and animal models to identify shared mechanisms of immune dysregulation across common and rare diseases, and to develop precision strategies to retune dysfunctional immune responses.
Dr. Henrickson is a Penn Colton Center FY26 pilot awardee and a senior collaborator within the Institute for Immunology and Immune Health, the CHOP Immune Dysregulation Program, and Penn’s broader pediatric immunology community. Her work anchors a growing translational program bridging pediatric autoimmunity, primary immunodeficiency, and the systems immunology of T cell exhaustion.