Archives: “Experimental Platforms & Models”

A Growing Network Takes Stock: Highlights from the 2026 Colton Consortium Symposium

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Global leaders in autoimmune research gathered for the 2025 Colton Consortium Symposium last month, sharing breakthroughs from foundational science to translational therapies and forging collaborations to improve patient lives worldwide.

What a “Silenced” Chromosome Can Tell Us About Autoimmunity

https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/what-a-silenced-chromosome-can-tell-us-about-autoimmunity/

Penn Colton Center researcher Montserrat Anguera reveals how B cells maintain X chromosome inactivation, and how its breakdown drives lupus, offering new insight into female-biased autoimmune disease and treatment targets.

Carla R. Nowosad, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health Dr. Carla R. Nowosad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Translational […]

Jun Wang, PhD

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Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health Dr. Jun Wang is an Associate Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He […]

Katsuo Kurabayashi, PhD

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Department Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU Tandon School of EngineeringProfessor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Katsuo Kurabayashi is Professor and Chair of Mechanical and […]

Morgan Grams, MD, PhD

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Dr. Morgan E. Grams is a nephrologist and PhD-trained epidemiologist. She is the Susan and Morris Mark Professor of Medicine at New York University, where she helps lead the Division […]

Jordan E. Axelrad, MD, MPH

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Dr. Jordan E. Axelrad, is Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at NYU Langone Health, and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, […]

Mark Yarmarkovich, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health Dr. Mark Yarmarkovich leads a laboratory at NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center focused on developing next-generation […]

Jian Xu, PhD

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Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University Dr. Jian Xu is a Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a […]

Tomokazu Sumida, MD, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University Dr. Tomokazu Sumida is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine and a clinician-scientist […]