Chief
Molecular Development of the Immune System Section
Laboratory of Immunology
United States of America
Dr. Lenardo graduated with a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. from Washington University, St. Louis. He performed clinical work in internal medicine and research at the University of Iowa and received postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He established an independent research unit in the Laboratory of Immunology in 1989 and became a senior investigator and section chief in 1994. Dr. Lenardo serves on several editorial boards and has given numerous lectures around the world on his work on the molecular regulation of immune homeostasis. His work focuses on lymphocyte apoptosis, autoimmunity, and genomics of the immune system. He was one of the founders of the NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Scholars program for doctoral training and the NIH M.D./Ph.D. partnership program.
Genetic diseases of immune homeostasis and autoimmunity