Cathryn Nagler
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PhD, immunology, 1986, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Cathryn Nagler | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | BSc, biology, 1979, Barnard College PhD, immunology, 1986, New York University Grossman School of Medicine |
| Thesis | Immunoregulation of an experimental model of autoimmunity: collagen-induced arthritis (1986) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Harvard Medical School |
Cathryn R. Nagler is an American immunologist. She is the Bunning Family Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, the Department of Pathology, and the college at the University of Chicago. Nagler is also the co-founder and president of the startup company ClostraBio, Inc.
In 2004, Nagler and her colleagues discovered that peanuts provoked anaphylaxis only in mice with a mutated TLR4 receptor, not in genetically related strains with a normal TLR4. Later, Nagler and her colleagues identified significant differences between the gut bacteria of infants who had an allergy to cow's milk and healthy infants.
Growing up, Nagler broke out in hives whenever she ate eggs and reacted to penicillin.[1] She graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University in 1979 with her Bachelor of Science degree in biology and her PhD in immunology from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Following her PhD, Nagler completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]