Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Class of 2009

Marko A. Radic, PhD
University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
Class of 2009

Changchun Xiao, PhD
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Class of 2009

Anne Davidson, MD
Feinstein Medical Research Institute, Manhasset, NY
Class of 2009

Stephen H. Clarke, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Class of 2011

Thomas Rothstein, MD, PhD
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, NY
Class of 2012

Eline Luning Prak, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Class of 2012

William Kovacs, MD
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Class of 2012

Yufeng Peng, PhD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Class of 2012

Alexander Tarakhovsky, MD, PhD
The Rockefeller University, NY
Class of 2012

Matthias Wabl, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Class of 2012

Randall Davis, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
Class of 2013

Roberta Pelanda, PhD
National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
Class of 2013

One possibility: B cells are to blame. These cells mature in the bone marrow and develop into cells that make antibodies when stimulated.

Jennifer Anolik, MD, PhD
University of Rochester, NY
Class of 2007

Loren Erickson, PhD
University of Virginia, VA
Class of 2007

Edmund J. Gosselin, PhD
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Class of 2001

Thereza Imanishi-Kari, PhD
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Class of 2006

Thomas Rothstein, MD, PhD
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, NY
Class of 2007

Martin Weigert, PhD
University of Chicago, IL
Class of 2001

Barbara J. Vilen, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Class of 2001

Hidde Ploegh, PhD
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Class of 2008

Other possibilities being explored: the lupus immune system makes its tragic wrong turns because of

• signaling issues
• dendritic cell activity
• other general immune system problems