Joseph Edgar Craft, MD
Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Professor of Immunobiology; Section Chief, Rheumatology; Program Director, Investigative Medicine; Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine
Departments & Organizations

Clinical Investigation, Yale Center for (YCCI): Leadership | IMP
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Immunology: Computational Immunology | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Yale Medical Group
Cancer Immunology
Immunobiology
Internal Medicine: Rheumatology | Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
Center for X-Linked Hypophosphatemia, Yale
Immunology and Immunotherapy
Research Interests
Arthritis; Autoimmunity; Cytokines; Diseases and Disorders; Lupus; T Cell Differentiation; T Cells; Tolerance more...
Education
- M.D., University of North Carolina, 1977
Selected Publications
- Craft J. Dissecting the immune cell mayhem that drives lupus pathogenesis. Science Transl. Med. 3, 73ps9 2011. Reprint at: http://stm.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/3/73/73ps9?ijkey=Ucmy6RX..HbFY&keytype=ref&siteid=scitransmed; full text at: http://stm.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/3/73/73ps9?ijkey=Ucmy6RX..HbFY&keytype=ref&siteid=scitransmed
- Poholek AC, Hansen K, Hernandez S, Eto D, Chandele A, Weinstein J, Dong X, Odegard JM, Kaech SM, Dent AL, Crotty S, Craft J. In vivo regulation of Bcl6 and T follicular helper cell development. J Immunol 185:313-236, 2010. Epub 2010 Jun 2. NIHMSID: NIHMS 170734.
- DiPlacido L, Craft J. Emerging from the shadows: follicular helper T cells in autoimmunity. Arthritis Rheum 62:6–8, 2010. NIHMSID: NIHMS 158304.


