Martin Alexander Kriegel MD/PhD

Assistant Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Rheumatology); Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology)

Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Immunology

Immunobiology

Internal Medicine: Rheumatology

Research Interests

Microbiome; commensals; lymphocytes; autoimmunity; Th17 cells; antiphospholipid syndrome; beta2-glycoprotein; lupus; type 1 diabetes more...

Education

• M.D., Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurn, 2000
• Ph.D., Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurn, 2001

Selected Publications

• Kriegel MA*, Rathinam C, Flavell RA*. Pancreatic islet expression of chemokine CCL2 suppresses autoimmune diabetes via tolerogenic CD11c+ CD11b+ dendritic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109(9):3457-3462. (*corresponding authors)
• Kriegel MA, Sefik E, Hill JA, Wu H-J, Benoist C, Mathis D. Naturally transmitted segmented filamentous bacteria segregate with diabetes protection in NOD mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108(28):11548-53.
• Kriegel MA*, Rathinam C*, Flavell RA. E3 Ubiquitin Ligase GRAIL Controls Primary T Cell Activation and Oral Tolerance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009;106(39) 16770-5. (*equal contribution)

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