Kevin O'Connor, PhD

Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor is an associate professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine. He earned a BS in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his PhD in biochemistry from Tufts Medical School. He took his post-doctoral training in immunology at Harvard Medical School, where he also spent several years on the faculty as an assistant professor. His investigative interests are in human translational immunology and neurology. He and his group are specifically interested in defining the mechanisms by which B cells, and the antibodies they produce, affect tissue damage in autoimmunity. To this end, they are engaged in understanding how particular B cell subsets initiate and sustain autoimmunity.