Faculty

Laura Vella, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Department: Pediatrics

Graduate Group Affiliations

Immunology

Contact information

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3615 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Publications

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Education:
BA (Major: Biology, Minor: English)
University of Delaware, 2002.
PhD (Immunology)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2008.
MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2010.
MSTR (Translational Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2019.

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Selected Publications

Conrey PE, Denu L, O'Boyle KC, Rozich I, Green J, Maslanka J, Lubin JB, Duranova T, Haltzman BL, Gianchett L, Oldridge DA, De Luna N, Vella LA, Allman D, Spergel J, Tanes C, Bittinger K, Henrickson SE, Silverman MA: IgA deficiency destabilizes homeostasis toward intestinal microbes and increases systemic immune dysregulation. Science Immunology May 2023.

Wu VH, Nguyen S, Nordin JML, Joy J, Mampe F, del Rio Estrada PM, Torres-Ruiz F, González-Navarro M, Luna-Villalobos YA, Ávila-Ríos S, Reyes-Terán G, Tebas P, Montaner LJ, Bar KJ, Vella LA*, Betts MR*: Profound phenotypic and epigenetic heterogeneity of the HIV-1 infected CD4+ T cell reservoir. Nature Immunology December 2022.

Herati RS#*, Knorr DA#, Vella LA, Silva LV, Chilukuri L, Apostolidis SA, Huang AC, Muselman A, Manne S, Kuthuru O, Staupe RP, Adamski SA, Kannan S, Kurupati RK, Ertl HCJ, Wong JLL, Bournazos S, McGettigan S, Schuchter LM, Kotecha RR, Funt S, Voss MH, Motzer RJ, Lee CH, Bajorin DF, Mitchell TC, Ravetch JV, Wherry EJ*: PD-1 directed immunotherapy alters Tfh and humoral immune responses to seasonal influenza vaccine. Nature Immunology July 2022.

Apostolidis SA, Sarkar A, Giannini HM, Goel RR, Mathew D, Suzuki A, Baxter AE, Greenplate AR, Alanio C, Abdel-Hakeem M, Oldridge DA, Giles JR, Wu JE, Chen Z, Huang YJ, Ajinkya, P, Manne S, Kuthuru O, Dougherty J, Weiderhold B, Weisman, AR, Ittner CAG, Dunbar D, Frank I, Huang AC, Vella LA, The UPenn COVID Processing Unit, Reilly JP, Hensley SE, Rauova L, Zhao L, Meyer NJ, Poncz M, Abrams CA, Wherry EJ: Signaling through FcgRIIA and the C5a-C5aR pathway mediates platelet hyperactivation in COVID-19. Frontiers in Immunology March 2022.

Downes KJ, Sharova A, Boge CLK, Vader D, Mitrou M, Hayes M, Galetaki DM, Gianchetti L, Vella LA, Li Y.: CMV infection and management among pediatric solid organ transplant recipients. Pediatr Transplant January 2022.

Diorio C, Shraim R, Vella LA, Giles JR, Baxter AE, Oldridge DA, Canna SW, Henrickson SE, McNerney KO, Balamuth F, Burudpakdee C, Lee J, Leng T, Farrell A, Lambert MP, Sullivan KE, Wherry EJ, Teachey DT, Bassiri H, Behrens EM. : Proteomic Profiling of MIS-C Patients Reveals Heterogeneity Relating to Interferon Gamma Dysregulation and Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction. Nature Communications 12(1), December 2021.

Goel RR, Painter MM, Apostolidis SA, Mathew D, Meng W, Rosenfeld AM, Lundgreen KA, Reynaldi A, Khoury DS, Pattekar A, Gouma S, Kuri-Cervantes L, Hicks P, Dysinger S, Hicks A, Sharma H, Herring S, Korte S, Baxter AE, Oldridge DA, Giles JR, Weirick ME, McAllister CM, Awofolaju M, Tanenbaum N, Drapeau EM, Dougherty J, Long S, D'Andrea K, Hamilton JT, McLaughlin M, Williams JC, Adamski S, Kuthuru O; UPenn COVID Processing Unit‡, Frank I, Betts MR, Vella LA, Grifoni A, Weiskopf D, Sette A, Hensley SE, Davenport MP, Bates P, Luning Prak ET, Greenplate AR, Wherry EJ: mRNA Vaccination Induces Durable Immune Memory to SARS-CoV-2 with Continued Evolution to Variants of Concern. Science 364(6572), December 2021.

Vella LA, Rowley AH: Current Insights into the Pathophysiology of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. Current Pediatrics Reports October 2021.

Bange EM*, Han NA*, Wileyto P, Kim JY, Gouma S, Robinson J, Greenplate AR, Porterfield F, Owoyemi O, Naik K, Zhen C, Galantino M, Weisman AR, Ittner CAG, Kugler EM, Baxter AE, Oniyide O, Agyekum RS, Dunn TG, Jones TK, Giannini HM, Weirick ME, McAllister CM, Babady NE, Kumar A, Widman AJ, DeWolf S, Boutemine SR, Roberts C, Budzik KR, Tollett S, Wright C, Perloff T, Sun L, Mathew D, Giles JR, Oldridge DA, Wu JE, Alanio C, Adamski S, Garfall AL, Vella LA, Kerr SJ, Cohen JV, Oyer RA, Massa R, Maillard IP, The UPenn COVID Processing Unit, Maxwell KN, Reilly JP, Maslak PG, Vonderheide RH, Wolchok JD, Hensley SE, Wherry EJ, Meyer N, DeMichele AM, Vardhana SA*, Mamtani R*, Huang AC*: CD8 T cells compensate for impaired humoral immunity in COVID-19 patients with hematologic cancer. Nature Medicine July 2021.

Anderson EM, Goodwin EC, Verma A, Arevalo CP, Bolton MJ, Weirick ME, Gouma S, McAllister CM, Christensen SR, Weaver J, Hicks P, Manzoni TB, Oniyide O, Ramage H, Mathew D, Baxter AE, Oldridge DA, Greenplate AR, Wu JE, Alanio C, D’Andrea K, Kuthuru O, Dougherty J, Pattekar A, Kim J, Han N, Apostolidis SA, Huang AC, Vella LA, Kuri-Cervantes L, Pampena, MB, The UPenn COVID Processing Unit, Wherry EJ, Meyer NJ, Cherry S, Bates P, Rader DJ, Hensley SE: Seasonal human coronavirus antibodies are boosted upon SARS-CoV-2 infection but not associated with protection. Cell April 2021.