Laura F Su - Faculty Biosketch

Laura F Su, M.D. Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology)

Staff Physician, Philadelphia VA

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Department: Medicine

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1f Graduate Group Affiliations 8

Cell and Molecular Biology
Immunology

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311 BRB II/III
31 421 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA

Email:
laurasu@upenn.edu

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13 Education:
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4d Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
21 9 Ph.D c
4d New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2003.
21 9 M.D. c
4d New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2003.
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 53 Intern in Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2003-2004.
24 55 Resident in Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2004-2006.
24 79 Clinical Fellow, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2006-2008.
24 7d Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2008-2011.
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17 Certifications
28 4a American Board of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, 2008.
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Selected Publications

cc Laura F. Su: Decoding the adaptive immune repertoire for disease prediction. Nature Reviews Rheumatology 21: 375–376, April 2025.

11d Laurent Bartolo, Yi-Gen Pan, Yuxuan Lin, Hannah Jung, Chengyang Liu, Nancy R Zhang, Ali Naji, Laura F. Su: Intestinal CD4+ T Cell response to commensal bacteria in Type I Diabetes. FOCiS 2025 Annual Meeting 2025.

158 Laurent Bartolo, Yi-Gen Pan, Yuxuan Lin, Hannah Jung, Chengyang Liu, Nancy R Zhang, Ali Naji, Laura F. Su: Altered Responses of Intestinal CD4+ T Cells to Commensal Bacteria in T1D Patients. HIRN 10-Year Anniversary Symposium: Changing the Course in Type 1 Diabetes 2025.

12a Lea Williams, Ali O. Saber, Ruozhang Xu, Hannah Jung, Silina Awad, Anupama Shahane, Joshua F. Baker. Laura F. Su: Divergent effects of cytomegalovirus and rheumatoid arthritis on senescent CD4+ T cells Biorxiv December 2024.

128 Yi-Gen Pan, Laurent Bartolo, Ruozhang Xu, Bijal Patel, Veronika I Zarnitsyna, Laura F Su: Preservation of Naïve Phenotype CD4+ T Cells After Vaccination Contributes to Durable Immunity. JCI Insight(14), e180667, June 2024.

12e Yi-Gen Pan, Laurent Bartolo, Ruozhang Xu, Bijal Patel, Veronika Zarnitsyna, Laura Su: Long-Lasting CD4+ T Cell Memory After Yellow Fever Virus Vaccination. CSHL-Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System 2024 Notes: Poster.

e6 Afroz S, Bartolo L, Su LF: Pre-Existing T Cell Memory to Novel Pathogens. Immunohorizons 7(7): 543-553, July 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.4049/immunohorizons.2200003.

cb Laura F. Su: Pre-Existing Memory in Vaccine Responses. Keystone Symposia - Vaccinology during and after COVID-19 2023 Notes: Oral.

e7 Laurent Bartolo, Yi-Gen Pan, Sumbul Afroz, the HPAP consortium, Chengyang Liu, Ali Naji, Laura F. Su: T Cell Trafficking and Cross-Reactivity Along the Gut-Islet Axis in Human T1D 50 HIRN 2023 Annual Investigator Meeting 2023 Notes: Oral.

12c Yi-Gen Pan and Laura F. Su: Identification of Human Antigen-Specific T Cells Using Class II MHC Tetramer Staining and Enrichment. Methods in Molecular Biology 2574: 31-40, September 2022 Notes: DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2712-9_3.

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