Associate Professor
University of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Dr. Elena Hsieh earned her MD degree from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in 2008. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2011, and a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Stanford University in 2014. She continued her research and clinical work at Stanford University as an Instructor for an additional year. In 2015, Dr. Hsieh joined the faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, jointly affiliated with the Children’s Hospital of Colorado.
Dr. Hsieh’s lab addresses mechanistic and translational questions in human immunology to enable a deeper understanding of normal immune function, and dysregulated immune processes in immunodeficiency, autoimmunity, and the overlap between the two. Her lab has identified several novel human primary immunoregulatory disorders that lead to severe multi-organ autoimmunity and infectious susceptibility. She is currently leading consortium studies that aim to identify novel mutations that result in immunodeficiency and autoimmunity. She is the Director of the Jeffrey Modell Center for Primary Immunodeficiency, and co-direct the Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Newborn Screen Program, both of which constitute the foundation of the immunodeficiency program at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Her lab has developed mouse models from homologous human mutations to further enlighten underlying disease mechanism. Most recently, in the advent of COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines development, her lab has applied traditional vaccinology immunology tools and single-cell transcriptomic platforms to determine key immunological parameters of vaccine immune response and infection protection in immunocompetent/deficiency children across multiple vaccine platforms.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM PT
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
2:20 PM – 2:45 PM PT
