Trainee Research Information
鈥婽he Division of Rheumatology has many engaging options available for trainees who would like to explore research opportunities. These are available to trainees at all levels of prior research experience, including , , , and .
Students accepted in the research track or on a research rotation should complete the .
Research opportunities also exist for house staff/residents, post-doctoral students, and rheumatology fellows. House staff contemplating an academic career are encouraged to pursue one of the research opportunities within the division, prior to applying for the rheumatology fellowship research track (3 year academic-oriented position). Post-doctoral students may be interested in one of our funded Division of Rheumatology positions supported by the NIH T32 mechanism.
Faculty members accepting trainees and their area of scholastic focus include:
- Clinical/Outcomes/Health Services Research
- Quality of Care Interventions
- Spondyloarthritis
- Available for: Graduate and Medical Students, Residents and Post-docs
- Epidemiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
- Translational Research in RA Pathogenesis
- Clinical Trials in RA Prevention
- Available for: Graduate students, Medical Students and Residents
- Translational Research in Mucosal Autoimmunity and Sex Differences in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Pathogenesis
- Available for: Graduate students, Medical Students and Residents
- Translational and basic research
- Available for: Residents
- Translational and Basic Research
- Granzyme K and CD8 T cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis and other rheumatologic diseases
- Available for: Graduate and Medical students, Residents, and Post-docs
- Translational and Basic Research
- Microbiome and mucosal studies in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Spondyloarthritis (SpA)
- Available for: Graduate and Medical Students, Residents and Post-docs
- Translational research
- Clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis
- Interdisciplinary joint biology program
- Diseases registries/databases
- Cellular therapies including bispecific and Car-T therapies for autoimmune diseases.
Ruth Napier, PhD
- Translational and Basic Research
- Mechanisms of autoimmunity: the interface between infection and the immune system
- Blau syndrome, Spondyloarthritis (SpA), autoimmune uveitis, rheumatoid arthritis
- Available for: Graduate and Medical Students, Residents and Post-docs
- Clinical Trials
- Available for: Post Docs
- AI approaches for translational research
- Computational biology and systems immunology for big data
- Single-cell multi-omics data integration for inflammatory disease
- Available for: Graduate and Medical Students, and Postdocs